I got mine very cheap as a refurb. Before I purchased I read the available reviews, most of their comments seemed to hinge on 2 issues. The cameras hunger for batteries and its slowness. Having already got some high capacity AA rechargeable batteries for another camera , I tried these in the 1275 and they work a treat. Just use these high cap 2000mA( or better) rechargeables, keep them well charged and carry some spares. The slowness I think may well be down to my choice of memory card. Father Christmas will be bringing me a high speed memory card and i think this may well speed things up. When you think about it, 12 MP is an awful lot of info to be transferred from ccd to memory card, and if your memory card aint the brightest light on the Christmas tree it dont help! To summate:--- make sure you only use high capacity batteries, charged to the brim. And dont go too fast. If you try to take too many pix in too short a time, the whole system just goes into pause mode while the memory transfer sorts itself out. If the higher speed cards help matters, I'll let you know!

I already have two excellent bridge type cameras, konica-Minolta Z10 and Kodak 612. I use these a lot. The Z10 so quick and easy to use. However, I also wanted a high pixel count camera for occasional use and the Z1275 looked OK. I read quite a few reviews, and a lot of them were frankly poor,and put me off. However having seen a Z1275 at a real bargain price I investigated further. It seemed that most of its problems stem from inadequate batteries and asking it too do to much too quickly. If you can get round these ,its fine. I fitted some 2700mA rechargeables, and just took plenty of pics at 12MP and 10.7 MP settings . I didnt use any of the "trick" settings and didn't go too fast. Only once did it tell me to slow down, because it was still transferring data. That really is all I want it to do. High res pics in good light. If you expect and ask much more, you may well be disappointed. For me it ticks all the boxes and does everything I ask. I'm pleased with my bargain.