I got this camera for christmas, from my parents, and was so happy as I was not expecting such a lovely camera!!! I was so happy with it and couldn't wait to get started, so I went straight outside to take some pictures to test it out. It has loads of different settings, so it really helps, when you first get it just to have a fiddle around and test each one out. I love using the landscape setting when I'm doing outdoor photography, it really captures the light so well and the quality of the picture you capture is of such a high quality, I was suprised! When I got this camera, I got a lens with it and then my parents also bought me one more lens (a tamron one). I'm now so glad they did, as the lens that came with this camera didn't have a great zoom on it and it really helps to buy another lens which has more of a zoom :) I'm more than happy to take this camera to college with me and use it on a photography course I might be doing, as all in all a fabulous camera! I'm no camera expert and this was my first proper camera, so my review may not be great or may not use the correct terms for certain things so I'm sorry about that! Thanks for reading :)