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Summary: The best camera I have ever bought!
Review: The Nikon Coolpix 775 is simply the best camera investment I have ever made. The camera is very easy to operate, delivers beautiful premium quality photographs, and is compact enough to fit [literally] in your pocket. We have taken ours to the Caribbean, and gotten beautiful shots of beaches and palm trees. We have taken it skiing in France and Utah, and each time we were even able to take it with us on the slopes (yep, it really does fit comfortably into your pocket)! All in all, this is one amazing product. We got ours when it was fairly new, so we paid a great deal more than it is listed for here, but I assure you that even doing that was incredibly worth it! If you are a casual photographer who enjoys the fun of taking and sharing photographs of your adventures in life, this is the camera for you. I hope this is helpful to anyone interested in digital cameras or even just considering the investment. Enjoy!
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Summary: The4 quality on this camera leaves something to be desired
Review: I've had the camera for a year. It's broken twice - once under warranty and once not - and the repair cost more than a new camera with comparable features. You couldn't pay me to own another Nikon digital product - I feel totally burned.
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Summary: Slow, bad focus, [not good] in low light.
Review: This camera wasn't cheap when I got it and performance was pretty poor, given the competition. It's slow to focus so you'll never get the picture right. Its performance in low light was bad as well, with lots of noise and grain. And to make it all worse, it's not that small. It's so thick it's hard to fit in your pocket anyway. I ended up replacing it in less than a year!
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Summary: Keep it out of the rain!
Review: This is a light, handy, and versatile 2 megapixel (fine for up to 5x7 prints) camera for entry level and most other non-professional digital photographers. It is easy to use, but the menu is not quite as intuitive as some other cameras, like the Canon ELPH series. Just read the manual, and play with the controls as you do, and you should be fine. It is not "great" for action shots, because the ISO equivalent default is 100. For soccer games, and other active settings this is a little slow, but if it is sunny, no problem. On dark days it will blur due to a slow shutter speed. Software installation is easy on both Macs and PCs, and battery life is acceptable. Also off-the-shelf camera batteries (Duracell 245 and other type 2CR5) will "stand in" while your supplied EN-EL1 is recharging. Some cameras will only work with the manufacturer's proprietary batteries. A 128 MB card will hold over 600 still pictures at medium resolution and compression, Movie mode is fun to use, but there is no sound, same as with the newer 885 and 4300 Nikons, and will usually take up 4-5 MB per 15 seconds. Its "Achilles Heel" is H20!!! Even while in my jacket pocket at a soccer tournament it allowed water inside the case and that "fried" (or should I say boiled or poached?) the camera to what Nikon said was a "non economical repair" status, not warranteed. I ordered another to replace it, but I will carry a zip lock bag around in the future. You would be well-advised to do the same, regardless of the model of camera that you end up with. My daughter will get the replacement 775 for Christmas, as her Mac is already set up for it, and I will begin using my new Canon ELPH S330, which has a few more features, and is also a "pocket-sized" 2 megapixel camera.
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Summary: warranty is trash
Review: I was thrilled with this camera, never having had a digital before until it quit working after a month and a half. I had not fully explored its features at that time so I can't say everything worked great. Actually it was pretty slow and weird at times but still seemed like magic. Then it quit completely. The bottom line is that Nikon has not honored its warranty. They have now been sitting on my camera for several months refusing to repair it under warranty. We have been emailing back and forth as I try to have someone with authority and integrity address this matter and still... no luck. They want $100 from me to fix the thing.... but of course I'm not going to drop another $100 into something that I paid the big bucks for, did not mis-use, and does not work. I recently learned that a friend with the same camera had to send hers back twice in its first year. She had her local photo shop send it in for her and received better service. Still... twice in the first year? Such fickle and selective treatment of 'warranteed' cameras. I will never patronize Nikon again nor reccomend them to anyone on this basis.
