I bought this to bridge the gap until I get my DSLR thinking, best of both worlds, point and shoot features and creative freedom. Still (non moving) shots were decent, point and shoot shots were okay to but to be honest my old cheap Kodak hundred dollar point and shoot took better shots. The thing that really made me send the camera back was low light shots with any motion at all in any mode were terrible. I experimented in all creative modes and pre set modes, low light shots were all awful: blurred and a lot of noise even still shots with flash off had tons of noise. I just bought the Canon XTi DSLR...an amazing camera!!!...All I can say is Perfect! Save your money, pay $300 more and get the Canon XTi. It's like the same size as the Lumix and you will be astonished what a DSLR like this can do!!