The Amazing 5X optical zoom was better used for when I was standing on the beach and shooting.CONS:- Video is saved in Quicktime .MOV format so when I tried to stream it from my pc with TVersity software to my Microsoft XBOX, it would not play.- When I played the video on my pc, one of the 10 videos played back in slow motion even though I did not do that.- Kind of weird that both photos and movie