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Summary: I like this camera, except for several issues
Review: I've taken over 2,000 pictures with this camera and find it terrific except: * Software Bug. If one takes pictures as fast as you can by repeatedly pressing the shutter button, the files writen to disk become corrupted when one transfers them to a PC using a Compact Flash to USB converter (Norton Disk Doctor helps to recover them). If one turns on flash, then the flash slows down the picture taking to eliminate this problem. If flash is off, one must makes sure the flashing green light (indicating it is writing a picture to compact flash), stops flashing before depressing the shutter button again. * Auto Focus. The auto focus does not always focus on the correct object, especially when the background distance is different from the subject distance, even w/ the subject clearly in the middle of the frame. Many auto-focus cameras have this problem. It think it would be helpful if the software took a small piece in the middle of the frame and expanded it 4x (to check focus) when you depress the shutter half way. * No click. There is no audible noise after taking a picture; therefore, you don't know when and if it took, unless you look for the flashing green light. * I found the the Nikon software to be buggy on Macintosh. Subsequently, I bought a USB to compact flash converter, attached it to a Windows computer, and used this to move pictures to the windows computer. Then, I installed ACDSee software on the Windows box, and am very happy w/ this setup. Other than these issues, this camera is terrific. The optics are terrific, the color is terrific, the macro focus feature is terrific, the weight is terrific, the size is terrific, and the cost is terrific. If I lost my 775 and needed a new camera ..., I would seriously consider the newer Nikon 2500 and Nikon 885, and tell the store I want to return the camera within 2 days if the shutter-button software bug is still there.
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Summary: The Camera o' my dreams!
Review: I put the Coolpix 775 on my wish list after I saw the amazing photos my friends have taken with theirs, and got it for my birthday this year. I was off to the races. THE GOOD:
It's small and light, and can fit in your pocket. It's bigger than an Elph, but still quite manageable. The first day I used it, I had it in my pocket while touring the Napa Valley in CA. The buttons are easy to use and figure out (I've seen some BAD UI on a Sony Camera), and the industrial design is elegant and sleek. The Coolpix has a bunch of photo modes, but honestly I haven't been able to see much difference between some of them. Still, the Sunset mode has taken some spectacular shots for me, and I've experimented with Portrait and backlight modes as well, with good results. For me, the meat and potatoes here is the ability to take macro-focused shots. Being a designer means I like to have shots of textures, which means getting in close. The macro mode is superb, and I have used it to great effect to get interesting textures from rusty metal, concrete, paper towels and bark. It's also great for getting closeup shots of things like flowers and other plants. I've even got good shots of my dog's muzzle. The picture review mode is helpful as well, particularly the thumbnail mode. You can sort through your photos quickly and delete the bad ones (this is one of the main reasons we get digital cameras in the first place, right?), and mark them for auto-transfer. You can also zoom in on them if you want, though I've not seen the usefulness of that particular function yet. The default memory card is 8 MB, which some people find to be small, but I find to be perfect. One of the first things I did was to switch the picture quality to 640 x 480, 72 ppi. I just don't take photos for print purposes, and i can take about 160 photos at low quality. Users who want to take hi-res shots should probably get a 128 MB card to allow for good storage of fine-quality shots. The rechargeable battery also has decent life, allowing me to take almost all of those 160 before showing a low battery warning. Recharging takes a couple hours, though, so make sure to charge up before you head out to Disneyland for a long day of photography. THE BAD:
Not much. My biggest complaint was that the Nikonview software appeared buggy, although apparently the trouble I was having was easily corrected by re-seating the memory card and re-connecting to the computer via USB cable. The transfer process is very straightforward, just plug the USB cable into the camera and hit the "Transfer" button. I've taken about 300 photos (and those are the ones that I've kept) since getting this camera on the 10th of July, and will probably take thousands more. It's my favorite toy. I've been a web designer (hush, all you UF readers out there!) for going on seven years now, and in all that time, have never owned a digital camera. Well, this is all the camera I need. Bravo, Nikon.
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Summary: Weak Flash & but great outdoor pictures
Review: This is a great camera for its size and has wonderful features and great for outdoor photography. I wish it had some manual features like adjusting aperture,as only drawback i see is that the flash is not powerful, and images need to be within 6 feet to be clear. And dont buy more than a 32Mb flash card cos the camera takes almost 10 sec to retrieve pics in preview mode, and the wait gets longer if you used a higer capacity flascard.
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Summary: Average features and quality
Review: I purchased this camera and for the price it's pretty good. However, in comparison to the features and performance of higher priced digital cameras (my own is a Casio 4000, 4 MP) I am not impressed. You get what you pay for, that's the bottom line.
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Summary: Great lens
Review: I was amazed at the quality of the photos with this tiny camera, even at medium resolution. Because of that and its convenient size and weight, I'm totally satisfied (especially after using the bulky Sony Mavica). There could be improvements, of course. The Zooss capability is insignificant, and there is a rather long delay after pushing the button on flash setting before the picture is taken.
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