For a $79 camera, it performs pretty well in almost all circumstances. However, because it is a no control, depend on the "settings" menu for specific scenes, it tends to shoot at a rather high shutter speed making some shots difficult...don't expect to see any long exposure of water of clouds. But, for close up it does pretty well. These two shots were done using a tripod, the latter being several exposures fiddled with in PhotoShop.