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Nikon Coolpix L100 10 Megapixel Digital Camera (Matte Black) with 15x Optical Zoom + AA Batteries + 8GB Card + Case + Accessory Kit
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1299 in Camera & Photo Brand: Nikon Model: K-40050-02

Nikon Coolpix L100 I just purchased a Coolpix L100 and am loving it so far. I mainly plan to use it as a point-and-shoot, and haven't gotten to check out all the features yet. Picture quality and zoom are great. One issue I found annoying was with the accessory kit that I also purchased. It comes with a rapid charger and 4 NIMH batteries, but the owners manual for the camera says "do not use rechargable batteries". Wish I had known that ahead of time. Also, the mini-tripod is pretty much a joke. Cool It's Pix I wanted a new camera for an upcoming event - something with a decent zoom and high quality. After some looking around I decided on the Nikkon Coolpix L100 as a good compromise between price and the features I wanted. I elected to buy the kit since the additional cost over and above the cameral was negligible considering what extras came with it. Having received it and used it for a few weeks now I'll say that I'm happy with the purchase. The camera itself is fairly compact, has a 15x optical zoom with some additional digital zoom and takes pictures up to 10 MP. It takes four AA batteries and an SD memory card and comes with shoulder strap and lens cap. I'm very pleased with the camera. It powers up quickly and pictures snap fast. The zoom goes from wide to tight and back very quickly using the W/T knob and all other interfaces are push button. The LCD screen displays sharp images on a 3.0" screen. There are several settings - Auto, sports, close up - and it goes on to have even more sub settings like: Party, sunset, outside, food (in case I snap a shot right before I eat) and more. I'm no professional but I've used auto and close up and both yield great photos. There is an Easy Auto mode but I've found this less than useful. Supposedly it selects the best setting and/or sub setting for your picture depending on lighting, movement, flash, whatever - it's too distracting for me and I wasn't always thrilled with the results so like standard auto much better. The flash is flipped up or down manually. Some may not like this but I do. It's very easy to tell if the flash is on or off this way as opposed to other cameras where I'd have to repeatedly press a button to cycle through flash settings. There are also several in cameral editing tools. Last on the camera is power consumption. I've been impressed. My previous camera was much smaller and only took 2 batteries but it would eat those up on a matter of minutes with just intermittent use - I'm talking alkaline batteries here. The L100 takes 4 but they've lasted for days each, way more than twice as long and on a more robust camera. I can't wait to stick some lithiums in there and see how long they last. Incidentally the manual says to NOT use rechargeable batteries but one of the optional batteries in the camera menu is Coolpix Ni-Mh so that's confusing (I'm thinking you really can if you want to but maybe it's not the recommended type). The kit itself seemed worth the extra [...] bucks or so as it came with - a nice carrying case with strap, lens cleaning cloth, 8 GB memory card, extra batteries (in addition to those that come with the camera), a mini tripod (honestly they took the prefix "mini" seriously here - it's tiny but still a nice addition), a memory card reader (don't really need it but hey), a battery charger that charges both AAA and AA size (again the instructions say not to use rechargeables for the camera but it never hurts to have a charger around for other things) and a memory card "wallet". Of course all the cables and image transfer software are there as well. I'm having fun using this camera and am looking forward to taking it to my event. Nikon CoolPix L100 Easy to use, we know nothing about digital and now have ability to send photos via e-mail. The pics look great. The screen is nice and big too. This camera is all all good good good. We tried a Kodak. It sucked, hard to use, couldn't even get it to turn on half the time & only saw the picks on the camera's screen. Never got them to transfr to the computer. What we did see was poor quality. Then it just quit working all togehter and went into the tash. Nikon Good Buy $$, Good Product, We Love it!!!