I am female and bought this camera to take to fiji (imagestation.com) for landscape pics in auto its fantastic point and shoot. However, at the family reunion all my people pictures were blurred and out of focus. why? you have to hold down the shoot button halfway to get the red square box that tells you its focused and then push the button all the way down for a fantastic picture. If I had read the book duhhhhhhhh! I would have known this. The only problem i have is that others cannot use my camera when I go on trips I am never in the picture, its confusing for others to use instantly.