if you ever need a camera that is inexpensive,but has some manual controls the canon a590is is working pretty well for me.my camera skills are very lacking to say the least,but i am slowly working on that.this camera has shutter shutter priority,aperature priority,and "full manual" settings.the iso can go from auto to 80 to 1600.it doesn't have a lens that will do the super close up zoom shots,but for well under$200 it does a good job.in my opinion