Just remember it's 3x optical zoom!  Don't get
her thinking it's an ultrazoom :).  3 minutes
video/audio is at one of the lower resolutions,
not 640x480, and I HIGHLY reccomend that
every goes out and buys the batteries I have. 
Rayovac 15 minute rechargables, 2000mah for the
AA's, and just like it's name it charges in 15
minutes.  Truely awesome tech!  Oh, and the A75
successor supposedly fixes a number of problems,
one of them being the dreaded E18 error, which
occurs when the lens zoom mechanism gets stuck