Included with the camera, a battery in a plastic case, a plastic Stiftchen (Display pen), a power supply with USB output (USB Type A) USB cable on Nikon-plug and a cable Nikon connectors are on Audio-Video-RCA. In addition, a Quick Start Guide, warranty card and manual and two CDs with photo software are.
A positive feature is the battery charger with USB output and the charging ability of the camera to the USB port. So the charger can easily be exchanged for others or use z. B. a USB car adapter.
Unfortunately, the plug is the camera a Nikon proprietary connector, presumably to get the audio and video signals over the same connector. This allows use not any other USB cable.
Design
The design of the camera is unobtrusive and provides many other cameras in this segment similarly. The size is normal and it is good for a compact camera in hand. There are no protruding edges, which makes them easily slips into various pockets. The camera has only five buttons, which are all easy to reach and really can not be operated accidentally.
Service
For the first photos the operation is self-explanatory. Getting used to the touch screen, since each time you touch a photo is taken, but this can be disabled in the menu. The handling of the touch screen is easily who an ordinary smart phone, however, is used, will be slightly disappointed by the reaction speed and precision.
Continue to use the camera some installation problems emerge. Depending on the subject program is activated, no self-timer can be enabled or even the macro function is not available. Everything a little unwieldy. For some menu items is not entirely clear what such. B. is actually meant which means a HS-frame rate in the Video function. Here you would have to first time install the operating instructions of the CD. Without deal with the instruction sheet will be probably hardly know exactly what is a Smart Portrait and how and why to use the Scene position. In printed Quick Start Guide that everything had no place.
In addition to the scene modes and exposure compensation are hardly more options for picture composition available. Refrain you have to manually set the aperture, shutter speed or focus, but in this class of camera, the smallest number of users expected to disrupt. Adjustable is only the ISO number 125-3200.
The pity is that the camera partially relatively slow to respond to the shutter, mainly because of some lame autofocus. Is really very annoying that shortly after turning on the camera no response to the trigger follows, that the camera is turned on and immediately after the trigger is actuated, No photograph is taken, no matter how long you hold down the shutter button. Here you have to turn the camera on several (!) Wait seconds and then press the shutter button. Really no snapshot camera.
Image Quality
For main point of the camera: I am shocked. While most images show a balanced exposure and reasonably natural color. However, the noise is disturbing to see already at the lowest ISO value of 125 on almost all photos. For enlargements strong noise can be seen not only in uniform color areas but throughout the image area. With increased ISO values from 800 ISO enlargements act as pointillist art. Compared with a Fujifilm S304 from 2002 or a Nikon Coolpix 2200 in 2004 a sharp deterioration.
Positive actually surprised only the image stabilizer which allows twelve-fold zoom in most cases, blur-free images. Of course, the ISO value, the camera turns up here again, what usually makes the images by the noise then also unusable.
Conclusion
I can not understand how a leading global manufacturer of digital cameras nowadays so can bring a product to market. Although all possible gimmicks like touch screen, face recognition or subsequent image processing are integrated. However, it remained the image quality and the handling on the track. Unfortunately, the really impressive values as 16 megapixels, 12x optical zoom and Full HD video can not consolation for the lousy photos.
