This camera was gifted to me by my son, who is working in USA. I am not a professional photographer. I am a practicing Civil & Structural engineer. Even then, I find this camera very useful in my profession like taking details of the existing structures under investigation, for latter review from my office. It has got an optical zoom upto 3 times, which is good enough for my profession. A large 2.5 LCD is a special feature of this camera. The flash guality is good. A resolution of 4.1 Mp is good enough. The battery life of two NiMH is long. This camera is coming with a built-in internal memory of 32 MB. We can augment this memory with memory-chip.
To sum up, this camera is giving an excellent performance & picture quality in the mid range & I have no hesitation to recommend this model for professionals & home users, where a very high resolution is not warranted.