Don't be put off by bad reviews. Any camera can be a lemon, but mine has worked perfectly and was well under half price, so lots of camera for cheap. The 21mm wide angle is really handy creatively, or just for cramming in lots of people or other subject matter, and the 12x zoom covers a lot of range. The touch screen is intuitive and amazingly sharp (1,152,000 dots, the highest resolution around, and it's 3.5" so it's huge!) I've take some stunning hand-held flowing water shots at 1/6 of a second (that's right, 1/6th of a second!) and the image stabilization works beautifully. Those micro-SD cards are so tiny, but they hold 122 superfine shots on a 1 GB card even at the highest resolution of 14 megapixels. I shoot most of mine at the "fine setting" at 5megapixels resolution and can get over 600 shots on that same card! (Though I seldom wait for more than two dozen or so before I put them on the computer, but for travel that capacity would be handy.) This is my first touch screen unit, and I love the touch screen, much easier to use than a button menu camera. If you use a smart phone, you'll find this camera is a breeze.
I bought the camera for it's wide-angle capability and it's long zoom range, thus, It's a great landscape camera. I'm buying a twin WB 210 to use for stereo (3D) action photography, a fun specialty niche I'm enjoying.
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