Joyce
I have returned this camera. I bought it as a replacement for my old Powershot SD1200. I take a lot of bird photos, and the SD1200s maximum 3x optical zoom is inadequate for this purpose. Unfortunately, even though the Elf 180 has an 8x optical zoom, every photo I took at 8x turned out to be fuzzy. I am positive it is the optical zoom causing the problem, because I had turned digital zoom off in the settings. (Digital zoom photos are even fuzzier.) I subsequently bought a more expensive camera, which has not yet been delivered. I was going to keep the Elf 180 anyway, for travel use. But then I realized that for non-bird photos, my old SD1200 takes photos that are as good (or better) than does the Elf 180, and also has more user-friendly controls. For example, the SD1200 has a macro button on the camera, whereas the Elf 180 forces users to drill down through a series of menus to reach that function.