I hope you're not banking on that manual focus - IMHO it's a pile of poo.
At least it is on my S9500 and yours has the same lens (manufactured by Tamron BTW). It's fly-by-wire - nothing inherantly wrong with that but the implementation is simply atrocious. You have to turn the ring so slowly it's virtually unusable. IMO, this is by far the worst part of my camera. The rest is nice though