This camera has so many wonderful features like 10x optical zoom plus additional digital zoom, video capabilities, a choice of two types of red-eye reduction, panoramic stills, manual shutter speed and apeture adjustments, options of chooseing high color, normal color, low color, sepia, or black and white shots. It has about ten automatic light level and speed choices like fireworks, action shots, on the beach, in the snow, cloudy days, etc., and much, much more. It was a marveious valuse for the final bid of $109.