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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I have used this camera for some months now. I have used it in several travels internationally as well. There is very little I can complain about.Daylight pictures are amazing. Indoor pics are very good as well. Sometimes I need to use the manual white balance settings to get great pics, but then hey - isn't that why manual overrides exist. Overall, color accuracy is fantastic, sharpness is very good. Sometimes pictures turn out a bit soft, maybe that is something to do with my settings. The built in flash is extremely good. The areas that could do with some improvement are a) the auto focusing speed and b) the quality of the included software (nikon view 4) e.g. it needs to start up automatically and not manually, it doesn't let you copy pictures back to the card. I am very glad to have bought this one; at 3MP, I can think of very few reasons to "upgrade" this camera any time soon.
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Summary: THE BEST !!!
Review: This is the best digital camera I have ever owned or tried. For the people that gave this camera a bad review, read the owners manual, so you can learn what this camera is capable of.
I was AMAZED!!!
Oh by the way, I own a Canon powershot G2, nice camera.
The 995 is BETTER.
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Summary: A PERFECT SHOOTER - Now read this
Review: I bought mine about 2 months ago and have had great results with it. It's not quite the quality of my 35mm or my medium format but I DO LOVE the ability to shoot and immediately download the images to the computer and print them out. I use the camera for composition and ideas and then return to the location and shoot the scene with my medium format. If you are shooting snapshots the 995 might be a bit overkill. You will probably never need most of the features. Although the color and picture quality are gorgeous! DOWNSIDES: (1) Proprietary Batteries...if that baby goes dead while you're shooting you can't run to the jiffy mart to get more. (2) The cable release (well not quite a cable) is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive. Over [money]. Since I shoot at night a lot, this would be a great thing to have but I haven't budgeted the money after paying the almost [money] for the camera. (3) I wish it had a hot shoe, but alas you can rig up a flash bracket that will work fine. (So that one is petty) (4) Some slight haloing (sp?) especially in the magentas around lights at night on the HI setting. Although this might be my fault in the fact that it has a so-so learning curve. But I'm starting to figure it out. These halos completely disappear when you convert the image to B&W in Photoshop. UPSIDE: (1)The great manual functions. You can over-ride everything and tweek the things you over-ride. (See Learning Curve comment above) (2) Easy to locate buttons in the dark. (3) Fast Shutter Speeds and really low (and high) fStops. (4) It seems to transfer the 10MB Tif Files extremely fast thru the cable that came with the camera. I wonder if a reader would even speed that up more??? (5) Hey it's a Nikon. They do make pretty good stuff. In CLOSING: I looked at a few different models before getting the 995. I seemed to find the best quality and ease of use with the 995. My suggestion is DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT...go somewhere where you can hold and test this thing...(Obviously come back here to purchase it)...you will see the difference when you put comparable brands side by side with the 995. cheers.
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Summary: The most amazing and best approach to "easy human use"....
Review: This camera simply takes great pictures, indoors and out, and great low-light pictures as well. If you know nothing about cameras, just put the Auto Mode... You'll be dazzled with the results... If you are a little more involved in the camera world... You will admit the camera is great...
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Summary: Super, easy to use camera!
Review: I am new to digital cameras (though not to computers), and have used only simple film cameras. I intended to purchase an entry-level digital camera, but my husband encouraged me to get something better. We compared cameras, their features, and read reviews. The Nikon 995 was our choice. We ordered it six weeks ago from Amazon and are extremely pleased. Right out of the box, it was a great simple point and shoot in auto mode for me. As I learned more, I began using many of the options offered in auto mode. I joined an online camera group where I am learning about the manual settings, and I hope to eventually proceed to that mode. This camera simply takes great pictures, indoors and out, and great low-light pictures as well. We live at the base of a steep hill and I take fantastic skyline and sunset pictures up there. The photos transfer easily by the USB cable to the Nikon View 4 software on our computer. I already owned Paint Shop Pro and I use that as my photo program. Purchase a 128 MB memory card to go with it and perhaps an extra battery. The battery lasts a good while, but an extra battery is good insurance for those times you will be using the camera all day. Also, buy a good camera case. Don't be intimidated by articles that say this camera has a steep learning curve. Auto mode is logical and simple enough for a beginner, and you have lots of choices to play with there or you can simply let the camera use the default settings. If you don't want to go beyond that, you will still be very pleased with the photos you take.
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Summary: Should I keep this one?
Review: I found a comment of Robert F. Hume is very useful for me. In the same situation of taking a shot of a tree with green leaves with a blue sky as a background and a sun behind, I saw a kind of "grain" along the line of leaves edge and the sky. The grain might be in horizontal or vertical direction and accumulates only in the connection line between the leaves and the "blue" sky (2048 x 1536, FINE). Sorry, this appearance does not happen to my Canon PowerShot S10!. I originally thought that this is a defect on my camera (new) only, but now it seems to be normal for this model. Does anybody have this experience? I was even thinking about returning it. Low light or flash phography were also terrible. Autofocus is slow at low light. Setting is complicated. However, its macro is superb! Outdoor photography with enough light is also great.
So, I give it 3 stars.
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Summary: Not a pleased customer
Review: I am very disappointed in Nikon. They have not made the best digital camera in the 995. The LCD screen makes a great mirror in the daylight. Which limits the option to use any options outdoors because you can't see the readout. I have seen pictures of trees taken with the 995 that showed blue leaves on the edges of the trees where they touched the sky. I certainly hope that Nikon does some re-engineering on the 995. Otherwise I have a very expensive snapshot camera.
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Summary: Things Nikon should improve
Review: A couple of weeks ago I gave my new CoolPix 995 a five-star rating after very limited use. Now, after a week of taking a lot of pictures I discovered some shortcomings: (1) In only about a week I lost the cover cap for the auxiliary flash sync terminal, and since I had not even attempted another flash source I claim that the cap comes off 'way too easily. (How do I obtain a replacement?) (2) There's a lot of exposed glass on the outside of the camera that may be vulnerable to breakage. (3) Too easy to misadjust the mode dial or turn it on or off inadvertently. (4) Battery is adequate for simply taking pictures but lacks capacity as the sole source for transferring photos to the computer. On the positive side, this camera takes pictures under low-light conditions very well even when I ignore its signaling me to use the flash, and I have nothing to complain about concerning the picture quality under any conditions. In the "point and shoot" automatic mode the 995 compensates for my inadequate experience quite satisfactorily.
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Summary: Complex, but capable
Review: I may be a premature in assigning this 5-star rating but I think I'm going to love this camera as I become accustomed to it. I've used an old Canon A-1 film camera for years and know my way around it quite well. This Nikon, however, is my first digital camera and at present I'm awfully glad it has a point-and-shoot mode. Seems to be capable of most anything I can imagine I want to take pictures of.
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Summary: Near professýonal
Review: Light, practical, covers almost all needs of an user. Flip flash
responds well within 5 to 7 meters range.Perfect for near professional.If a card reader is used to rewiev the pictures ,Nikon 4 software is quite practical,but when it comes to create a new picture CD, your computer can get stuck,depending on the type of your card reader and CD recorder.
Camera has nothing to do with it, but it is a serious problem.
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