After taking pictures of stuff animals at my visit to the ROM, I visited the Metro Zoo last Sunday to challenge my camera even more.
The camera was able to give me all the manual control I needed, such as letting me focus on the animal instead of the fence like in this tiger shot.
The 20X optical zoom was also very impressive and let me take very big head shots of the animals. This tiger was actually not even visible to the naked eye as it hid itself behind the brushes.
When it came to shooting inside a dark environment the camera had a lot of trouble, especially when the animal was moving. I had to take a lot of shots before I was able to take a picture that wasn’t blurred of the beaver jumping out of the water when it was swimming from side to side.
Overall, I was extremely happy with the camera as I was able to take many decent pictures with it, probably even comparable to the SLR cameras. The only disappointment was that I couldn’t take a good picture of the lion because it was sleeping behind a rock! 
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