Nikon COOLPIX A10, Silver

This is the simple little camera I want. Better than a smartphone by far, and just as light. With a smartphone I'm constantly wishing I could adjust things more. The only thing I miss with the Coolpix over the smartphone is, I can't tap the screen and say "focus here." That's literally the only downside.Occasionally the video was stuck in "zoomed in" status if I started the video while I was zoomed in. And some night time images can seem too blue. They seem to have added "vibrance" automatically I guess to avoid the washed out noisy look they had in older cameras. This makes them look too cool balanced. But it's not actually a problem unless you're taking wedding shots. And why would you, with this?It's really smart about night shots and automatic mode will tell you to hold still for a longer exposure if needed. The electronic shake reduction prevents this from causing a blurry picture though. It looks like a 1980s slightly grainy pic. But that's preferable to a blurry mess. In short, even in bad conditions, or with user error, it will work hard to give you a usable picture.I'm not sure why cameras are suddenly so expensive. I gave away my Coolpix (older generation, thinking I'll just use my phone). Now it's a few years later and I was like, oh well time to rebuy whatever new small camera is hot now and I was gobsmacked. What is up with the prices? I'm used to $150 price tags. Maybe $300 if splurging. But honestly I think the Coolpix is overlooked. And it got better in the time that I was trying to use my phone exclusively.It doesn't have any way to see how you're doing framing a selfie though. But did you know they sell little mirrors you can stick onto cameras? And the mirror helps you frame it. They look like tiny "back up mirrors" like you'd use on a car. They're dirt cheap, look in a dollar store. Save some dough.Power: You can carry some extra batteries for it, but it also hooks up to a plug for infinite power if you want to photograph products with it all day long.It has the hookup for a tripod.It uses a normal size SD card.You can tell it to take lower resolution pics to get smaller pictures so you reduce your editing time. Ditto the video quality. But honestly, just use Handbrake to reduce video size. It has presets, just pick one.All the accessories are still available, so buy them now. It's possible they'll be gone in a year when you might want them. They were cheap when I bought them. A few dollars for each one. I have a full set, including the video cable I may or may not use. That would be the "old school" way to "cast to a device" by using an RCA cable.Splurge on a hard case for the camera. The one thing that can destroy it is a fall from your hand or your pocket.

Was a gift for my mom, shes a fire fighter, She said she loved it! Easy to use, very portable, and withstood the heat of fire while maintaining beautiful picture quality. She however lost it when she took it with her. Her troop is deployed on fires for around 14 days straight. Just as they where coming back from a long fire in California (yes she has been one of the firefighter's fighting the Cali fires of 2018) it dropped from her pack never to be seen again. She was very bummed about it, didnt even get a chance to print any of her fire picture, which we where all bummed about. But she stood by her love of the short lived camera, and its beautiful pictures.

These are good quality cameras that last. I usually purchase the L32 for work but it is getting hard to find it available. The Coolpix L32 (Nikon COOLPIX L32) has a 20.1 mega pixels sensor and this one has a 16.1 mega pixels sensor and that makes a bit of a difference in picture quality but if this is something you would notice, you would not be getting a camera of this type.There are many cameras of this type that are either inexpensive and of bad quality or great quality but very expensive. This camera falls in a vanishing category of great quality at a reasonable price. This camera will take great quality pictures at 16.1 mega pixels and it is important to note that the zoom is optical which means that you will not give up any of the resolution when you zoom in. If your goal is to get the best quality you can get, and this camera does not make you happy, I do not think that the L32 would make you much happier so you will have to move to professional cameras that have detachable lenses and you are looking at many times the price.There is something that you will not like about this camera and the only reason I gave it 4 stars. The world is moving fast to 4K video resolution but unfortunately this camera cannot even do 1080p recording. Considering that most cell phones today have 1080p video recording capabilities, you would think that a device that all it does is camera functions, would at least have the ability to record 1080p video. If you are looking for a quality camera that is easy to use and you want it to last, this camera is highly recommended. But be sure first that you just need a camera for pictures and not for video. This may be the reason why these cameras are at the brink of extinction, they are great picture cameras but our mobile devices have spoiled us so much that we do not want just a picture camera any longer. When we consider buying a camera, we do it because we want something better than what we already have in our pocket and that usually means that we are looking for optical zoom and quality lenses with quality video capabilities.If you are still interested in this camera, here are some things that you may want to know:1) It has an easy to view 2.7" screen.2) Operation is very simple and the menus are easy to figure out without having to read a manual.3) It uses 2 AA batteries that you can buy everywhere. I had cameras with rechargeable batteries that go dead if I do not use the camera for a few months or their charger is proprietary and when it is broken or lost, it costs a lot to replace it. I love the simplicity of just putting 2 new commonly used batteries and be good to go.4) It takes the full size SD memory card which means that you can just put in an adapter (many micro SD cards come with a free adapter) and turn it to a micro SD card while you will not have to throw away your old full size cards.As for durability, we use cameras for the nursing staff to take pictures of patients and enter them to our electronic health record (EHR) software. We also use them for employee badges. Although we do not need high resolution pictures for these functions, when we get the less expensive cameras, they do not last for more than a few months. I always find them dead or the battery compartment door broken and held by rubber bands. So I have been replacing those $30.00 to $50.00 cameras with the Coolpix L32 and this A10 and I do not have any problems anymore.Note that this camera does not come with a USB cable unless you purchase the bundle and it has a non standard connector. You can either use a USB card reader like this one Rocketek 11 in 1 USB 3.0 Memory Card Reader, or you can buy the USB cable here, Nikon 25851 UC-E16 USB Cable, which costs about 12 bucks at the time of this review.