see very far...

Here I was able to get close to something far away. This finch would have flown away before I could get close enough to take this shot with my old camera. But with a 12X optical zoom, I could capture this image from forty feet away. The image stabilization feature kept the image sharp even at max telephoto. Cropped down to just the bird at full zoom, you can discern individual feathers, and it still looks relatively clean, thanks to the five megapixel sensor. I'm sure I'll have a lot of fun doing some bird watching out at Carver Park this summer.