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.

I have nothing bad to say about this camera. The zoom is capable of bringing in a clear picture of a bird sized object at over 100 yards. The Wi-Fi is internal to the camera and works perfectly moving my pictures from the camera to my cell phone. A small downside to the Wi-Fi is that it's a bit difficult to set up, that said, it's really not that difficult and once in place it works perfectly, you do however, have to download the Nikon app onto your cell phone. I have gotten perfect photos without the flash in a darkened environment. The HD quality videos you can take with this camera are crisp and clear. The camera is lightweight, compact and is ready for use within a couple of seconds of turning it on. The camera has the capability of taking several photos one after another with almost no reload time between each photo. I looked at a lot of cameras, for the price this is certainly one of the best. If you're a professional photographer, I don't think I could suggest this for you. If you're like me, a person who likes to be able to take professional looking pictures without carrying around a load of attachments this is the camera for you.

i don't like giving reviews before i have had plenty of time to test a product, which is why you get 4 stars and not 5, as i am still testing. i do a lot of testing. most of my effort is in low light. weakness- on off button too small and too low profile. 2nd, button to view pictures just below hand grip. i understand why its there, but move it. camera's are for taking pictures not viewing them. when i hold the camera in one hand to take a picture, the 1st knuckle joint can hit this button as i squeeze to take the shot. this button changes the camera mode to view pictures. which means that ones in a life time photo was missed. move that button. i noticed a drop in quality when sequence shots, the latch on the battery compartment feels weak, . in my opinion, this is what will end the life of the camera when it fails... duct tape to the rescue. i know i'm being hard, but thats who you want to hear from. . now the good stuff. its a great camera, your not a professional, professionals are not looking at point and shoot cameras. so buy the camera. i'm not going to be a sales man, and run threw all that's good, i gave it 4.5 stars, that tells you my thoughts. low light is the big test for any camera, point this at the sky at night, take a picture and you can see the stars in the photo. the camera greatly exceeded my expectations in low light, normal lighting, i'm still testing, but all cameras can handle normal, its speed and lighting, the win the day for cameras. i have tested the lighting, it passed, the speed, i haven't tested, it winter. it's cold, so testing is delayed. 4.5 stars, i would buy it again.

Great camera for the price! I bought this camera as my first camera while learning photography and it has done nothing but help me learn the art. It is a lot easier to learn on a bargain camera, because you can see how far you have come and it makes you realize it just isn't he camera. While yea, you will get great photos with a great camera, but it isn't just the camera. You need someone knows how to use it. As someone who uses it for automotive photography, it is like learning to be a race car driver. The best great car drivers didn't just hop in the fastest cars and start practicing. They practiced in slow and cheap cars when they first started.With all the pros, there are some cons, but I put the cons are things you aren't paying for. The video is good, but the audio sucks, and there is no microphone jack to attached to it. The focus isn't the best in the camera, but it is doable. Also, it is a bitch when it comes to indoor photography. But all in all, I absolutely love this thing. While I will probably upgrade sometime in the future, this will always be a camera I will have close to my heart.