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Nikon Coolpix 3700 3.2 Megapixel Compact Camera

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• Reviewed by: lotr_rules

  Updated: 05-13-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Months

  Strengths: Great pics, fast start up from powering on, easy to set up & let someone else take pics

  Weaknesses: Some features buried deep in menus

  Overall Evaluation: I did a ton of research on digicams, eventually deciding to get a Canon. However, at the camera store, the man behind the counter said they were out of that particular model, so he showed me the Coolpix 3700.I bought that & a case - & had buyer's regret. My husband told me to give it a chance, to start using it & see for myself if it was any good.The first shots I took were very good, & when I did a movie with my 2 howling Malamutes in the backyard, I warmed to it.I warmed even more when we went on vacation to San Francisco in April. A spectacularly sunny week - & the pics showed it! Shots taken by the Golden Gate Bridge, at Muir Woods, at the Wharf...you name it, the beautiful blues and reds et al. were spectacular.The one downside to all this is that I have yet to explore the camera's features, altho it would have been nice if Nikon did bury a lot of them; it's hard to remember where certain features are located if you're trying to take a quick shot!It has a solid feel and the price is just right (and who says you need more megapixels to get great pics?). The SD memory that comes with the digicam, as is typical, is nothing, so an upgrade to two 256 cards (they're pretty cheap now) should be enough memory to save plenty of pics.As for the included lithium battery, it lasted a couple of days, but I had come prepared by bringing 2 CP1 batteries (you can find them for a decent price at Wal-Mart). True, CP1s are disposable and thus aren't as eco-friendly as the rechargeables, but then what do you do when your rechargeable goes down in the middle of taking shots? That's why I suggest bringing along at least one CP1 battery, just in case.All in all, this is a wonderful point and shoot camera.

• Reviewed by: hutu

  Updated: 04-01-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Days

  Strengths: Inexpensive, good pictures, multiple modes.

  Weaknesses: Comparing to Canon SD300/200, this one is not as compact, and is much slower.

  Overall Evaluation: This is a decent DC for the price AR, but now the rebate has expired, I'd get Canon SD200 over this one. At the same price point and with comparable features, SD200 has more style and much faster speed.

• Reviewed by: karthikduraisamy

  Updated: 03-05-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:60 Days

  Strengths: Very Good Camera for Beginers.Sleek and Compact.Good Clarity of Pictures and Video Quality is ok.

  Weaknesses: I feel 3X Zoom is not good enough.But u cant get it for this price its worth 100% of your money

  Overall Evaluation: The Reason I gave 4 Stars is coz of the Zoom.Its 3 X Zoom and picture quality goes down after 2X.Actually its a 2 X camera.But its a very good beginers camera !! Its worth your money So play with it and have fun !!

• Reviewed by: iinedwin

  Updated: 03-04-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Months

  Strengths: Easy to use. Very compact and light. Comes with rechargable battery. Long battery life.

  Weaknesses: A little noise on the picture when shooting at a dim environment which I think is pretty normal for this kind of camera.

  Overall Evaluation: This is an excellent camera for point and shoot. I would recommend this camera for a day to day use since the size is very compact and light.

• Reviewed by: franklinhu

  Updated: 01-26-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:40 Days

  Strengths: size, ability to replace camcorder

  Weaknesses: audio sync problem

  Overall Evaluation: This is a great little camera. There are some problems with the audio lagging slightly behind the video (about 1/3 of a second). I do not normally notice it, but if you take a video of a ruler hitting a desk, it is pretty obvious. I have investigated various cures on the internet and have found none, but I don't think this is a really bad problem. I have compared the video quality against my DV camcorder and it is just as good, so I just use the camera and I can ditch the camcorder. Another problem was that my LCD viewfinder had a bad pixel. This is said to be "normal" in the Nikon manual, so if you're really picky about those things, you should buy it from someone who accepts returns no questions asked.

• Reviewed by: eugenewein

  Updated: 01-03-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:5 Days

  Strengths: Very compact and easy to use. Rechargable battery is also a good feature.

