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"YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED" on by iCenturion
Pros: Great pictures, bright LCD, well built, looks great
Cons: Battery Life
Summary: I have the S50 not the S50c. Same camera without WiFi. Great pictures day or night. With Hi-ISO turned on, pictures taken in low light come out bright and clear. The VR gives clear pictures at full zoom. The movies with sound are clear and smooth. The camera is well built, turns on very fast so you won't miss those great pics. The 3 inch LCD is bright and clear day or night. The only thing else you have to buy is an extra battery...
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"I'm reviewing the S50 - not S50c" on by jessiethe3rd
Pros: Size, image quality, VR, SCREEN
Cons: No screen protector, menu system a bit confusing
Summary: First off let me start off by saying the reviews for this camera SUCK. I do not have the network version... I have a black S50. I also own a D80 with professional glass (70-200 VR & 17-55 lens)... needless to say I know pretty solid equipment. With that in mind I needed a quick and light camera for casual outtings. The S50 is just sexy. Everyone who sees it wants to touch it - the screen is massive and makes all the other mini cameras cry like sissy girls. Image quality? Very solid. The VR antishake functionality is spectacular and provides stable images. High ISOs are pretty much worthless... it creates far too much noise to be useful in general lighting situations.
I have switched to Nikon completely because they just make better products in my opinion. My only compliant is I wish they would standardize their menuing system (the DSLR menu'ing system is easy and fast) -
"WI-FI is VERY Limited" on by mikeschumann
Pros: Nice Menu Navigation System
Cons: Can't xfer pictures to home computer with WI-FI
Summary: I bought this camera for one reason only: the built in WI-FI capability. It appears that Nikon took a big step backwards from the S7C. You can only use the WI-FI to transfer pictures to Nikon's Coolpix Connect Server. You can't use this to directly transfer pictures to your home computer.
This is a HUGE disappointment. To transfer pictures to your home computer, you apparently need to use the USB cable, which itself is also disappointing. It is a combined USB, Video cable. As a result it is BIG!
This camera is going back tomorrow. -
"not what I expected" on by jon159785
Pros: wifi large screen scroll wheel
Cons: image stabilization power button location lens cover
Summary: I 'upgraded' to the S50c from my S7c. I loved the wifi on the S7c and wanted to get the same thing with image stabilization. I have a D70 and use my point-and-shoot for parties and other situations where it's not feasible to lug the SLR.
Moving from the S7c to the S50c I found it to be a step down in image quality. From the reading I've done, I found the S7c actually had better quality optical components and the pictures show. I thought the VR would help me get more keepers, but I actually found it to be just the opposite. I found that I actually had more blurry pictures because the stabilization was not fast enough to fix it. If I made sure to hold perfectly still, then I could get sharper pictures using the VR out of this camera than the S7c, but it took a lot of effort to hold the camera perfectly still for the VR to do its thing and that's just not practical at a party, etc where this camera is used.
The other big detractor from this camera is the location of the power button. It sticks up and is way too easy to accidentally hit when the camera is in a pocket. Numerous times I would pull the camera out of my pocket to find that it is either a) already on, or b) the battery is dead because it has been on so much.
Other than those two glaring things, I like the camera, particularly the scroll wheel to move quickly through all of the pictures.
My last beef with the camera is that the movies are stored in .mov format. Without spending some dough on a movie editor that supports .mov I can't edit any of the pictures with some of the commonly available free video editors such as Windows Movie Editor. I also had a couple issues when opening the .mov files with quicktime that it corrupted the file system on my computer and i had to reformat and reinstall, I won't completely attribute that to the camera, but I'm not taking any chances and thus this camera is going on the auction block to be replaced by something with a different movie format and better located power button. -
"Very cool design, features and software" on by ThePriceIsWrong
Pros: WiFi connectivity, software interface and scroll wheel
Cons: Picture quality, battery life
Summary: The scroll wheel and software interface was easy to learn. There arent many customizable settings on this so its hard to get good pictures at night or fast motion.
WiFi works well as long as you dont have to enter a WEP key. If you have to enter a WEP Key it can get pretty tedious.
The size makes it perfect for pocket portability but the face of the screen will get scratched pretty easily.
All in All I really liked this camera.
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