We bought this abt two weeks ago and since then have been itching to use this. Need to carefully understand the functions to use it to its full potential. But I had some nice moments where we both went aha! The macro is my fav setting. I was awed by some of the pics in the sample images and realised it is very easy to spend an hour with this camera and nt realise it. It would be great with a tripod, coz it has a shaky camera icon which shows unstability and the pic then arguably doesnt look that good. Else so far we have nothing but praise. It looks pretty good too. before this we had all canon cameras, A60, A70 adn then have also used A30 I think.