I had the 560UZ, very similar, great camera and it was bulletproof until it fell out a second story window, still powers on, just the lens assembly is ruined.
They're pretty amazing at macro shots and they're a nice compromise between SLR and point and shoot.
My main complaint would be that it's loathsome to work on manual with them but that might be me preferring click wheels to buttons. Manual focus is hopelessly slow but really accurate because it moves so slow.
I found the autometering on shutter priority mode a little lacking...
I am using a 800 UZ. I was getting a lot of blurred Macro shots. I think I need to use a tripod. I have found several techniques that work: 1. "point" the camera to the part of the subject I want to focus on, zoom out and then back in. If I happen to point at anything else, the camera will focus on this. 2. Slowly pan the camera back and forth. Then point to what I want to take a picture of. 3. Wait until the camera does its auto focus thing as it is often slower than I am. 4. Back off just a hair on the focus. I have found there are limits to the focus. 5. Back up a step or two. This surprised me when this worked. 6. I found the bird watching setting yesterday and found that this helped me sometimes with my focusing of birds and sometimes not. Therefore, I wonder if there might be other settings to help with macro shots. I am definitely still learning. I will come back to this discussion and see what the others have to say.
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They're pretty amazing at macro shots and they're a nice compromise between SLR and point and shoot.
My main complaint would be that it's loathsome to work on manual with them but that might be me preferring click wheels to buttons. Manual focus is hopelessly slow but really accurate because it moves so slow.
I found the autometering on shutter priority mode a little lacking...