I own a Nikon Coolpix 7700 and bought this camera for my wife to replace a not so impressive plastic bodied P&S Canon that's being held together with tape. I love this P330 so much I hate to part with it! It's not another cheap plastic camera, but rather a small, dense in-the-hand, metal bodied precision instrument. It has a premium fast f1.8 (to f5.6) 5x optical zoom lens that protrudes only 1/4 inch when closed beyond the body; it is definitely pocketable. The 12 MP CMOS sensor is the same as in the Coolpix 7700/7800 models. The controls are well laid out and well marked. The 3 inch screen is bright and sharp. Everything exudes quality.I must confess to not having field tested it yet, although I've taken a few pictures around the house in the different modes. Pictures are very sharp. Menu selection allows display of the various parameters (shutter speed, aperture, flash status, histogram) but not ISO. Exposure compensation, however, can be changed +/- 3.0 stops in these auto modes to produce the saturation desired. It works well in the auto, shutter and aperture priority modes, but, unfortunately the manual mode falls short, as it does in my Coolpix P7700. Regardless of the aperture & shutter combination shown, the screen image brightness remains the same, and only when captured and displayed do you see what you've got; that's no help.Overall, however, I'm pleased with this purchase, especially at the price advertised on Amazon, which is $80+ lower than at the major photo store I frequent. I would recommend this model to anyone who values big camera performance in a pocketable size.