A photographer needs a good camera to express the beauty in the digital form. this camera is one of the decent and a semi pro user camera. it is the best in its class. the picture quality is not as sharp as the costlier camera but acceptable. the video recording is also superb. it comes with 18-50 mm f3.5-f5.6 lens which is not so sharp. the shutter speed is quite slow. the low light photography is very poor with this camera. the most bad thing in this camera is the battery life so for long video recording you need some extra batteries.