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Wonderful camera until I went to the beach .... the shutter suddenly refused to open. Although I took great care of my brand new camera, the sand-damage was done and repair not possible according to Minolta.

After 2 years the view finder became distorted and out of alignment. Hopefully it can be repaired but there seems to be a lot of used cameras of this model advertised. I wonder why?

The only thing nice about this camera is it's size, very compact and light weight.

I returned mine for a refund for the following reasons.

1)The battery doesnt last long, so you gave to buy another one, cannot use AA if in a pinch.

2)Indoor photos are washed out by extremely powerful flash. And it always uses the flash, even in not so low light situations.

3) Extremely slow at writing the photo to the SD memory. (about 5 seconds)(this is without flash)

4) Buttons are poorly layed out, and menu system not thought out well.

5) Movie mode records in MOV format!! forcing you to use quicktime!

I returned this camera and got a SONY P72. ...

Yeah, the image quality is average, but for snapshots and fun movies, it's great. It does look very cool, and it is the smallest digital camera out there that takes movies with sound. This makes it a great camera to bring along to the baseball game, to the beach, an amusement park, etc. For all those videocamera moments.

That problem goes away with this little camera because you'll take it everywhere. It is really handy!! The pictures are decent and with photoshop you'll have print quality pictures.