Another happy owner signs in 
Positive:
- Live view and special display angles enable creative shooting (like from floor level to up, shooting children) unlike most cameras.
- Was the first camera in this class with live view. Suits me especially well since I wear glasses. Only once or twice in bright sunlight I've used the normal viewfinder.
- When shooting for real, this camera in my opinion is still better than e.g. Canon's D400 kit with small lense (tourist/women hand size). The lense is that important and image quality about the same. Especially the 24- is something the others don't have and after having this, I won't accept any 28- in the future. I'm happy to have chosen this over D350 that time.
- Silent
- The buttons which felt awkward for some are actually good after more use.
- Looks like a camera, not a toy
Negative:
- Doesn't do too well in dark, is too slow to focus. Extra flash highly recommended. Outshines compact cameras of course but loses competition to many/most DSLR.
- HDMI would be welcome for viewing the images, but didn't really exist the time this came out.
- Videos would've been welcome. Well, I went and bought Canon HV20 for that. After all HDV is something else than 640x480... And so they're still totally different devices.
Wishlist: Something like this camera with HDV, improved flash and faster focus. Probably won't happen in near future.
Positive:
- Live view and special display angles enable creative shooting (like from floor level to up, shooting children) unlike most cameras.
- Was the first camera in this class with live view. Suits me especially well since I wear glasses. Only once or twice in bright sunlight I've used the normal viewfinder.
- When shooting for real, this camera in my opinion is still better than e.g. Canon's D400 kit with small lense (tourist/women hand size). The lense is that important and image quality about the same. Especially the 24- is something the others don't have and after having this, I won't accept any 28- in the future. I'm happy to have chosen this over D350 that time.
- Silent
- The buttons which felt awkward for some are actually good after more use.
- Looks like a camera, not a toy
Negative:
- Doesn't do too well in dark, is too slow to focus. Extra flash highly recommended. Outshines compact cameras of course but loses competition to many/most DSLR.
- HDMI would be welcome for viewing the images, but didn't really exist the time this came out.
- Videos would've been welcome. Well, I went and bought Canon HV20 for that. After all HDV is something else than 640x480... And so they're still totally different devices.
Wishlist: Something like this camera with HDV, improved flash and faster focus. Probably won't happen in near future.