Criple beat with excellent image quality
Pros:
Best image quality at $130, great battery life, little trooper.
Cons:
Blurry images, Worse LCD, No usefull features, very basic.
The Bottom Line:
I recommend this camera because it is fool proof, it takes good quality images on its own with no user intervention because it has no manual functions. Great little camera!
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Author's Review
Nikon has done it again... Simple, basic, but good!
Basic little camera, with not many functions.
Camera produces lots of blurry pictures indoors,
but outstanding image quality in good lighting.
This camera doesn't have a lot to brag about, very limited function set with a huge list of scene modes.
I don't like that they added more useless scene modes.
Too many scenes have made the menu worse, too much scrolling.
Most scene modes are useless since they produces color cast and high ISO.
I only use the landscape and museum scene modes.
Landscape works great outdoors because of fast focusing.
Museum works great indoors because low ISO and great auto WB.
Those are the only two modes that I always use on this camera.
Camera has a great dinamic range, images are always very even across the board.
Camera takes great pictures of dark skin people with excellent skin color.
Camera handles white balance very well indoors and outdoors.
Images are clean, smooth tones but sharp details with good color balance.
It is always a good feel to see that photoshop auto correct can not improve the images much because the images are already so close to perffection.
Camera is very slow overall so you will need a lot of patience.
Camera has great battery life even with only 2AA, but rechargeables are a must.
It has separate compartment for batter and memory card which is a most.
It takes good videos from what I seen.
It comes with video cables and good software included.
Camera is very small so it fits in most pocket.
The LCD screen is the worse that I have seen, only good for framing.
Huge LCD screen with very low resolution and not too bright.
LCD screen is useless in bright sunny days.
But it is a good feel that final pictures will look good even if the LCD is bad.
The macro mode has been worsen, I had a Nikon 2200, the 2mp version of this model and it had far better macro capabilities.
What can I say, I love the little thing, I think for $130 it offers $300 worth of image quality at only 6MP.
Also read my review on the samsung S730 which is a similar model that has lots of features but not as good image quality.
