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Summary: I love my 995.
Review: Got the Nikon 995 from ... in Jan 2002 - and have taken around 2000 pictures till now. I have been very pleased with its performance as a digital camera. The freedom to click on whatever I like to shoot knowing that it costs nothing - has been the best part. I just have a 32MB card, but in the decent resolution that I use, I can take around 140 pictures or so before I have to reformat.Pros:
* Excellent picture quality
* Swivel lens - lets you shoot at angles without spraining your neck
* Drag & Drop download to PC - it's a breeze.
* Decent battery life and quick recharger.
* Flexible manual controls - aperture, shutter speed etc.
* User friendly controls - right where you would expect them to be.
* Smooth zoom Cons:
* Long Delay between click and shutter release - I lost some precious moments because of this delay - and now I usually click before an event - hoping I would get it at the right second.
* Too many steps before I can shoot (Pull out of bag,Remove lens cap, Switch power on, Turn swivel, Popup flash and then - wait for the camera to get ready...)
* The lens cap that unprofessionally hangs off a thread
* Poor video capability - but thats what camcoders are for.
Rating:
Summary: Professional digital camera
Review: The Coolpix 995 has an excellent quality lens. Very realistic colors, with no-extra vivid touch, as I am used from Sony and Fujifilm. This Nikon Coolpix-995 camera is a little bulky & heavy to carry but this brings the advantage of stability in shooting. Handy and functional, easy access to controls. With wide converter the barrel is quite well corrected, comparative with the wonderful Canon lens 2.8/24mm, and far better than Fujifilm 4700 without any wide converter. Poor pictures with the flash in dime light as all cameras with buil-in flash. With SB-80DX becomes a very powerful tool, quick in focusing, precise in exposure metering, with no room for failure - a real professional camera. Mounted on the SK900 bracket you have a nice feel of a trusty tool in your hands. If you attached the wide converter to the Coolpix-995, and you mount it on the SK900 bracket together with the flash SB-80DX, you can put it on the table with no concern that the lens is in danger of scratches or everything to fell apart or to fell down. The 2 batteries are sufficient for a one day trip. The 1GB memory is enough to carry a laptop with you for a one week trip. I never needed a tele-converter. The lens' zoom and the wide converter provided what I needed in the past 60 days since I brought the camera. In automatic focusing a continuous lens-noise is stopped only by the stand-by function. The camera wakeups pretty slowly to my taste. The manual is not very easy to digest, but this is the only way to get the maximum from this camera. The optical viewfinder has an important parallax to correct. I would prefer a digital one instead of the optical and LCD swivel monitor. Bracketing function is obsolete when using the SB-80DX flash. USB was functioning from the first camera connection with laptop. Microsoft XP Professional did not produce any problems when the photos were turned from landscape to portrait in Explorer. Remarks: I would prefer a camera with 24-120 or even better 24-192 zoom lens (in 35 mm equivalent). The time lag I would prefer to be minimized and a hotshoe for flash would be great. A color digital viewfinder it is a wish.... Now I am seriously thinking to look for a 5 megapixels camera that will cover my desires and expectations. I am thinking to Coolpix 5700, which will allow me to use the accessories I have.
Rating: 
Summary: A Disaster! Think Twice!
Review: How does this camera compare to others? Is this a quality camera? Does it produce quality images? These are questions that remain answered for me since my camera has yet to function six months after being purchased! The camera has been repaired once, the battery provided by the company is dead and cannot be recharged (and no photo companies in Portland, Oregon carry a replacement), and Nikon has yet to respond to my pleas for assistance. I don't know if the camera even works yet. Nikon is known for being a premier SLR camera producer. Does not seem like it is true (for me anyway) for digital. If I had to do it all over again I would have waited and checked out other products.
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Summary: A BAD DEAL
Review: I purchased a 995 last Dec 1st and have yet to get the promised ... rebate. I've made many telephone calls and as near as I can find out Nikon sent the rebate to the WRONG STATE. Based on a lot of reviews I also purchase a lot of accessories for this camera and am very displeased! The LCD can not be seen in ordinary daylight and thus you will not be able to use the menu system. Don't buy any of the add on lens as they block the optical view finder and again the LCD is useless in daylight. If you want to take photos on nice sunny days find another product.
