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Rating from kleeblatt 3 Stars ()

Advantages Small, great stabilized zoom, solid

Disadvantages Grainy pictures, video docus, on button difficult, no photo orientation data

I own two other Nikons, a D300 and a D40 and the point of this purchase was to replace our now dead casio pocket camera. I wanted a good zoom, it had to be small, with reasonable video and good picture quality. Ideally good in poor light too.

The size is good, not the smallest pocket camera but still small enough to take anywhere and not notice. The zoom is great and I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality on max zoom in, it's stabilised too. The flash is really annoyingly placed when it pops up, however I don't like flash and was able to permanently disable it anyway. This is good.

The camera does not store orientation data i.e. are you taking shots with the camera upright or not, which doesn't sound like a bit deal but is really annoying actually when you come to view them in a photo programme. You'll be rotating all your pics manually. Pain!

The video quality is perfectly ok, you can hear some zoom noise which doesn't disturb but the auto focus can take a while to catch up. All in all, video is ok.

The picture quality is worse than the old fugi camera that it replaced, worse to me here means more grainy and worse with strongly sunlit subjects. i.e. the camera doesn't handle light extremes that well. The graininess will be due to putting 16 megapixels onto the sensor. Megapixel inflation = more grainy pictures. Why can't manufacturers produce compact cameras with 8 or 10 megapixels and way better picture quality?

I have three small children and the camera isn't that good at snapping them moving quickly even in good light so in poor light it's worse still. Fortunately, we don't use this camera indoors.

I have slim fingers and even so on / off button is hard to operate as it is recessed. Why? The LCD is nice but I am missing a simple portrait mode, mode for pet yes, portrait mode no!

All in all a bit disappointing and I'm not sure I would recommend it. That said, if all compacts have this ridiculous pixel count these days then this camera will be as good as any other. For the money it's ok though and it is getting plenty of use.

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Nikon Coolpix S8200
Nikon Coolpix S8200
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