I have owned one of these for a year now. It has some verry user friendly features, easy menu navigation for when you do want to use your own settings although there is not any manual apperature setting, shutter speed setting, or even a manual focus for that matter; like there is on the more expensive pro cameras. It does have a Manual exposure setting, you can choose if you want to black and white, sephia, or color. You can also choose picture ratio, quality, sharpness, and contrast. It also takes decent video at 30 frames per sec in JPEG. Cant zoom in or out while filming though.

Over all for the money it a good buy ,and it makes all of 6.0 Mega pixels count.