I bought this camera also at Ebay. I bought it because its Nikon. This is a point & shoot compact film camera. It has a zoom of 38 to 105mm. It seems to work fine, but I am still determining whether the camera can take good photos. I've put a film, Kodak Max 400 in it, but still haven't finished the roll. This camera is Nikon ZOOM 500 compact film camera and was introduced in 1994 same goes with my Nikon ZOOM 300.