Nikon COOLPIX S3700 Digital Camera with 8x Optical Zoom and Built-In Wi-Fi (Silver)

I have owned four or five digital cameras, going back to about 1999. Over the years, I have seen these cameras evolve, becoming more powerful, with more capacity and features, and at increasingly lower prices. I have a perfectly good Canon Powershot SX 150 and it takes fantastic pictures, although it is a bigger camera than this one. But like all people who are looking to find even more features at a better price-point, and also looking for a very thin, pocket size camera, after doing lots of online research, I settled on this Nikon. First of all, it is small. It is thin and it has many features that I will not go into, as they are readily available in the product description. Suffice it to say that I am impressed by this camera. The photos are crisp, the menus are intuitive, and making adjustments are straightforward. I will not be using the Wi-fi or video features, but would expect them to work very well indeed, based on the photos. The zoom. while not exactly earth-shaking is more than adequate for the amateur or serious amateur. If you ant more than 8X and are a serious camera enthusiast, get one of the $1K+ big boys. The EN-EL 19 battery is wafer thin, and takes a while to charge, but holds the charge quite well. I will probably get a backup battery and charger for trips. The camera took a 16GB SDHC class 10 card without a glitch. I am sure it will provide all the capacity I will need. One last thing, The instructions that come with the camera are pretty basic. But, as is becoming standard practice, you can go to the Nikon website and download the BIG instruction manual. 1-22-2016: I have now had this camera for about 9 months. I recently took on a trip to Hawaii and took around 500 photos at the highest resolution. Also took about 16 minutes of videos. The SDHC micro card easily handled all this information. My experience is that you can get about 300-350 photos on a single charge. Beforehand, I bought a spare battery and charger to take along. It paid off, as there was one time I had run out of juice, and changing over to the new battery took about 30 seconds. All in all, this is a fine camera. It does, as you may suspect, have limitations compared to other more expensive cameras -- wish the optical zoom was higher, but I do like the thinness of the camera. It fit easily into a small side cargo pocket on my shorts, and there was really no bulge at all. It's a keeper.

Nikon has my attention. Owning several cameras during my life, at 68 I am a more seasoned user since I did take photos for many years with a Mamiya 1000 DTL SLR and numerous lenses and filters. Now I am seeking the lightest weight camera, with the highest megapixels and a decent zoom ability - with a user friendly in-camera menu... and of course a better battery source than rechargeable alkaline batteries (which I find very frustrating at best). I own a ten year old Fuji Finepix E550 - and for it's time, a great little, light weight camera. I have reviewed the real manual (which is downloadable through the Nikon website) - and printed out pages I need to review until they are memorized. The in-camera menus are* intuitive and while the screen is tiny for my tired old eyes - put on your reading glasses and proceed! The buttons and menus are well organized - the "on/off" button is a little tiny, but unless you have super large hands - should not be an issue. Not having a 'view finder' is a drawback - but in such a tiny camera, I will get used to using the screen. My first few photos taken were excellent and I am a happy camper. I hope this camera holds up well since I love it already.

I received this camera just yesterday and already planning on returning it. I bought this camera as a "on the go" camera to just toss in my purse and carry around instead of my nice but large Panasonic professional camera. Though the camera is certainly nice and very small, if feels very cheap. I thought i was going to break it just inserting the battery and the memory card. I have taken about 25 pictures so far (night time, day time, indoor, outdoor, kids, dog, flower, selfie). every single one of these picture is blurry and looks distorted. Making me actually guess how is it possible for this camera to be a 20.1 megapixel. My iPhone camera takes better pictures than this. The digital screen quality is below mediocre making it really hard to see what you are taking a picture of. The lens is very slow on the zoom and struggles to focus on time. The WiFi interface is so below par with the rest of today's technology that I am surprised it's even a feature. All in all, very disappointed.

My 5 year old daughter has been wanting her own digital camera for awhile. My husband has a nice DSLR that he sometimes let her use (with supervision) and she did well with it, so we tried to find her a point and shoot she could have more freedom with for her 5th birthday. She loves the camera and having the freedom to take it wherever she goes and take pictures without help. She is still learning to use the DSLR, but in the meantime she can still take her own pictures and get decent prints. She is also learning to do some basic photo editing and has her own little online gallery and loves to do "art photography". Great camera for a kid who is into photography and it would be a great camera for any adult that wants decent prints of vacations and kids. This also takes pretty decent videos in the right lighting. Nothing fancy, but good enough for a kid who wants to edit videos for youtube.

Now that I've had this camera a few months, I feel I can properly review it: This is a surprisingly great little camera. Is it the best camera ever? No, of course not. It's a point and shoot camera. But it's a good one. I've not owned a Nikon before and decided to give it a try. There's a lot less features on this then other, similar cameras on the market, especially in regards to different "modes". For the most part, I don't even notice that the modes are limited to under ten, though I do miss my Sunset mode. Where this camera shines in in the close-up, detailed nature shots. The colors it can capture at close range are amazing for a point and shoot, and I find it focuses easily even against reds and purples that other cameras have trouble with. Everything is crisp in the Marco setting, and if you are out of focus, you can try before clicking the button all the way and taking the picture; the display is that good. The place where this camera looses some of its' appeal is in action shots. For me, this is not a big deal since I mainly take nature photos; nothing is moving in the frame. However, if you plan to take action or speed shots, this may not be the best option. It takes a moment (even without a flash) to snap the picture. This can mean you might miss something darting by. The menus and displays are slower, too, and the camera takes a minute between each shot, and when you turn it on, and so forth. I'm not sure what the delay is about, but if you can be patient with it, you probably won't mind. All in all, this is a great camera for the price, and that's all any of us can ask for.

Item as described. Fast shipping. Excellent condition .

The camera takes great pictures, until you try to put the memory card in and it says it’s write protected and won’t let you take pictures. I took it to multiple stores, and bought 3 different memory cards and it still wouldn’t work. I wish the seller would’ve put this in the description because it was a lot of money wasted.

This version of the cool pics is not as good as the previous version. It is thinner. They didn’t improve the quality of the microphone at all, so when there’s when that’s all you hear on the video. This one has a timer on video, and it will not let you record more than 24 minutes before it automatically turns itself off. I am so not happy about that. It’s missing some of the functions that the previous model had. The auto-focus is slower. Does he get the job done to have a small handy, high megapixel camera that’s easy to tote around? Yes. However, I’m not pleased with the decrease in quality and limited function.