Nikon COOLPIX L840 (Black)

I got the Nikon L840 to replace my Canon SX-520HS for general photography. So I decided on this Nikon L840 camera. I have now had this Nikon camera for over a year and now can give a decent review on this Nikon camera. Pros: Nice 38X optical zoom lens, exposure controls, easy to use, great sized rubberized hand grip, nice tilt-out rear LCD view-finder, takes SD cards, uses 4 AA batteries, has really good battery life & takes a pretty very good photo indoors [with flash] or outdoors in full daylight conditions. Cons: It feels so cheap with so much plastic, the auto focus sometimes is a bit slow, cumbersome menu system & no mode wheel on top of the camera since there are very few manual settings this camera can do. Overall photo quality seems quite good with this camera. Indoor photo quality with flash & outdoor photo quality in full daylight are actually quite good for me. Taking photos in low-light conditions is a bit harder with this camera & photo quality drops considerably unless you use the flash, but none of my digital cameras really never took a halfway decent low-light photo anyways. Digital video quality is great. It has wi-fi for those that use it. Overall, I am very fairly pleased with the photo & video quality this digital camera produces. I have had similar Nikon "P series" digital cameras including Nikon P-500, P-510 and a P-520 and this L-840 from Nikon compares better against the P-500 and P-510 and equals the P-520 in photo qualities. I am rather pleased overall with this Nikon camera. If you need a fairly basic, larger, inexpensive digital camera with a decent-sized zoom that takes pretty good photos & fairly easy to use, I think this Nikon digital camera is about the best you can find in the price range and compares very favorably to similar Canon digital cameras including the SX-510HS [30X optical zoom] and SX-520HS [42X optical zoom] in photo qualities. I gave this Nikon digital camera 5 of 5 stars because I simply think it's a great basic super-zoom bridge digital camera. UPDATE: I have now had this Nikon L-840 for over 7 months & overall photos are pretty good still, no change there. Indoor photos are still very good and really a periodic issue with the "freezing up" of the camera and me removing and reinserting the 4 AA batteries once in a great while is the only problem that has popped up. No other issues and the camera is still working pretty good. I kept the rating at 5 stars because nothing serious has happened yet with this camera for me.

Note: I am a novice. I'm still not knowledgeable (or aware) of all the functions of this camera. The smaller size and lighter weight of this unit are big pluses when traveling. Very easy to set up and get shots quickly because it is not as bulky as other makes/models of cameras. Easy to use buttons, and intuitive. Best feature I've discovered so far is the zooming. Example: from shore in Bar Harbor, ME, took picture of a lighthouse, on a tiny island (egg rock, I believe). Need a steady hand to do it, but the camera has incredible zooming from such a distance. Can get shots of hummingbirds with remarkable detail (and those little guys are hard to get to sit still and pose!). Still trying to figure out why the zooming function is a little finicky. (I suspect I'm choosing a setting not suitable for what my intent demands.) Depending on lighting conditions, size of objects in the foreground and background, sometimes the camera has a hard time determining what to focus on exactly. I've noticed this difficulty mostly in overcast weather, with monotone colors abound (gray, brown, taupe, with almost no distinction in lighting conditions between closeup and far away). Overall happy with purchase.

i don't like giving reviews before i have had plenty of time to test a product, which is why you get 4 stars and not 5, as i am still testing. i do a lot of testing. most of my effort is in low light. weakness- on off button too small and too low profile. 2nd, button to view pictures just below hand grip. i understand why its there, but move it. camera's are for taking pictures not viewing them. when i hold the camera in one hand to take a picture, the 1st knuckle joint can hit this button as i squeeze to take the shot. this button changes the camera mode to view pictures. which means that ones in a life time photo was missed. move that button. i noticed a drop in quality when sequence shots, the latch on the battery compartment feels weak, . in my opinion, this is what will end the life of the camera when it fails... duct tape to the rescue. i know i'm being hard, but thats who you want to hear from. . now the good stuff. its a great camera, your not a professional, professionals are not looking at point and shoot cameras. so buy the camera. i'm not going to be a sales man, and run threw all that's good, i gave it 4.5 stars, that tells you my thoughts. low light is the big test for any camera, point this at the sky at night, take a picture and you can see the stars in the photo. the camera greatly exceeded my expectations in low light, normal lighting, i'm still testing, but all cameras can handle normal, its speed and lighting, the win the day for cameras. i have tested the lighting, it passed, the speed, i haven't tested, it winter. it's cold, so testing is delayed. 4.5 stars, i would buy it again.

