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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mono" data-source="post: 1223325" data-attributes="member: 32540">Well I've been having a play around with it and well it's a mixed bag. Likes: The zoom.I like having the 500mm reach, and also the 28mm, (for years I had a succession of compacts with 28mm lens and you get use to what the world looks like through that lens.) Its lightweight means you can carry it around and hardly notice, it's not a chore to lug about.  Dislikes: The image quality! In anything but good light it takes very noisy and fringy pictures, not a patch on my existing Sony W12. I also found that in some circumstances it will not take pictures, I was at a concert, low light couldn't use flash, I knew the pictures wouldn't be perfect but I just wanted snaps as a record and as hard and as often as I pressed the button it would think and flash icons on the screen but would not take the picture.  This was supposed to be a new general purpose camera for me, something that went wider and longer than my existing camera, but the quality of the product generated means it will be second fiddle to my old camera.</blockquote>