User level: Amateur
Construction: 4.5
Features: 4.0
Image quality: 3.0
Ease of use: 4.0
Value for money: 3.5


Pros:
This camera has some nice additional features (like time-lapse movies and animation, possibility to use as a dictophone), lightweight and compact design, easy to use (if you ever have used digital cameras before that is). It looks and feels good in the hand.
Battery life is OK for me.
Unfortunately the good part ends there.

Cons:
- scrolling of enlarged image in preview mode is too slow. Also I dont see any good reason why the zooming can go up to 10x because the image gets blocky above 6x.

- image processing (sharpen/noise reduction/compression artefacts).
This problem seems to have at least two components. One of them is definitely the noise reduction (got worse on higher ISO setting), the second is probably the image compression method/quality. Packing 6MP into a ~2.5MB jpg file surely takes its toll. For comparison: Sony A100 10.1MP compresses its images into ~4-5MB .jpg file (full quality).
These artefacs become visible on larger low contrast areas (like lawn/grass, fallen leaves, flower petals, bushes etc), rendering their look somewhat unnatural(sometimes visible even on 10x15cm prints).

- focus hunting. Even when focusing onto a printed A4 format sheet (plaintext) the camera tends to search several times before locking. This problem gets worse when shooting in continous mode and the camera tries to refocus before taking the next frame, resulting in out of focus images and making the use of continous mode almost useless.

- LCD panel 'lies', showing images brighter than they actually are. Makes exposure correction quite difficult. And yes, I've played around with LCD backlight brightness settings.