I have nothing bad to say about this camera. The zoom is capable of bringing in a clear picture of a bird sized object at over 100 yards. The Wi-Fi is internal to the camera and works perfectly moving my pictures from the camera to my cell phone. A small downside to the Wi-Fi is that it's a bit difficult to set up, that said, it's really not that difficult and once in place it works perfectly, you do however, have to download the Nikon app onto your cell phone. I have gotten perfect photos without the flash in a darkened environment. The HD quality videos you can take with this camera are crisp and clear. The camera is lightweight, compact and is ready for use within a couple of seconds of turning it on. The camera has the capability of taking several photos one after another with almost no reload time between each photo. I looked at a lot of cameras, for the price this is certainly one of the best. If you're a professional photographer, I don't think I could suggest this for you. If you're like me, a person who likes to be able to take professional looking pictures without carrying around a load of attachments this is the camera for you.

Great camera for the price! I bought this camera as my first camera while learning photography and it has done nothing but help me learn the art. It is a lot easier to learn on a bargain camera, because you can see how far you have come and it makes you realize it just isn't he camera. While yea, you will get great photos with a great camera, but it isn't just the camera. You need someone knows how to use it. As someone who uses it for automotive photography, it is like learning to be a race car driver. The best great car drivers didn't just hop in the fastest cars and start practicing. They practiced in slow and cheap cars when they first started. With all the pros, there are some cons, but I put the cons are things you aren't paying for. The video is good, but the audio sucks, and there is no microphone jack to attached to it. The focus isn't the best in the camera, but it is doable. Also, it is a bitch when it comes to indoor photography. But all in all, I absolutely love this thing. While I will probably upgrade sometime in the future, this will always be a camera I will have close to my heart.

I bought this as a replacement for a 7-year old Nikon Coolpix L100. The controls and buttons are identical to my old camera which made it easy to use for my wife and me. I had a problem with the old camera after two years and they replaced it free of charge which lead to my purchasing another Nikon. I have only used it a little but the pictures it takes are generally of good quality. The only drawback is that it doesn't seem to know when to use the flash, even though I have it up. This has lead to a few blurry low-light shots. It has a little button to flip up the flash and sometimes this button does not always flip the flash up and I miss some shots trying to get it up. Perhaps with a little more experience I will be able to use it to take great pictures.

Received on time and Quality is better than expected. Never seen the moon from a photo I've personally taken, but my my, I'm impressed with myself, the camera makes me look like a pro. Careful when taking zoom shots(28X with photos and 38X with video, you can makeout the outline of a person up to a mile away) at night as they tend to get blurry even so with moving objects, as expected even with high priced cameras, the camera has a hard time adjusting with less light. In the hands of a person who knows how to read a manual which you could get online off from Google, it's a great camera for the price. Plug and play as you go, it's a learning experience for beginners like myself, with time you get better. Takes continuous shots, 7 frames a second without flash. White Balance, Vividness, Hues and ISO(125-6400) adjustments are necessary to take great photos, balance is key. Hope this helped. Have a Nice Day. Smile!

It looks nice and feels good in my hand while carrying it . . . It seems to have all kinds of different settings for different circumstances . . . Maybe a professional photographer could tell you what they all mean but I can't. I just wanted to buy a nice camera for my vacation. I like to go hiking and I wanted to be able to take some really good nature pics with a really good camera . . . I should have saved my money and just stuck with my old Fujifilm. The main problem with this camera is that it seems to have a digital auto-focus that can't be turned off . . . Even though there is a setting in there that says to turn it off . . . There is no viewfinder, just a small digital screen . . . So I would sight in a picture by looking at the screen and everything would be picture perfect and clear as a bell . . . And then I would push the button to take the picture and everything would go fuzzy . . . I got 10 blurry blob pics of a chipmunk in the forest . . . You'll have to take my word for that because the pictures themselves are so bad that you really can't tell what it is you're looking at . . . The chipmunk was very accommodating and willing to pose for the photos . . . The view in the digital screen was beautiful and clear . . . And then I pushed the button and everything changes to crap. This problem seems to be more and more prevalent the more you are using the zoom lens . . . Which kind of defeats the purpose . . . The big zoom lens was the major selling point for me . . . After all, the chipmunks are only going to let you get so close and I don't want to get any closer to the bears than I have to in order to get a good picture. This problem occurred over and over again on close ups and on zooms . . . I tried various settings . . . I tried turning the auto focus off . . . I don't get it . . . I really want to say that this camera sucks . . . But it's probably just a matter of me not being a "professional" or "experienced" photographer and being unable to decipher the settings. Or, maybe it really does suck. In any case, I wish I hadn't bought this camera. And I don't recommend it to anyone.

Excelente producto, en precio y calidad, la resolucion del lente es maravillosa y de la grabación en full hd ni se diga

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Desde la compra muy buena atención y servicio, el producto llegó en perfectas condiciones y antes de lo estipulado, el mejor precio que pude encontrar entre todas las ofertas que vi por internet, muy buen producto, práctico y sencillo de operar, excelente la calidad de las fotografías!! La recomiendo al 100%!

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