Good For Day, Bad for Night!

For a compact consumer camera I have been impressed with what I've been able to do with it. During the day it takes very good photos. The photos have been bright, clear with good color quailty. However, at night or in very low light conditions is where this camera fails. Especially if you have conflicting light sources. Pictures come out completely dark and blurred, even with a flash. Indoors photos haven't come out so well either. I have had to edit many of these photos in photoshop to salvage them, but then they come out over pixelated. Really, who wants to spend all their time editing? Action photos came out decently a bit blurred at certain points but all in all not too bad. Macros I found a bit tricky, I haven't been able to get quite as close as I want before the camera just blurs out. Also when taking a macros you need to use the LCD display mode instead of the viewfinder to line up the shot correctly, but this is common in most consumer digital cameras. Once you get the hang of this though it will take average macros. The biggest frustration I have had with this camera is it's not really made to take rapid fire shots and it is a bit slow. When I tryed to do this it took 3 or 4 in a row and then suddenly stopped for 10 to 15 seconds to process, very frustrating especially if your trying to take photos of something like a sports game. However, I have learned that if you push the button in half-way it will set up and stay that way for a good 30 seconds or more which allows you to take instant shot photos when the time is right. This takes a bit of finesseing to get it right. The one thing I've really liked is that it does have a good zoom range for a small camera.

If what your looking for is simply a pocket size camera for casual photos and family snapshots then this is a good camera for the money. However, if your looking to take serious photos then this is not the camera for you. You will only be frustrated with it's limitations.