I bought one 4 weeks ago, to take on holiday. It perforemed faultlessly and we have some superb photos. It really does deliver and the battery lasts forever - I only rechrged it once! If you are looking for a simple-to-use and virtually foolproof camera that consistently produces outstanding results, then this is it. It starts up very quickly, there's virtually no shutter or focus lag and it works in very low light without flash. The movie mode produces really excellent vids as well- so good that I gave up taking my video camera with us when we went out on trips. I recommend you buy a couple of the new 2gb storage cards - I did and it meant I could get 30mins of vid on each, or less, obviously, if I took stills too. Really, though, for the price, you can't go wrong! And no, I have no connection whatever with Fuji!!