I think that is the new improved version of my camera, mine is a HX100V. Its pretty cool bc it has a built in GPS (drains the battery fast, but if you want to pinpoint your photos, its sweet). Also, it has pretty much all of the manual settings an average person would need... plus if you want to move on to a SLR later, I think a camera like this is good to practice on. I'm an ametuer though, so maybe I'm way off. My camera also is able to take full HD movies and 3D pictures, so I'm guessing (without looking) that one can too. Only thing that I've found with mine that I don't like is that sometimes the red in the picture is a little off - probably not enough for most people to notice, but it gets me sometimes and i have to fix it. Also, I wish mine had a shutter setting to stay open longer than 30 seconds.