I’m a very occasional photographer, so this camera meets my needs very well. I find it easy to operate. This camera has a rechargeable LI-ON battery, and this is an improvement over my older camera that uses AA batteries. I like the feature that corrects for camera shake, as I had sometimes had blurry photos with my older camera and this is much improved with the Sony. Obviously, if you’re a serious photographer, this is not the camera for you, but for me, it’s great. I like to buy a less expensive camera in case I drop it in a lake or off a bridge by accident, and this seems fine for the price.