i worked in the cameras department at best buy for a year myself.i personally dont like sony because alot of there point and shoot cameras have issues with there pictures haveing a blue tone to them.however if the sony has a Zeiss lense then its deffinetly a decent camera.Canon makes a decent lense as well.the best color results from my experience were from the nikon and canon.i myself have a canon A520.i personally would like to move up to a 5-6 mp but money is tight so ill just settle with my 4mp.honestly it still does a decent job.i love the manual feature on the A series.gives ya a little more control but deffinetly not the same as a digital SLR.but thats just my $.02