I bought this camera in preparation for a sightseeing trip I took to China. I've never owned a camera before and it was **easy for me to use** this one. I still have to learn how to use the manual settings, but it **took some really good pictures** even just on the auto and no-flash settings. The pictures looked so nice that several people on the trip with me who saw how the pictures looked asked me to burn a cd for them even though they were taking their own pictures with their own digital cameras.
It is **not too bulky** and **not too heavy**.
My favorite pictures are the **landscapes**, **portraits**, **photos of water**, and **night lights**.
The **battery life** was wonderful. I had the camera on most of the time every day, reviewed the photos frequently, charged the battery every other night in hotel rooms, and I never ran out of battery at an inconvenient time. I charged the battery without a converter in China, which has 220V power as opposed to America's 120V, and the higher power did not have any negative effects.
These good things far outweigh the bad things, which are few but worth mentioning for those who are considering buying this camera.
As some other people mentioned, there does seem to be a **slight warp** in the corners of the photo sometimes, but I can't tell if this is because the subject moved or if the angle was weird for the photo or something. It isn't noticable, however, unless it was someone's face.
Carrying the camera around my neck by the strap all day for twelve days gave me **rope burn**. Just a caution.
The photos that DID NOT turn out very well were **portraits in dim lighting** and **photos of moving objects**. This camera does not take very good pictures from a moving vehicle like a bus or taxi, and photos taken in dim lighting were either blown out by the flash or blurry without it. It may be that I just haven't learned how to use the settings well enough to prevent this, however.
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