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I don't know where to start this camera is so good. I bought it to replace my old Kodak point and shoot. I am neither a professional nor an enthusiastic amateur. I just want to be able to take good pictures quickly with as little thought as possible. This does that. Key features are TWO magic button modes - one is the straight forward point and shoot and the other does even more to prevent wobble or over-exposure. It does have a panoramic option and I have read the instructions and it seems easy to use but I haven't - yet. It also has other options - but again I haven't used those. In magic mode it recognised the type of shoot (night, portrait, scenic etc) very quickly and set appropriately. It was also very easy to switch from still to video - so much so I have taken a lot more video than usually. The battery life is excellent - it did 3 Florida theme parks plus lots of play back before needing a charge. However I had bought and charged a spare battery just in case. You can get bargains - I bought a Maxsimafoto one which was much cheaper than Sony (off Amazon) and just as good. I did use a very good quality SD card as this camera takes HD video. I bought a Memzi Ultima Pro SDHC card (off Amazon) which are recommended for these cameras. It did work very well but of course I can't tell you how another would have done. I have reviewed and downloaded my pictures and videos and they are excellent quality - even the sound. At a recent car show my son (aged 10) also used this and found it really easy and took some great photos. I have also used the wifi connection which is really useful but as I take a lot of photos I tend to take the card out and insert into my printer for transfer. This camera is light but feels well made. The controls are not too fiddly to work with long nails. It sits in the hand comfortably ready to use but is not so small you feel you have a toy. My only issue is the review and playback and I'm certain that's user error! It does have a lot of options on review which makes it harder to just look at the picture and then those before.

Being a bit of a gadget fetishist I have owned way too many compact cameras in my time. Of all of them this is the best small compact camera that I have tried. The real selling point of this camera is it's size and weight. It is a truly compact camera and even for it's diminutive size it is very light. Packed into this small camera is a long zoom lens and a host of features. However, this would all count for nothing if it didn't deliver in terms of picture quality. Overall, considering the type of camera and it's price the image quality is very good indeed. This is primarily a great camera for outdoor use. Its size and weight make it incredibly portable and the image quality in bright light is very good. To top it off it is easy to use (the auto modes generally do very well) and fast in operation. The quality is good from wide angle to full telephoto and that zoom lens really does reach a long way. Battery life seems pretty good and I really liked that I could charge the bettery in the camera using a standard phone charger. This meant that I could charge it from a cigarette lighter in the car on days out. You do need to bear in mind the weak points of a camera such as this. Personally, I do not mark the camera down because of these issues as they are inherent in the type of camera. For a very small, long zoom camera I have not found anything better. Firstly, this camera has a small sensor (although typical or compacts) combined with a rather "slow" lens (again this is typical of compacts). Slow in this context refers to how much light it lets through not how fast it focusses. Essentially what this means is that the results you get will deteriorate rapidly as the available light levels fall. Indoor photos without the flash for example, will not look anywhere near as good as daytime outdoor shots. However, to put this into context, to get a camera with a larger sensor and faster lens that will do well for indoor lower light shots (like the Canon S120, Canon G7x or Sony RX100) you will have to spend considerably more for a heavier, larger camera and give up that long zoom range. Secondly, this camera is designed for the beginner and for automatic use. Because of it's small size it does not have much in terms of external controls such as exposure compensation. The result is that if you do know what you are doing and want to change something you will have to dive into the menus to change that setting. Again this is inherent in this type of camera. Note that although this camera does not provide any flash compensation (an annoying oversight) the flash seems to be much better than that for the previous generation, the WX300, which had a tendency to washout anything too close to the camera.. The only specific issue with the camera for me is that it's screen is not very visible in bright light. (Not ideal for a camera that I really only use outdoors.) I solved this by buying a non-reflective phone screen protector and cutting it down to size for the camera. This only cost a couple of pounds.

Fantastic little point and shoot camera. Excellent macro capability for my horticultural work. Many other functions to suit most situations. You can't adjust F-stops and aperture manually, but why waste precious photo opps doing that? Buy the biggest memory card it'll take. You'll have more capacity than you need. Image quality is superb. My only gripe and for most cameras nowadays is there's no optical view finder, just an electronic one which is useless in bright sunlight. Get round that by doing a few shots that usually capture the subject.

This is a very good camera at a very good price.

La sto rendendo perché ha smesso di funzionare. L:ho acquistata usata come nuova. Però fa delle foto molto belle in automatico. Inoltre anche le foto interne senza flash vengono bene se selezionate l'apposita scena. In questo caso la fotocamera "ferma" la vostra mano, poiché la fotocamera apre per circa 1 secondo il diaframma. Bella la luna fotografata con lo zoom. Una volta ottenuto il rimborso ricompero la stessa oppure quella con zoom maggiore. Consiglio l'acquisto. Ottimo come sempre il servizio Amazon.

Lo mejor, el wifi. Quizás un poco lenta en procesar las fotos, y muy pocas opciones manuales. Pero hace fotos de muy buena calidad, y con un gran zoom. Tiene una pega, el flash está en el lado del disparador, y si no te das cuenta lo tapas con la mano... las fotos de noche regular.

Camera came with a ?European? AC Adapter. Will need to purchase separate AC Adapter for use in the US :(

La camera fue un regalo. Que gran sorpresa encontrarnos en la caja el cable para la recarga de la batería con un enchufe inglés, es decir que no se puede utilizar en España. Es necesario comprar otro cable o un adaptador. Como la persona que recibió el regalo se marchó, tampoco he podido devolver la camera. Muy desagradable. En un futuro me lo pienso muy bien antes de comprar cualquier cosa que no es para mi, es decir que puedo devolver.