  Weaknesses: Some controls are too small if you have large fingers. Otherwise it is fine.

  Overall Evaluation: This is great camera from Nikon. I like its compact size, good zoom lens and rechargable battery. My over all experiance is very positive. I would recomend this camera to anyone, who is not bothered by small control bottons.

• Reviewed by: fsc

  Updated: 01-01-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:10 Days

  Strengths: nice metal built,excellent features, good battery life, sharp pics with real colours.impressive macro,sharp & clear LCD Display.

  Weaknesses: Not so good at indoor without flash but this is where DSLRs are required.Since its a pointnshoot so know its limitation.

  Overall Evaluation: Just bought this camera two weeks ago. Excellent model for pointnshoot category. Want a camera that takes all credit for capturing excellent sharp pics rather than me taking credit after changing a lot of manual setings and spending a lot of time. I want the experts to do the job for me and that is where Nikon is good at. Well I have the problem of selecting b/w sony W1 and Nikon 3700. When it comes to batteries,big LCD,manual shutter.Manual ISO and faster performance,more MPs i just want to go with W1 but on the other hand it had problems that u even cant tolerate with these above benifits. One of them is blurry,out of focus problems most of the time which is being reported by most of the users and by watching the W1 pics on pbase.com 6 out of 10 pics are blurry either due to hand shake, slow shutter or out of focus problems.Second its pic is soft when compared to others including Nikon and cannon.When they both combine (soft pics with blurry, out of focus ) , the pic quality is terrible.and when it comes to nikon they are really good at capturing real colours,good clarity along with sharp pics. And most of all its video mode is better than others which uses quicktime format .I compared the videos by downloading from reviews site and 3700 is clear and sharp.. finally there is a little bit noise when it comes to auto ISO that looks not good to eyes when watch it straight out of camera on Tv or moniter at 100 % but this feature gives u always sharp,bright and well exposed pics at the expense of some noise.But believe me this is far better than cameras that have built in noise reduction that washed out the highlights & details in pics. its better to have option to clean urself noise in noiseware or neatimage according to ur liking.

• Reviewed by: bioltb

  Updated: 12-23-04

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Weeks

  Strengths: Looks beautiful and small with decent image quality

  Weaknesses: A little noise when shooting in the dim

  Overall Evaluation: I bought this camera for my wife, obviously she has more interest with this one compared with my big heavy digital SLR. After these several days using, I find the picture quality is good enough for this kind of digital camera use for. The more important, it looks nice, small and convenient, the 640x480 30fps is fairly good, and it can even record unlimited audio. Now, I would like to use this camera as a secondary one (already owe Canon 300D) for my family that can be taken out and take photo at any time. I would highly recommend this camera to anyone. It is a fantastic little camera in all respects. You will have fun with it.

• Reviewed by: wneutron

  Updated: 12-06-04

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:21 Days

  Strengths: Good picture quality. Compact size, light weight, ease of use (my wife loves it). Good battery life. Pictures are great among cameras in this category.

  Weaknesses: None.

  Overall Evaluation: I have bought the Coolpix 3700 as a backup camera to my digital Rebel. I had considered an Powershot S410 but the price was too high for me. The 3700 is at a great price (with a $100 rebate) and the picture quality is good enough for 8x10 photos if I needed although it would mainly be used in 4x6 photo prints or on the TV as part of my video slides. I have not missed a single opportunity with this additional camera. In addition, it is a lot easier to ask someone else to take a group picture with the Coolpix than to handle an SLR. The download process to a Windows XP computer is easy, pretty standard with Microsoft's download wizard. It will also appear as a disk drive that allows you to manipulate the file content directly.

• Reviewed by: flyflybread

  Updated: 12-06-04

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:10 Days

  Strengths: it is pretty a good camera, i like it so much

  Weaknesses:

  Overall Evaluation: it is pretty a good camera, i like it so much, it is small, tiny, compact and the picture quality is very very good, beside, it is cheap, after the 100 dollars rebate, i like it so much

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