if you want a basic camera that can zoom and have multiple auto-everything feature , this little film camera may be good for you . it be easy for I to carry around when I do not have room for a slr -lrb- single lens reflex -rrb- camera . take decent picture with 400 iso film , but light need to be pretty darn good daylight lighting for the pix to look swell . since purchase this little baby , Minolta go out of the camera business in the mid 2000s . the Freedom zoom 160 come out , I believe , in 2002 , one of the last film point & shoot camera . now I have a digital point & shoot with video capability and a Pentax K-x DSLR that I use for serious photography . but for a back-up camera , the Minolta can not be beat .