Rating: 
Summary: A wonderful camera at $[money]
Review: I paid only $[money] after rebate for my camera. I am thoroughly pleased with it. I have made hundreds of pictures and have had great results. It does have a complicated menu but that is due to it's extensive feature set. I have been buying 128MB Compactflash cards for about $[money] at a local electronics supplier and they have been completely satisfactory. The only annoyance with the camera is the size and weight of the wide angle adapter and the fact that the flash and viewfinder cannot be used when it is installed. I will have to buy a flash bracket and an external flash to be able to use a flash with the wide angle adapter.
Rating:
Summary: A Steal at the Price
Review: I'm very pleased with the camera, and I believe it was offered at a great price... This is the third Nikon I've owned, but this is my first digital camera. Previous to it, I scanned negatives and slides into my computer. My main concern was picture quality. The Coolpix 995 makes excellent 8x10s. Unless you look very carefully, it's difficult to distinguish them from prints made from Nikon's more expensive cameras, such as the Coolpix 5000. The 995 also works with Nikon speedlights, including the SB24, which I have. To me, this is an important feature in that it allows for the use of the flash off the camera.
I strongly recommend buying the SK-E900 flash bracket. I found that I could not mount the camera on my Stroboframe bracket because of the shortness of the sych cord (AS-E900) and the location of the synch terminal on the camera. The only downsides I've discovered, apart from the location of the synch terminal, concern the fact that the 995 is more bulky than I wanted. Some of the menus are confusing, as well. The 995 does have a "point and shoot mode," but in truth, this is a camera for someone who really understands photography and who is interested in customizing a host of camera functions.
Rating:
Summary: Nikon 995
Review: The 995 is a very good camera for the average shooter. It has the ability to change angles for difficult shots, such as over the heads of croud. Resolution is as much as anyone would want for 8 X 10 blow-ups or less. The battery is hard to find. Nikon, the company, is not very helpful and sometimes even rude. The view finder makes it difficult to make closeup pictures in bright light and the automatic focus works great on large items. Almost impossible to take pictures of lacey items like delicate flowers cause it does not have enough to focus on.
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Summary: Flash not sychronized??
Review: I bought a Nikon Coolpix 995 about two weeks ago after reading all the rave reviews and, of course, trusting the Nikon name. But it has been quite a disappointing experience to me because of the electronic flash problem. 8 out of 10 flash pictures come very dark with "red-eye". I talked to customer support at Nikon twice and I yet have to find somebody who knows about (any) cameras yet!! Has anybody else experienced a similar problem? ...Thanks
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Camera
Review: I love it. Can be fully manual - can be fully auto.
The best camera I've ever had (I had about 10).
Whole bunch of lens converters makes it even better.
I bought fish-eye - it is completely new `life`.
Rating:
Summary: Nice camera but autofocus is disappointing
Review: I like the camera. Though it is not perfect. This is waht I do not like: 1. autofocus works well only in good light, if light is low
or if there is large contrast autofocus very often goes wrong,
it is much worse than my old Nikon N60. And this is not only
my unit - my brother's one has exactly the same problem
2. it is bulky
3. it drains batteries like crazy 200 shots (60-100 with flash) and battery is gone, you will need spare battery
4. close-ups have problems with focus. autofocus often fails
while manual one does not have enough steps,
however recently my brother is very succesfull with closeups -
I am not. On the other hand there are things I love in this camera: 1. If focus is OK pictures are good quality - almost as good
as my Nikon N60 but for the computer screen it won't be any better
2. most of the photos are fine - I guess the light meaters
etc are good
3. I love the swivel thing - I can take photos like myself
with something in the background
4. It can take nice photos in low light with no flash.
You need a tripod but on the other hand you get much nicer
skin tones than with the flash. This is especially great for museums,
I have great shots of items with no tripod and no flashlight!! I Love this!!
5. I love the gadgets: computer connection is as fast as USB can
be (much faster than my USB reader), camera is seen as SCSI
driver on my Linux Red Hat box 7.2 with no extra drivers required. I love TV cable (both NTSC and PAL) so you can
go to you family and show the shots on their TV. The quality
of TV is not great but it is very convenient.
6. It uses CompactFlash - the best choice for memory:
cheapest(paid $[money] for 256MB), most durable
7. I love higher resolution modes (though I never need more than 2 megapixels) - instead of xeroxing the book in the library
- I just take shots of the pages I need. I save money and time
on xerox copies. Overall this is a nice camera once you are carefull with
the focus...
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