It takes fantastic photos, and I carry it on a very small pouch on my belt, which also takes 3 more 8 meg memory card and 2 spare batteries!The HDR, backlight, panorama and other settings on it works great, especially the HDR - with it one can take photos inside a house in broad daylight, and see everything inside and outside clearly, without using any flash at all.It boggles the mind why other ca