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I have to admit, I'm a point and shoot type of person who likes a small digital camera that I can carry in the pocket of my jeans or in my purse so it's always handy. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money on a camera and have to spend hundreds on extra lenses. My Casio camera serves me just fine in many circumstances. I take a lot of people pictures and pictures at parties and get-togethers. But there were always those times when I was in a beautiful location and wanted something that would do a good job with pictures of mountains, lakes and other landscape features. Or I wanted to take a photo of our Christmas tree at night with the lights in a dark room and I just could never really capture the shot. I often wanted to take pictures of the squirrels or a woodpecker on the tree but with a 3x optical zoom you just can't get "up close and personal". This camera will do all that and more. It will also do automatic, point and shoot photos, just like my little point and shoot camera.
I hate to read manuals and instructions. But with this camera it's something you just have to set aside some time and pretty much read through the well organized little manual that comes with it. It's easy enough reading and well organized with references to page numbers describing each feature and cross referenced well. Perhaps someone with experience on other SLR cameras or more complicated cameras would find this camera intuitive, but I had to sit down a study a bit before really getting into all the features. Once I had the camera set up and tried the different features and settings it was easy enough to do, but there is a little learning curve. The good news is there are many more things I can do with this camera than I ever imagined.
With other cameras I've owned I could take macro photos of things like flowers or food. With this camera I can take a super macro of not only the flower, but the bee on the flower and the hair on his legs! With other cameras low light photos were just so-so. With this camera you can take photos in very low light which I find myself using more and more, now that I have a camera that will handle it. The 20x zoom is nothing short of amazing. This is great for taking photos of outdoor critters or spying on your neighbor's gardener. It's almost like having a pair of binoculars and being able to capture it on digital film. You can take great movies with stereo sound. It's so much easier than getting out the video camera every time you want to take a short movie of the dog doing something cute or your neighbor's kid doing something stupid. There are some special scene settings that are a quick way of setting up the camera for different types of photos. I've had very good results using these and look at all the different circumstances they cover: You have settings for portraits, landscape, night scenes or snapshots, sports, indoor, sunsets, foliage, snow, beach, fireworks (can't wait to try this one out), aquarium, ISO 3200, color accent and color swap.
The flip-out and rotating 2.5-inch LCD screen is a feature I love and I haven't seen it on any other camera in this class. It makes it simple to see what you're taking from any angle and is nice because you can tilt it out of the sun. I find all the buttons, built in flash and controls easy to use and I can re-set it quickly for different types of circumstances. I really like the stitch assist for taking panorama shots that I can later stitch together on my computer into one wide panoramic image. There are so many more settings and things that you can do, just too many to list here.
The camera will definitely not fit in the pocket of my jeans but the weight and size aren't bad. I bought the Carrying Case / Shoulder Bag for the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi, PowerShot S5 IS, Powershot SX1 IS, SX10 IS case which is perfect for this camera. I'm posting a short video showing the case and just a few features of the camera. It's too bad I couldn't use this camera to take the video. The close-ups would have been a lot clearer than what I could do with my video camera. I thought of including some photos taken with the camera on the video, but with the compression needed to fit the videos on this website the wouldn't do them justice. Even the photos posted by other reviewers on this site, as amazing as they are, look even better when you see them on your own computer or printed.
I did a lot of research on cameras and then I hesitated for a long time, wondering if I would use it enough to justify the cost. I shouldn't have waited. This is an amazing camera and one that will keep me happy for a long, long time.

















1) It takes awesome pictures on auto. I used the auto setting almost all the time I used this camera.
2) It has lots of preset modes, such as portrait, landscape, sport, macro, and night portrait. And if you go to scene mode there are about 10 others! One I thought was really cool is a feature that lets you select a color in your photo and it takes the shades of that color and turns everything else black and white. The macro and super macro settings take amazing pictures!!
3) It's a great step between point-and-shoots and SLRs. There are custom modes you can experiment with, and there is more room for creativity because there are more settings to choose from than there are in the majority of point-and-shoot cameras.
4) The overall image quality I found to be better than point and shoots I've used.
Other great qualities:
I absolutely loved the swivel screen. I'm pretty short so it helped a lot when I wanted to hold the camera up and get a shot from higher than eye level. It's also great for getting pictures at ground level and all different angles. I would suggest that when you're storing the camera and when you're carrying it to turn the screen so that the screen part faces in toward the camera body. I didn't do that and I have some smudge-like scratches on mine now.
The video was something I really liked. I got a dSLR recently that does not have video and I have really missed it. The video quality isn't great, but it's still really nice to have.
The 10 megapixels make great pictures. My camera before that had 6.1 and the dSLR I got has 6 and I miss the 10 megapixels. I could take a picture, crop it quite a bit in Photoshop, and the image would still be very crisp.
If you're considering this over an SLR, keep in mind that this camera will not give you the control that an SLR will. It is much more difficult to manually focus. But if you're not quite ready to spend the money on lenses and things, this is a great choice!



