Certainly not my first bridge camera but a few of its features tempted me into having it as a plan B or C alongside my Nex7 and Nikon d300. First of all its weather resistant and then it has a 50x zoom lens. The equivalent of 24mm to 1200mm - as you will see the image stabilization allows one to use the 1200mm focal length at much slower shutter speeds than expected. A useful but limited feature is the interval shooting possibility. You are limited to 15, 30 and 60 sec intervals and shooting durations from 5 mins to 2 hours. It also has high def video at 60fps and unlike many other similar cameras has slo-mo video albeit at 480fps a small size of 240 x180 .At 120fps you get 640 x 480 which is a lot better. ISO goes from 100 to 12800 but as expected the results at the higher iso's are a bit grotty! You are limited to F11 as the smallest aperture and 1/2000 as the fastest shutter speed. The widest aperture is f2.8 at 24mm and f5.6 at 1200mm. You also have various continuous shooting modes. Some early pics below

composite in PS of the two above wide angle images

1200mm 1/125 f5.6 160iso auto orig macro raw file

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