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It's a shame about all of the low light issues cropping up on many forums pertaining to the 5700, I really wanted to buy this camera!!!

There is so much to love about the 5700, and yet for that kind of money, it must be said that it is in exusable to not have some kind of focus assist illuminater for better low light performance,

I own a canon A20 and paid under $300 bucks and this thing completely cranks in low light, so could this feature really be that diffficult to include on an expensive camera such as nikon 5700!

I waited a long time for this Nikon model to come, now I still can not make the jump. I just feel it is not their best effort being put forth.
T Mann
 
T.Mann said:
It's a shame about all of the low light issues cropping up on many
forums pertaining to the 5700, I really wanted to buy this camera!!!

There is so much to love about the 5700, and yet for that kind of
money, it must be said that it is in exusable to not have some kind
of focus assist illuminater for better low light performance,
I own a canon A20 and paid under $300 bucks and this thing
completely cranks in low light, so could this feature really be
that diffficult to include on an expensive camera such as nikon
5700!

I waited a long time for this Nikon model to come, now I still can
not make the jump. I just feel it is not their best effort being
put forth.
T Mann
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Maybe I can help you still get the 5700 :-) It would be a tremendous improvement for you with 5mp, the electronic viewfinder, the increased resolution over the A20, etc. Not having owned an A20 I am shooting in the dark a bit (pun intended). However, both Imaging Resource and Phil highlighted poor low light ability on the A20 - the 5700 may be better.

Phil's A20 comments:
AF assist lamp isn't as effective as it should be (low light focusing is poor)

According to Imaging Resource:

"The A20 had a little trouble in the low-light category, as we were only able to obtain a bright image at the eight foot-candle light level (0.88 lux). Images were still usable (with some tonal adjustment in the computer) as low as one foot-candle (11 lux), but became progressively darker from there."

The statement 'as low as 1 foot-candle (11lux) ' is not as good as the 5700. Phil measured the 5700 as able to focus down at .8 footcandle (8.7 lux).
 
T. Mann,

If there is so much to love about this camera, then this might be the one for you. I agree that one thing missing on the camera is the AF-Assist light, but it doesn’t mean that the camera can’t focus on any object in any situation in any days you use it.

I have spent a huge amount of money on a D-SLR, but I missed so many, many things that my CoolPix camera has. A $300 camera without AF-Assist light will have a hard time to focus and so does a $6,000 D-SLR.

If you think this camera lack on only one thing, how about many other things you love about?

Take a step back for a little while and talk to yourself what kind of camera suits you. It’s only a tool anyway. Any camera is as good as the user.

With warm regards,
Bimo.
T.Mann said:
It's a shame about all of the low light issues cropping up on many
forums pertaining to the 5700, I really wanted to buy this camera!!!

There is so much to love about the 5700, and yet for that kind of
money, it must be said that it is in exusable to not have some kind
of focus assist illuminater for better low light performance,
I own a canon A20 and paid under $300 bucks and this thing
completely cranks in low light, so could this feature really be
that diffficult to include on an expensive camera such as nikon
5700!

I waited a long time for this Nikon model to come, now I still can
not make the jump. I just feel it is not their best effort being
put forth.
T Mann
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Not a deserving response to someone who is expressing his opinion. Truth is that a focus assist light probably would have eliminated most of the low light focusing complaints. When focus assist light is being added to cameras costing a lot less than the 5700, it is not unreasonable to believe that it belongs on a $1,100 camera.
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thepiecesfit said:
T.Mann said:
It's a shame about all of the low light issues cropping up on many
forums pertaining to the 5700, I really wanted to buy this camera!!!

There is so much to love about the 5700, and yet for that kind of
money, it must be said that it is in exusable to not have some kind
of focus assist illuminater for better low light performance,
I own a canon A20 and paid under $300 bucks and this thing
completely cranks in low light, so could this feature really be
that diffficult to include on an expensive camera such as nikon
5700!

I waited a long time for this Nikon model to come, now I still can
not make the jump. I just feel it is not their best effort being
put forth.
T Mann
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I am strictly as amateur of a photographer as you can get.

However, I have used and tried MANYdigitals now over the last year and a half. I am NOT going to try to put down any other camera, but we have the 5700 and I think compared to all the others that we have had and or tried and taken back, there are only 2 that did very well in our home that has MANY rooms with low light without even needing an external flash for most of my pictures. One was the Canon G2 and the other one is the Nikon 5700. So far we have not even rushed out and bought an external flash.

However we will because if you get very far away from the subject in low light it is definitely needed. But if you are close enough to subject then I am not having hardly any low light problems. I LOVE this camera. Maybe you could give the camera a try yourself and buy it somewhere where they have a 10 - 30 day satisfaction policy. It sounds like you are really interested in it. Why not give it a try and then see for yourself. Just my thoughts for whatever they are worth.
Teri
T.Mann said:
It's a shame about all of the low light issues cropping up on many
forums pertaining to the 5700, I really wanted to buy this camera!!!

There is so much to love about the 5700, and yet for that kind of
money, it must be said that it is in exusable to not have some kind
of focus assist illuminater for better low light performance,
I own a canon A20 and paid under $300 bucks and this thing
completely cranks in low light, so could this feature really be
that diffficult to include on an expensive camera such as nikon
5700!

I waited a long time for this Nikon model to come, now I still can
not make the jump. I just feel it is not their best effort being
put forth.
T Mann
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Thanks for your input!
Teri & Tyler
 
T.Mann said:
It's a shame about all of the low light issues cropping up on many
forums pertaining to the 5700, I really wanted to buy this camera!!!

There is so much to love about the 5700, and yet for that kind of
money, it must be said that it is in exusable to not have some kind
of focus assist illuminater for better low light performance,
I own a canon A20 and paid under $300 bucks and this thing
completely cranks in low light, so could this feature really be
that diffficult to include on an expensive camera such as nikon
5700!

I waited a long time for this Nikon model to come, now I still can
not make the jump. I just feel it is not their best effort being
put forth.
T Mann
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You won't get any arguemets from me concerning the low light capabilities of the 5700. It would not have been very hard for Nikon to add a AF assist light, and provide a distance scale instead of idiot icons. I would have also like a decent or at least normal manual focus system too! At least these two things!!! It would have been also nice to get a dedicated hotshoe, and a firmware upgrade by now : (

But on the bright side, you gotta see how well the CP5700 did against my D1X in a side by side comparsion. Yes, I agree, it sucks in low light, but in the great sunny out doors man can that little camera take advantage of every single pisel it has!!

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=3350197

Regards!
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some camera's fall short of coming!
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