I just got this camera and it's got great detail in the pictures. I put my daughters picture as the background picture on my laptop and you can literally sit there and count the eyebrows hairs on her! It is easy to use, lightweight and its very easy to download the pictures using the software and usb cable that comewith the camera. The only thing I would like to change about it is the zoom isn't too much, only 3x and the videos you take are so huge you can't email them. They have a compact version of the video you can take but then its so small when you send it you can barely see anything. And one of the reasons i got the camera was to send grandparents little short video clips which isn't really working for me. But as far as taking pics its a great camera