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A really superb camera! Simple or more complex depending upon what you want it to do for you. At the simplest setting (Ai) it can cope with virtually anything, but you have the flexibility of a more advanced camera (including producing Raw files) if you need it. I 'downgraded' from a Canon SLR, a 20D. I wasn't using the camera because it was just too heavy to carry around. This camera is so light I have no problems and it goes with me virtually everywhere. I was originally worried by the idea of using an LCD viewfinder. I needn't have worried, the viewfinder is SUPERB! As well as giving a very good image it also gives a lot more visible information about the operating of the camera than is possible with a normal SLR, and you are not really aware (except in poor light when it isn't quite as good) that it's not a direct viewfinder.

this was my wifes birthday present, it arrived very swiftly, and the service was impeccable.