Do Not Buy

Awful battery life. Full two second lag between pressing the button and getting the photo (indoor flash)--so unless I find some way to adjust something, I will never get the kid moment I shoot, but the one two seconds later. Today I put in fresh batteries, took five photos (without flash) and downloaded 106 photos into the computer (it took four minutes):empty batteries. All within two hours. Granted: cheap batteries, but the Duracells fared only slightly better. I read the reviews: 'how bad could it be?'I thought. Don't make my mistake. Yes, I will use rechargeable batteries from now on, but it still means constant changing and carrying multiple spares at all times. And I understand that rechargables get used up faster that normal batteries, and they are not so cheap. Spend a little more for quality.
yes, the photos seem fine, and certainly six mega pixels for the price is fine--but also standard these days. It is the idiot proof, simple camera i wanted, and I will make do with rechargeable batteries. I hope the lag thing is fixable: on my expensive Canon IXUS, there were various choices that got the shot down to 'instant'; i hope this has the same, but I am not holding out a lot of hope. I thought i would have written 200 words by now to qualify this as an Normal Review but apparently not yet, so I will keep writing until it tallies up, as i have little more to say, but i spend most of my day saying things that have little import, so a few excess words on Epinions can't hurt.