• Excellent image quality
• Great colour and white balance
• Solidly built despite plastic case
• Matrix Metering
• Fast processing, short cycle times
• Logical menu system (as found on CP700, CP950, D1)
• Easily Portable
• Better "bright" LCD mode (as found in the new CP950 firmware)
• Auto ISO mode
• Ease of use (even my dad used it!)

• What no USB?
• No CF Type II support
• Can't scroll in playback zoomed mode
• Limited zoom (2x.. matches S10)

Overall conclusion

Here's my rating of the Nikon Coolpix 800:

The Coolpix 800 has most things you'd find on its bigger brother save some manual features, a few more millimeters of zoom and the swivel lens.. Yet it's only half the price.. It's a rough and ready camera which you'd take everywhere and rarely be disappointed with... So if you want Coolpix 950 quality and a fraction of the price then you really should be considering the Coolpix 800. Proof of the pudding is in the pictures.

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