Rating: 
Summary: auto exposure and auto focus rarely work
Review: This camera does produce some outstanding results when the auto-focus and exposure meter work. Unfortunately, this would be an extremely low percentage of the time. Most of the time it requires an enourmous amount of light and contrast in a photo in order to lock in auto-focus. Why many competitors such as Sony and especially Olympus have been able to master this challenge and leave Nikon in the dust is anyones guess. The true problem with the exposure meter is that the sensor is directly next to the area where you must release the trigger. Therefore when you take a photo you are blocking the sensor. I don't think you need an engineering degree to know why this does not work. When I emailed Nikon's service dept they agreed that this was in fact a problem (without a solution.) My reccomendation would be to purchase an Olympus 4040 or Olympus 5000 which I have used with excellent results. Both also have a 1.8 aperature lens which means you will need almost half as much light as you do with the nikon. The only thing you will have to sacrafice is the swivel LCD screen. I think it is a fair trade off for focussed and properly exposed images.
Rating: 
Summary: Fragile
Review: Resolution outstanding and worth the effort to learn the complicated controls. CCD failed and required two trips back to Nikon over 5 weeks to repair, now working OK, Nikon responsive on status via their email service support.
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