Ive been using this camera for about a month now and have been impressed at how well it performs.

Outdoors the camera gives a very high level of detail and gives true reproductions of shaded areas even in exceptonally bright/dull conditions.

Indoors the camera is again impressive and gives sharp, detailed pictures without any fuss.
The pop-up flash easily illuminates rooms in complete darkness and gives sufficiant light for some decent pics.

The ten times optical zoom is great and out-performs some higher priced digital cameras. The lens is equivalent to 38-380mm in 35mm format. There is also a 5.7x digital zoom feature. For close up photography the camera can focus from 10cms away from the subject.

For scrolling through images and accessing the menu system there is a 1.8 inch LCD screen. The menu screen is quick and easy to use and with a bit of practice you can navigate through it in seconds. The screen has a brightness control to help you see the screen in lowlight.

shutter time is pretty fast and can take a picture every 1.5 seconds or so. Also havent seen any red-eye in the 200+ pics ive taken.

The 16mb xD Picture card supplied however is pretty poor and only takes 12 pictures so you will almost certainly need to buy a bigger card. Most cameras come with these crappy cards so I cant really fault the camera for it.

Overall I cant see any negatives in the camera. The picture quality is almost always superb and looks and performs like cameras twice its price.

I find it to be very easy to use and fantastic value for money.