Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Thumbs Down

I recieved the product for a Christmas present. The OEM batteries lasted for only 7 exposures. Thinking that I might be doing something wrong I made every effort to conserve battery power and stretched the life to 8 exposures. The camera seems like it was designed by a committee that didn't communicate. The zoom control is awkward and inconvenient to use. There was no easy way that I could find to get the LCD screen to default to OFF (to save power). I returned the product to the retailer and was told that in the two weeks since Christmas, over 40 of the model had been returned by dissatisfied customers. In two days I used 48 batteries for 90 images.To Minolta's credit, the photo images were of excellent quality.