Best Nikon Digital Cameras - 1.6 to 2.36 in. LCD Screen Size, Battery Charger Included Accessories

'Just beaten by the 5-megapixel version for value.'

'insufficient flash'

'Unless you read the manual, you'll never figure out that you need to press the center OK button in playback to access the feature'

'pronounced barrel distortion at the widest zoom settings and a viewfinder that tends to freeze and blank out during use.'

'The bad news is that the clip length is limited to just 60 seconds, regardless of the size of your memory card.'

'The rechargeable lithium ion battery lasted nearly 3 hours, a middling result.'

'Even the best setting (640x320 at 15 frames per second) was jerky and riddled with compression artifacts.'

'Feels cheap.'

'Low light focusing was poor, due mostly to the lack of an AF-assist lamp.'

'The 14MB of built-in memory lets you take a paltry five shots in the camera's highest-resolution mode.'

'Lowish battery life.'

'Looks a bit dull.'

'Although the Nikon Coolpix 5900's menus are easy to understand, frequent trips to the system can be annoying because the choices take up multiple pages (the Shooting and Setup menus run three pages each with 14 and 15 options, respectively), and there are no shortcuts to access the option you need.'

'with its only average performance and handling, this product will struggle against similarly priced and specced offerings'

'It has less zoom, fewer manual controls, and poorer performance than most of the competition, making it a tough camera to recommend enthusiastically.'

'the image was somewhat dull, with a cold, cyanic cast.'

'no manual exposure modes'

'sunlight washes out the 230,000-pixel 2.5-inch LCD, which occurs more frequently than it should'

'the Coolpix 8800 forces you to take the additional step of setting the camera to one of its continuous shooting modes--or (if you don't switch to continuous mode) to press the shutter three to five times for a complete bracket.'

'the ISO 400 image is quite noisy, with a lot of missing detail.'