Review 4 of 17
Price Paid:
$350.00
from online Summary: This is a bad camera. The interface is reasonable, and the software is rather fine, but the artifacts, color rendition, and performance under low light make this an absolutely poor value for your dollar.
My other two lower-resolution digital cameras (HP 215 1MP and Vivitar 3365 2.3 MP) give, by comparison, sharper, cleaner and better color-balanced pictures, for less than half the price.
While this camera, again, has nice manual features (focus-point weighted metering, pseudo manual focus, bracketing, etc.), they are rendered useless by the end result: very bad photographs.
I never trusted the hype around Nikon, and this being my second Nikon purchase, I've been disappointed a second (and last) time.
One of the shutter blades once came off, while I was using Macro setting for the first time; I sent for repair and their service was quick. But noticed that after that I got the "System Error" screen a lot. This is a bad product.
Besides having the Canon 10D in my crosshairs (I own EOS lenses), I have shopped around and for the same value and features, lower-end Canonshots and Kyocera cameras are by comparison a work of art. Strengths: Auto shooting modes.
30 sec video (QuickTime) option - no sound
Manual exposure modes
Very light, compact Weaknesses: Awful color noise.
Poor manufacturing quality.
Battery hog. Similar Products Used: Vivitar 3365
HP 215 Customer Service: Fast, cordial. Call wait average 20 minutes.
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