This camera may be too old. It's quite big, you can hardly call it a compact camera. Also, the maximum aperture is only F4.5, so using high-speed film is recommended. The image quality is excellent, like that of a DSLR. Much better in fact than the results I can get from a similarly sized digital camera, especially at the end of the shorter zoom range. And the flash works fine. There's some red-eye, but overall it doesn't overexpose scenes like most flashes on smaller cameras. I have had thisโฆ