I actually bought this camera because it was in my price range, and I really wanted digital video, and it had better resolution than most for video. You should see some of my lego movies, lol. Than I found out it could take still photos. And like you guys all say its not great. But I would have never gotten nearly as close in with a regular camera. I also used my grandparents 4.2 megapixel kodak and the zoom wasnt nearly as close. I have 18x optical on mine, and 360x digital which I try not to use.
Thanks for the comments.