We wanted to upgrade from our 1 MP camera and have been looking at the Minolta Dimage series for several months. We finally bought a Kodak DX3900 and it was an awful camera! We were able to get our money back and we immediately ordered the Minolta Dimage S404. We got it just in time for our Colorado vacation and the pictures are awesome! We now have beautiful mountain pictures that we can enlarge and print. I've already done some printing and the pictures look like 35mm photos. I have read that some people complain about having to process the pictures through special software. We tried this processing, but didn't see a difference. We have very vivid color just using our regular photo editor. It isn't time consuming to use the Minolta software though. I would highly recommend this camera to anyone. It's great for point and shoot and gives you more professional settings if you want to use them. We've had great luck with the auto settings so far.