Nikon Coolpix S4 6MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom

Nikon Coolpix S4 6MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom

Funky twists and turns make any shot a reality with this Nikon Coolpix digital camera. The body has a unique swivel design to provide the flexibility you need to take creative shots taken from low and high angles. An added bonus: it fits in your pocket. The camera's massive 2.5" LCD screen offers easy viewing and playback and the Nikon Exclusive Feature System takes the challenge out of digital photography by turning pictures into photographs with easy one-touch or no-touch solutions.
Customer Review: looks good on paper
not worth the money. takes fuzzy pictures. eats batteries real quick. quite a disappointment
Customer Review: Great photos but slow and cumbersome
I bought a 4 megapixel Sony DSC S90 last Christmas, and it worked fine, but I thought I could do better. Taking pictures of flats like books and magazines all day long, I thought a camera with a swivel lens design was exactly what I needed. That way I could point the lens down while keeping the LCD at eye range and not have to bend over all day. The Nikon Coolpix S4 is the only one currently on the market with that swivel body many people understandably love (I thought about getting an old Nikon Coolpix 4500 with a puny 1.5 inch LCD off ebay, but that's taking a big gamble). I hate to say it because it sounds so innovative, but this swivel design may not be for me. I just find the S4 cumbersome, a lot harder to handle than the Sony. It takes longer to set up than the Sony. Also, 90% of the time I was getting that blur warning - well, it's hard to keep the camera steady when you have to press hard down on the shutter to get it to go (pressing it halfway sets the camera's exposure but why not be able to set it some other way??). You just have to tap the shutter on the Sony - I took for granted how nice and easy it was. I thought the blur warning on the S4 would be terrific because I would upload pictures from the Sony into my PC and then see that some (not many) were a bit blurry, and I'd have to debate going back and setting up shots again. But the 2.5 inch Sony LCD is nice and clear, so usually you can tell if the picture is going to be blurry. The Nikon 2.5 inch LCD is NOT nice and clear so you DO need that blur warning set to ON. I'll try it for a couple of more days, taking pictures with the blur warning off, and see how sharp they look on my computer. But I believe I'm headed back to the Circuit City returns department to pay that bloody 15% restocking fee. Check prices