Nikon Coolpix S220

Opinion: Mama said "You get what you pay for." I bought two of these for laptop bag carry-arounds, blue for wife, black for me, but we found the lenses so soft and the color balance so bad that we hardly ever bothered with them. I love Nikon. I've had many and still have a D70, a D2x, and two recently-bought S8100s. The S8100 is what I wanted when I bought these S220s. This is a good kid's camera if you can get one for about $40. Anything more than that and I would say LEAVE IT. Flash performance is absolutely miserable. Spend a little more, get the S8100. I reviewed the ones we bought, and I'm as high on that cam as I am low on this model.

Opinion: It looks nice........it feels nice to hold...........and that's all!!

What a piece of $#&*%!!!
Really slow at focusing, very soft photos.....I can't be bothered writing
this, I've wasted too much time already!

DONT BUY!!!!!!!!!

Opinion: Owned this camera for a couple of months but have sold
it. It promised to be great and disappointed in use. The
images were particularly soft and blurry around the edges
with a large amount of fringing and chromatic aberations
present. I won't buy another like this despite liking the
compact design.

Opinion: This camera I bought based on the recomendation of the sales person/ Brand name (NiKon). This is the worst picture quality I had ever seen. No value for money

Opinion: I bought this camera as a gift for an 11 years old girl. I tried it and have been very disappointed. The image quality is horrible .. it's true this camera was meant to be the first digital camera for a kid . I didn't want to buy something difficult to use. and didn't expect to see great pictures but ... I never thought that a Nikon could be so .. poor

Opinion: The worst camera I have ever used. It looks cute and sleek, but takes hideous photos.

My Canon Powershot A540 was no longer working, so I decided to buy another compact camera to replace it. There are times when you can't lug a DSLR around, so I basically just wanted it for those times. I would have prefered to buy a camera that had what my Powershot had, like aperture priority, shutter speed priority, etc... but I had to buy something cheap.

I saw the Nikon Coolpix S220 with a pricetag of $170 (Australian dollars). I thought that's a pretty decent price, and the image quality should be okay. Enough for what I was buying it for, anyway.

WOW. What a shock. The image quality is SO poor that I cannot even use the photographs for anything. Having this camera is seriously just like having a decent mobile/cell phone camera. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE quality. Every photo is so noisy, and there's no way to control the ISO. Can't focus properly 80% of the time and photos are always either grainy as hell, blurry, or both.

It is not worth even $50 in my opinion.

The image and sound quality of the movie mode is hideous compared to the Canon compact cameras.

I tried not to take notice of what the other people in the other reviews of this camera said, and judged it for myself. It is honestly an absolutely terrible camera that doesn't produce photographs any better than an old 2MP camera. Trust me, and what the other people have said. It's truly not worth buying at all.

Opinion: Received this camera as a gift. This camera is clearly designed for the very casual family snappers. It is fairly well made, and very easy to use. It is also very slim and light and should appeal to young people and children.

However the images captured are generally soft in the center and very soft towards the corner. There are also fairly high amount of aberrations which are obvious even when viewed at normal viewing size.

The camera uses significant amount of noise reduction even at base ISO, and many white speckles are visible when viewed at 100% especially at ISO 200 and above. This combined with the soft images means that nearly all images need to be sharpened post-capture.

Pros: light weight, fairly well made, easy to use, good battery life, slim and should appeal to first time and/or casual users.

Cons: bad image quality due to poor sensor and equally poor lens, limited features.

Opinion: The worst pictures I have ever taken. I bought this to replace a stolen Canon SD750. I knew it was a little less of a camera, but the guy in the camera shop highly recommended it. The outside pictures were pretty fair, but the indoor ones were AWFUL... pixalated, odd coloring, and over exposed - which caused a lot of motion blur - even in a still subject. When I called customer service she gave me a zillion suggestions about changing the exposure & settings (which I had already tried). Then she suggested adjsuting the lighting. I told her that you can't go to an event and turn on and off lights so you can get a picture that comes out right. Even a cheap camera should be able to take a decent picture - otherwise it defeats the purpose of using a point&shoot. I am going back to the store today and buying another Canon. It will cost about $40 more, but at least I know the picture quality is good.

Opinion: Although the can is neat and small and seems well made, the images though are completely unacceptable in almost every aspect. Soft, grainy, poor colour. Macro does not seem to work. I'll be taking the camera back to get another camera. I hope they will take it back.