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Summary: this might be important to some people
Review: (...) (A local retailer's) website quotes, "Lens: 38mm f/5.3 - 120mm f/10.5, 7 elements in 5 groups (ED lens and aspherical lenses are used)."
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I bought this camera expecting it to replace an olympus stylus epic zoom 80. The nikon had everything going for it: more zoom, a diopter adjustment for use without glasses, the nikon name, etc. After the first roll of film I discovered many of the pictures were very off center and I often had to press the button several times to get it to take a picture. I thought I could compensate for that with my 10+ years of hobby-photo experience, but after the second roll of film I realized it wasn't worth it. Even zoomed out it seemed that pictures were off center. Several times I missed the perfect picture because the camera didn't take the picture the first time I pressed the button. The graphic quality of the picture may be great but that doesn't make up for the off center composition and missed shots.
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Summary: Horrible!!!
Review: I got this camera as a gift after my fuji discovery was stolen last year. I was expecting my second child and not in the mood to take pictures until she was born 6months later. Needless to say I should have taken pictures with this camera sooner, because it was too late to return it! The pictures are horrible! The camera does not focus fast enough to capture those split second funny faces a newborn makes... I am very dissappointed in this camera. All of my pictures are blurry and of nothing significant. If I could I would return this camera in a heartbeat. I am now buying a new camera and giving this one to my three year old to "play with".
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Summary: Miserable camera from great manufacturer
Review: I got this for my wife based on my extensive experience with Nikon's pro gear. It is a complete and unmitigated failure. All shots are over-exposed. Lens is not sharp. Tons of flare in adverse lighting situations. You have to teach yourself to hold the camera steady for a good long time to allow the (slower than molasses in January) autofocus to lock onto the subject. Once it is done acquiring what it feels is critical focus it renders perfectly out of focus pictures every time. It appears to focus five feet in front of the object. Close up pictures are off center and the parallax adjust in the viewfinder does not adequately compensate. I own a rangefinder camera so I am aware how to use this feature, it just does not yield accurate results on this camera. This camera is a bad train accident. I had no idea that Nikon was capable of such a travesty. It is not clear how some of the early reviews of this product were positive. Either the reviewers had different samples and Nikon changed their production technique (substituting ED glass with coke bottle bottoms) or the reviewers were paid plants for Nikon USA or they lack any redeeming photographic skill. It is interesting that all recent reviews are abysmal. Nikon really dropped the ball here. The camera didn't have to be great to satisfy me; it simply takes horrible pictures and is in every way unacceptable.
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Summary: "lite touch" makes it difficult
Review: I had read some great reviews of this camera (on amazon)before I bought it, but now I see why the rating has changed from a 5star to a 3star. The lite touch seemed like an attractive feature, but its a pain. Its fine if you dont need to use the flash, but most of the time you have to keep clicking and watching an internal light go from green to red green to red. If you press for too long, you cant take the photo - if you dont press long enough, the photo opp. is gone (this has happened to me MANY times. Save the... dollars and go with a pentax.
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Summary: A comment on the lens
Review: I haven't tried the camera yet myself, but I did some research on it and wanted to make a comment on the lens.Normally, I prefer point and shoots with lenses that don't exceed 3x, and preferably more like 2x, because with long telephoto range lenses there are just too many optical compromises that must be made, and that affects the sharpness of the lens. However, this lens contains 6 elements in 6 groups, and most importantly, uses plastic aspherical components, a recent innovation in these cameras that is sure to make a difference. The new Minolta Freedom Zoom 125 also has this. I am probably going to buy one of these little gems myself. For now I'm continuing to research the different compact point-and- shoot models out there, but if I had to make a decision right now, I'd go with this one, and I've probably looked at at least three dozen different cameras at this point.
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Summary: The "I'm not ready" camera
Review: I just returned this camera after two weeks of usage. It was *much* worse than my last Pentax point & shoot. The autofocus on this camera is terrible--I probably missed 10 Christmas and son's birthday pictures because the autofocus claimed it couldn't focus. (In darker areas, it uses a dinky white light to try to focus with. It didn't work well.) The zoom is also slow and jerky. And the worst part is the huge delay between the time you push the shutter and it taking the picture. I missed several other photos because the camera took a picture after the action had ended. The flash reach and recharge time was also poor, though all the new point and shoots seem to take a long time to recharge the flash. We just replaced this camera with a Pentax IQZoom 120SW. Better zoom, better autofocus, shorter shutter delay with about the same size and weight.
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Summary: The "I'm not ready" camera
Review: I just returned this camera after two weeks of usage. It was *much* worse than my last Pentax point & shoot. The autofocus on this camera is terrible--I probably missed 10 Christmas and son's birthday pictures because the autofocus claimed it couldn't focus. (In darker areas, it uses a dinky white light to try to focus with. It didn't work well.) The zoom is also slow and jerky. And the worst part is the huge delay between the time you push the shutter and it taking the picture. I missed several other photos because the camera took a picture after the action had ended. The flash reach and recharge time was also poor, though all the new point and shoots seem to take a long time to recharge the flash. We just replaced this camera with a Pentax IQZoom 120SW. Better zoom, better autofocus, shorter shutter delay with about the same size and weight.
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Summary: Perfect camera to blame for bad photos
Review: I just want to echo some of the earlier comments about this hi-tech piece of junk. The shutter delay is about 1/3 to 1/2 of a second, guaranteeing that you'll miss every shot that's not a still landscape. And that's when you can get it to let you take a photo. As others have noted, sometimes it's difficult to get the camera to let you take a photo in the first place. My grandfather's instamatic of 35 years ago took much better pictures than this camera.
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Summary: FORGET TAKING GOOD PICTURES!
Review: I purchased this camera on the recommendation of a camera store owner because of some special lens it supposedly has. It doesn't take any better pictures than other cameras I have owned and it is sooo difficult to get it to focus on anything! I had a baby recently and most of my early pictures of her are completely blurred because of this camera's inability to focus, especially close up. I'm going to return it and trade it for a Pentax which always takes close ups well. I agree with the shutter release delay everyone else is having a problem with also.
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