"[At] $600 (I'm sure we'll see it for less before long) it really does offer the best of a 3x optical zoom compact with a high resolution 3 megapixel sensor and a very wide range of both easy to use SCENE exposure modes as well as manual controls and features (really only just less than the 995). My only concerns would be with the dominance of red and cyan in images and those nasty chromatic aberrations."