So I went ahead and bought the zs6 from Costco as I'm going to be in Yosemite next week. It's a pretty sweet camera the little I've used it so far. I should probably read the book to figure out all the whiz-bang stuff it's got, but meh, maybe on the plane. It definetly blows away my last camera which was a 4MP digital with 3x optical zoom. This thing having 12x optical at 12MP is pretty amazing. Also my old camera didn't have the auto stablization.. I had made many a fuzzy picture because of that.