Nikon COOLPIX P610 Digital Camera with 60x Optical Zoom and Built-In Wi-Fi (Black)

I love my Nikon cameras and this P610 is a great camera. It has a 60x zoom and takes great pictures both zoomed in or not. I actually have 2 of them 1 black and 1 red. Each has a specific use.

My husband and I decided to upgrade our camera since we were about to be going on an Alaskan cruise and wanted to get amazing pictures of the views. We looked at several different cameras and researched them and were going back and forth between a point and shoot and a DSLR when we came across this one. We like the price and after reading the reviews decided that this might be the camera for us. We didn't want to have to mess with changing lenses and have to have a bunch of extra pieces so this was nice that it was just one solid camera to do the type of picture taking that we wanted. We got it a month before the cruise and practiced taking pictures and it was very easy. This zoom is amazing. We have crystal clear pictures from Alaska of the mountains and glaciers and wildlife and we were able to zoom so close that the glaciers felt like they were right in front of us. I got backup batteries but on the whole 12-day vacation I only had to charge the battery twice. We are so glad that we got this camera, it is everything we hoped for and more!

I bought this camera to take on a safari trip to Africa. I had friends who told me that I did not need as much zoom as this camera had and that the fully extended zoom would be difficult to stabilize. I didn't have a lot of time to get familiar with the camera. So, I left it set on automaticsetting most of the time. Contrary to what my friends said, I did use the fully extended zoom a number of times -- you can only get so close to a leopard up a tree. My pictures were incredible. The colors and the focus were terrific. There were others on safari with mega expensive cameras who were taking down the information about my camera because they were so impressed with the pictures I managed to get. It is wonderful to make a purchase and end up thinking that it was a great buy. I would recommend this camera heartily. I also cannot wait to spend some more time with it so that I'll be able to use more of the features on my next safari trip. Just a great camera for the price!!

I'd decided on a point and shoot, no more lens changing and lugging lenses around! Great success with a Lumix fz 50 convinced me point and shoot was for me . I explored on-line , just to see what was new & great. I liked the idea of the larger telephoto. and tried the P-610 out. I love it, Pictures are great, easy to use except, It is a bit small for my hands. After getting used to it I found it a simple likable camera that I've grown to really like! (I still use the fz 50, on occasion because I prefer its manual zoom!)I just take pictures and this camera works for me!UPDATE- While I still love love this little camera, it has developed a problem holding a charge and is headed for the repair shop at nikon. The problem started when I used a after-market battery designed for this camera.I am having trouble believing Amazon, is indeed selling junk, but this failure seems to bare this out. May 14 of this ear to August 14Th, 3months and Amazon will (per their policy) will not exchange this camera. They sold the camera, they sold me the batteries and 3 months later it is my problem--go figure how that makes the customer right? COME ON AMAZON STOP SELLING CRAP!AMAZON WHERE'S THE EASY BUTTON TO TALK TO CUSTOMER SERVIC, TALK ABOUT NOT WANTING TO STAND BEHIND YOUR SALES.Update 8/22/15--Thank You Amazon for replacing this camera or offer refund. I will update this review, later on!discussion comments: Dale, thanks for your comments, I agree and indeed, I did suspect the batteriesinitially. I conducted tests and finally purchased new batteries. All ran down in the camera. Now I have the new camera and so far it is fine! Was the camera bad, batteries or perhaps charger? I do know buying something that fails so quickly is not acceptable! I am not a test/repair center. I am interested in keeping potential customers informed. Was this a fluke, or common incident?--that's the purpose of reviews. My thoughts are this must be a rare occurrence, hence the exchange, rather than refund.Update 8/9/15Thanks to Amazon, I received a new Nikon Coolpix p610. At first no problems, unfortunately it was a very short time frame, before the 2nd camera failed! Battery death averaged 28 photo's before it failed!after looking up this camera, I find that it is a failure mode that others are experiencing! (check DP Review, problems with the Nikon Coolpix P610 &P900). The camera takes excellent telephoto pictures and is a pleasure to use! My question for Nikon is what's the real deal on this camera? Are you going to correct the problem or keep dumping them on loyal customers?THANK YOU AMAZON FOR ACCEPTING THE RETURN!

{I wrote this review last year but just realized I never hit submit, so it was never posted, so I'm posting it now, because I still haven't been able to update.} We bougth this camera on April 26, 2016 and we have loved it and would have gladly given it five stars, but after a year and five months. everytime we leave the battery in the camera it drains the battery. We have bought new batteries and also kept the others charged, but it happens everytime we forget to take the batteries out. I called and was told to update the firmware, but although I have tried that over and over it will not update, and the batteries keep draining, which was really upsetting on a recent vacation, because it quit at a time when we were wanting to take photos of a place we were visiting, and had forgotten to take extra batteries. Ater paying this much for a camera it should have an automatic update or something, because it certainly should not be having these problems after only a year and five months! 4/14/19 It now says the firmware is updated but it still drains the battery EVERYTIME I leave it in the camera!

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