We have one of them big canon monsters, with 5 lenses and what I PITA it is, it makes vacation horrible because you have to lug it around, worry aobut putting it down somewhere someone will walk away with it, worry about banging it, blah blah blah... I have a small nikon ashton kutcher camera that has lasted a long time, it has to be like 4 years old and I have taken tons of pics with it, but they aren't pics lie my wifes gets with the canon... this is supposingly just as good, zeiss makes awesome glass, i have a zeiss scope on one of my hunting rifles it was like $2000 but better than a swarvoski that would cost double that...