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1. Pamela G. Pope says:

   January 5, 2010 at 11:04 am

   The ship­ping was fast and the cost for the cam­era was bet­ter than I could find any­where.
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
2. Laura M. Wackerly says:

   January 5, 2010 at 11:54 am

   It doesn’t take much to make me a happy picture-taker. I want to point the cam­era, shoot the photo, and have a great-looking pic­ture to add to my col­lec­tion. This is not the cam­era for that. I have had it for about a month, and every time I’ve used it, I’ve just been frus­trated. I have been a life­long Kodak EasyShare Dig­i­tal cam­era user, but I thought since Nikon had such a great rep­u­ta­tion, I’d spend a lit­tle more to get a really nice point and shoot. Wrong. The cam­era LOOKS great. It has lots of cool fea­tures that are easy to use. But the long and the short of it is that, under even nor­mal light­ing and action cir­cum­stances, this cam­era can­not take a clear shot. This morn­ing was the last straw. I took about 20 pho­tos of my kids play­ing in my liv­ing room, and 8 — EIGHT– of them were keep­ers, and even a few of those weren’t as sharp as they should’ve been. I just fin­ished the return autho­riza­tion process with Ama­zon, and I’m on my way to buy a Kodak. Save your­self some grief and skip buy­ing this cam­era.
   Rat­ing: 1 / 5
3. PhotoHobby says:

   January 5, 2010 at 2:43 pm

   I pur­chase this cam­era a few weeks back and I was very excited about it. I was look­ing for­ward to the qual­ity of Nikon lens, the size and weight of the cam­era. Now that I have received it and took a cou­ple of pic­tures with this cam­era, I am very dis­ap­pointed with the per­for­mance on the pic­ture qual­ity of this cam­era. Maybe because this cam­era is so advance that I do not how to manip­u­late the set­tings in order to take a shot; but over­all the qual­ity does not even come close to my Canon SD970IS. I have taken in to the Nikon shop and all they did was to check it to spec­i­fi­ca­tion. That means, it is design as it. As to the pic­ture, you have to make sure you have plenty of light­ing and not much vari­a­tion with it as it does not give you much option to change the set­tings. This cam­era does have a lot of auto­matic fea­tures, like scene selec­tions, auto focus, and image sta­bi­liza­tion; how­ever, there is no way that I know of how to man­u­ally set the F-stops. I try a close up pic­ture with lim­ited light­ing but turn­ing on the flash, you would think it would cap­ture the image but maybe an over expose area where the flash had taken placed. Instead, I cap­ture the pic­ture with a lot of other spots to illus­trate that I was under­ex­posed, even when I had the flash.

   Bot­tom line, if I could return this cam­era, I would and stay with Canon.
   
   Rat­ing: 2 / 5
4. BDP says:

   January 5, 2010 at 4:56 pm

   I bought this cam­era, pri­mar­ily for the 7x opti­cal zoom, but was pleas­antly sur­prised at the ease of use and qual­ity of the pic­tures. We pre­vi­ously had a 5 year old Olym­pus and were not look­ing for 12MG pixel cam­era. This fit our needs exactly. The screen is bright and the con­trol menus are some­what intu­itive. The cam­era does have many fea­tures so there are sev­eral lay­ers to the menus. The ini­tial delay for the first shot is acceptable.

   I would rec­om­mend this cam­era to any­one who wants a lit­tle more than a basic cam­era, with a good zoom and the option to make some adjust­ments through the menu sys­tem.
   Rat­ing: 4 / 5
5. David C. Eccleston says:

   January 5, 2010 at 6:35 pm

   Clean inter­face, lots of fea­tures. Fits in your pocket. I like how the shut­ter closes auto­mat­i­cally, it keeps the lens from get­ting dirty/scratched. I espe­cially like the panorama and close up modes, as I was back­pack­ing for 3 days and tak­ing a lot of nature shots. The bat­tery lasted until the end of the trip, and I took over 300 pictures.

   The wheel inter­face is nice, it makes it really easy to change modes and nav­i­gate menus. You can click up on the wheel and adjust the flash set­ting (auto, on, off), or click left on the wheel to adjust timer set­tings. On my pre­vi­ous cam­era it was hard to find these set­tings so I just never used them.

   The one prob­lem is that the wide/zoom con­trol is a lit­tle sen­si­tive. It’s easy to zoom in too close or out too far, and you some­times have to iter­ate to get it exactly where you want.

   Rat­ing: 5 / 5

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