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“Overall, the Nikon Coolpix 3100 is an excellent small...”

written by David Castle on 12/05/2004

Good Points
Excellent photos in uniform moderately bright light. Small, light camera. Works in dark conditions. Great macro.

Bad Points
In non-normal light conditions, one must manually adjust the exposure; and this is not easy to do.

Exposure too sensitive to sky. Better to have used centre-weighted metering.

General Comments
Overall, the Nikon Coolpix 3100 is an excellent small digital camera that takes good photos in "normal" conditions. A pure point-and-shoot so don't expect too much.



All functions accessible by menus. This is a real pain; and difficult to remember where everything is.

Default is flash on auto and must be turned off in dark conditions.

Camera so small it is difficult not to tilt the camera when taking photos.

In dark conditions, the camera under-exposes the pictures so one must manually (and by eye) over-expose the photo by as much as 1 stop.



Takes excellent photos in uniform moderately bright light.



The camera is over-sensitive to bright parts of the picture. One has to minimise the amount of sky in landscapes or everthing else comes out badly under-exposed.



the view finder shows an excessily small part of the picture; so much so it can only really be used in emergency (like when one can not see the LCD screen.



The batterys that came with my camera where useless and I had to replace them. The camera is particular about what card it uses. The first two I used failed (the one supplied is too small to be of much use).



Camera small and light and if these are important to you, this is a major feature.