I have the older A70, bought in 2003 when we were house-shopping. This has been a good camera for us in that it has enough features to (usually) satisfy my serious photographer husband, yet still has a couple of modes easy enough for point-and-shoot me. Some friends of mine have the A75 model that followed ours, and Canon even fixed the annoying mirror-shiny panel around the screen that was too bright in direct sunlight to see your pictures. Under normal circumstances it has very little shutter lag and takes pictures decently in medium-to-low-light settings. One other nice feature is that it takes 4 AA batteries, which are usually pretty easy to find. I'd definitely buy another.