If you don't use the zoom in picture mode, it is a great point and shoot digital camera. As such, it can yield nice photos. If you put a 4 gigabyte SD card into this camera, you have 12000 pictures you can take. More importantly, you can get many pictures while traveling and a whole bunch of movies. I recently spent a week on a sailboat cruise and took movies to try it out. I couldn't believe when I uploaded the movies to my computer and played them that it also had sound. Wow. By the way, I bought mine for 3 bucks at Goodwill.

You must wait for the green light while it stores your pictures. You can't rush it.

In summary, it doesn't take pictures as well as my Nikon F. But, I could use it strictly for travel and I love its size. And by the way, the pictures really are pretty good.