Nikon COOLPIX L840 Digital Camera with 38x Optical Zoom and Built-In Wi-Fi (Red)

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 did quite a bit of research before deciding to buy camera. I want to start off by saying that I did not buy this because I wanted to start doing photography. I bought this camera because I want to start modeling, but I needed a decent camera in order to take pictures. I also wanted to start dabbling in the art of YouTube, and this camera has 1080hp. I started taking some pictures as soon as I got it. Mind you, it was horrible lighting in my room and the lamp I have gives the room an awkward glow. The pictures didn't come out too bad, but they weren't exactly the quality I wanted.That being said, I was in a different room last night with low lighting and the picture I captured was not bad at all. I also took some pictures during the day and I can say it was much different. Another thing I had to realize was that pictures don't always look too great until after you edit them. Once I edited the pictures that I had taken I was in love with my camera.So again, I'm giving this camera 4 stars and not 5 just because I wish it would do a little bit better with low-lighting. Aside from that, its wonderful. It has a chunky grip to it which makes it easier to hold and it's just a beautiful design. Love it, and hopefully you will too!

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!