Nikon Coolpix 5200

This was my first camera and not it dates back to almost more than 36 months. The best p&s perhaps canon is created. Any where it gives the comfort. Especially in low light situations it performs dam well i have taken pictures when twilight is there and pictures have come out damn well. A nice camera to take to parties also to give kids for learning photography. Problems: Poor battery chamber construction. THe socket has come loose only one tag holds the battery. Poor coloring the color fades ...

I've had this camera for about 18 months and think it's brilliant. Would like a bigger zoom and manual settings and a larger lcd, but am having a hard time finding something to upgrade to. It is very well built and has a good range of features including iso preference and auto bracketing. Performs well in low light and in bright light I don't get any purple fringing. Although the lcd screen is small I can see whether the picture is sharp or not unlike some other p&s cameras. Not sold ...

Great little camera which gives stunningly high resolution images across the frame when examined critically - something which many of the smaller cameras seem unable to do. Excellent natural colour and almost perfect white balance. Exceptionally good macro for a mini camera. Doesn't really offer much manual control apart from ASA equivalent setting, but performs very well within its limitations. In my view the "soft image" question is a total non-issue, as the images are very high resolution ...

I had the Nikon Coolpix 5200 for a couple of weeks and I've now returned it. I'm a novice so I can't possibly give a proper in depth review. There aren't any other reviews here, so I may as well share my opinion. The cam was an impulse buy. I urgently needed a cam. I took over 1000 shots with it... I was pretty unsatisfied considering I paid $600 for it here in Australia. Not including the 128 MB SD card and extra warranty, which were also refunded. I definitely paid much more than this ...