I had problems with this camera the first few days, but kept working with it. It takes good pictures as you say, mostly black and white but resolution looks really good. The battery life definetly is a plus, and still going. I had over 300 plus pictures for 4 weeks and still had 85% battery life. Very user friendly, and set up was very easy I thought. I have seen alot of posts stating they hated the camera and took it back. I honestly was going too but gave it a few days and it worked fine. For the price I am seeing, $109?, I would definetly buy another.