Nikon Coolpix S50 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom (Black) by Nikon
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Digital camera reviews of Nikon Coolpix S50 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom (Black)
Digital camera Review: DO NOT PURCHASE!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this camera about 3 weeks ago, and have used it a total of about 4 times. It might take great photos, but after only a few uses, I discovered an internal error in my camera. Much to my surprise, I thought by paying more money for a camera, it would be of better quality--but truth be told, it was not. The camera started malfunctioning by automatically shutting off after a picture was taken--ON A CHARGED BATTERY, and then it would randomly turn on and shoot pictures like it was possessed. I'm returning it tomorrowDigital camera Review: Fallas en las fotos
Summary: 2 Stars
Yo compre esta camara, por que a mi criterio las Nikon son buenas, sin embargo esta camara, me causo desilusión, en algunas fotos, aparecen unos puntos blancos, como si fueran agua, malogrando la calidad de las fotos. Hubo algun comentario al respecto anteriormente, pero no le preste atencion, sin embargo me arrepiento no haber hecho caso. Este problema usualmente ocurre de noche. No en el dia. No tengo la foto para adjuntar y puedan apreciar.Digital camera Review: GOOD ENOUGH -JUST GET IT AND HAVE FUN
Summary: 5 Stars
i HAVE BEEN HAVING FUN WITH MY COOLPIX S50C FOR A WEEK NOW. i USED IT IN BRIGHT SUNLIGHT (90 DEGREES AND NO CLOUDS) THE SCREEN WAS WASHED OUT A BIT BUT THE PICTURES WERE GREAT. i DONT THINK PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE PICTURES AT NOON ON A HOT DAY- WE CANT CONTROL THE WEATHER ON GRADUATION DAY - SO I HAD TO TEST FOR ALL SITUATIONS. EVERYONE THAT HAS SEEN MY CAMARA THINKS ITS GREAT. THE COLOR IN THE 3" SCREEN IS JUST BEAUTIFUL. SO SPEND A FEW DOLLARS AND SAVE AN IMAGE AND MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY. PETER FROM PROVIDENCE, R.I.Digital camera Review: Good camera if you can avoid the white spots!
Summary: 3 Stars
I already have an extended zoom Kodak Z612 so I was looking for a small pocket friendly camera for casual occasions. Did a lot of research and based on good experience with an S1 when I bought it for a friend over a year ago I decided to go with this stylish new S50, afterall the feature set is great!
Nikon's legendary lens in a compact stylish all metal body and a birght beautiful 3" LCD to boot, not to mention Optical/Electronic VR! I thought I'd finally found my match, so I thought.
I had this camera for about a week and managed to shoot 280 pictures in three graduation ceremonies in varying light conditions.
The camera really shined during daylight and dusk pictures! The "Dusk" scene mode beautifully captures the purple/red hues in the horizon. The "Night Portrait" outperformed my Kodak and captured beautiful skin tones. Overall pictures are softer than those of say, Canon PowerShot SD series but about the same detail level as Kodak Z612. Also, I found the Face Detection feature to work fine but sometimes it would hesitate as much as 2-3 seconds before detecting a face even when subject was looking straight in the lens.
Shooting performance is a bit on the slow side but should satisfy most casual shooters. Auto Focus does hunt from time to time specially in low light which is common in compact cameras.
What really put me off though was the 3rd. set of pictures I shot at a ceremony. They were full of varying levels of white spots all over them! I had once before experienced something like this with a Canon S400 a couple of years ago but that was nothing close to the problem on this camera. Mind you, it only happens when using flash and under specific circumstances which I have been unable to figure out.
Contacted Nikon who were not really helpful and couldn't really explain it to me. So I did my own reasearch on the net and it appears its might be some light from the flash bouncing off the lens internally.
Either way the slower than average performance had me on the fence already and ruining one of my most important set of pictures ever left me with a single choice, to take it back to BestBuy...
I replaced it with the Sony DSC-T100, my first Sony digital camera in nearly 6 years which I have to say I'm delighted with. It has much faster performance, has a 5X zoom lens, has a more advanced Face Detection (Varies the AF, AE and the Flash intensity which S50 doesn't) and is a bit smaller than the Nikon. In defense of Nikon S50, it uses SD cards and has more scene modes.
So if you are considering this camera, do buy it and try it! It might have been that my model was defective and the white spots issue isn't wide spread but if you are on the fence between this camera and the sony DSC-T100 don't even think about it twice, get the Sony.
But overall I'd still recommend the S50 for specific reasons I already explained above and hopefully your model won't be defective like mine.
Digital camera Review: Good picture quality, poor manufacture
Summary: 3 Stars
I got this camera because I have always been a big fan of Nikon cameras and thought they take great pictures.
Well, I am not disappointed at the pictures, they look so much better than the one were taken from my husband's Casio camera (in my opinion).
But after a few months of using it, the problems started to come one after another. The camera would just automatically turn on in my purse causing the battery to die quickly, which does not have a very long life anyway (long enough to take pictures in one day if you are lucky). And the 2 silver pieces on two sides fell off. And one day the lens cover got stuck half way and I could not do anything with it, couldn't turn it off, couldn't turn it on, and I removed the battery but that didn't help either.
But it seems like a lot of people complain about the same things so obviously mine is not the only one to have these issues.
I'm still using it right now after I fixed it myself, and still happy with the way the pictures look, but I would not recommend it to anyone since it's not worth it for this price