Outstanding image quality. Easy to use. Very accurate colors. White balance right on the spot. Remote control very useful in dark situations when you don't want to touch the camera while shooting. Hot shoe for external flash. Tons of manual settings.

Short battery life. Only 4 Megapixel.

Simply the best quality images coming out of a point and shoot digital camera I've ever seen. Very accurate colors, sharpness, saturation, and exposure. It has some down sides like any other camera, but nothing serious. Getting an SLR-like image quality out of P&S compact camera makes it worthwhile. I Owen two cameras of this model + its older sister C-765

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10 x optical zoom
thru the lens view and focus
small size
metal body
great pictures

A special battery is required whick is kind of expensive.

This camera has everything that a photographer could want. It is easy to use, easy to carry and the pictures are great. I have taken beautiful pictures of wild life in Alaska to wonderful scenery at Mauchu Piccu. I would say that it is the best camera I have ever own. The 10X optical zoom is the greatest.

Customer Service

Have had no contact with service on this camera. However, my daughter has an Olympus C725 which need adjustment and Olympus was great. Easy to return and super fast getting it back to us.

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This is my only digital camera.

10x optical zoom, MPEG4 video, small size in relation to great number of features. Great pictures!

Auto white balance can be fooled, printed manual good, but not complete. (CD Rom manual is very good.) Image stabilization would have been nice.

This is a fantastic camera! It takes great pictures and the 10X optical range is just outstanding. (Disregard any remarks of any camera about digital zoom. That feature is a sham!) I love the compact size. This camera replaces my Pentax full SLR camera---so I no longer have to frantically switch lenses to catch the action---just move the zoom lever! The 30 frames per second video is a great bonus feature. (A limitation: You can't zoom if you are using the built-in microphone. {If you really want to shoot video--buy a video camera!}) There are plenty of manual settings to satisfy the avid photographer like me. Or just use it as a point-n-shoot. The panorama feature is fun, too! The "settings" menu can take some time to learn, but is worth it. Especially to correct for automatic functions that can be not exactly what you really want. I found that it is sometimes better to set the white balance to a preset like sunny, cloudy, Incandescent, etc. instead of auto. i.e. a close-up of the Statue of Liberty (green) against a blue sky came out with the sky appearing purple. Setting the preset to sunny fixed it. Note that to get to manual focus, just press the center (OK) button for> 2 seconds. This tip is not in the printed manual--only on the CD ROM. If you want more range, like an even wider angle or longer telephoto, you can buy an adapter to file .5X and 2X lenses (and other choices, too). I did that but didn't buy good enough quality 2X, so I returned it. The .5X helps a lot because the camera at widest angle is only about 38mm. That is not always wide enough. I highly recommend this camera!