Nikon Coolpix S9500

The S9500 does a good job as I expected with long focal lengths ('zoom'), where the subject of interest fills a significant portion of the frame. If much cropping is done, the image deteriorates rapidly. Outdoor images in very flat lighting, landscapes or large groups-of-people shots - these will suffer greatly from pixel smearing and artifacts. The camera seems to respond well in spite of the absurd and unnecessary 18 megapixel count, and although the zoom lever action is relatively slow, ...