Bought this for my wife to replace a camera with a broken battery door. She loves it. Easy to use, very light and small for the amount of features it has. This is a really good basic point and shoot camera. Sony never disappoints me on quality of design and manufacture. Oh, and it has excellent battery life! Buy a spare battery or two and external charger and never miss the shot due to a dead battery. They are very small and two will fit in your Sony LCS-CST General Purpose Soft Carrying Case(Also available on Amazon) which has a compartment for spare battery and memory card.
The camera’s menu system requires getting used to. At first, it seems very counter-intuitive, but after a while, you will see the logic to it. Takes good pictures overall. I have somewhat shaky hands but good thing the camera has jitter control, and overall compensates for that. Closeups of items is where either I have to do a better job setting things up for the picture or the camera doesn’t adjust for it properly, I don’t know.
Camera may be a bit to small for some. I am a smallish person and had some trouble holding it properly to take pictures with.
Still need to take more pictures and use proper techniques, but this camera is a pretty safe bet for getting something that will do the job.