Complaining about Nikon Coolpix

It's my fault. Just like it's any consumer's fault -- for buying a product without adequately researching it. I lost my last digital camera: left it in a hotel room or rental car or whatever. So I decided to buy a new one on a whim. Went to BestBuy. Looked for the following: Digital camera that was small enough to be pocket sized, had 5x or better optical zoom, and 6mp or better resolution. Ended up with a cool looking, black Nikon Coolpix S550.

So what's my problem? I hate the Nikon Coolpix S550. The shutter speed is fine but the functions of the camera are so slow that I have missed really important shots. (Like my girlfriend's son's graduation from 8th grade.) These are functions like the time it takes the camera to wake up (not turn on, which is relatively fast); like the time it takes to react to zooming in (to refocus and set up the photo); like the time it takes to store the image to flash disk.

It keeps on going, though! The Coolpix S550 comes with a stupid little USB adapter that means the only way to move the photos off the camera is to remove the flash disk, put it in the adapter and put the adapter into the computer; at the least a laborious process. (Couldn't these people take a clue from the designers of the Flip video camera.) And why do digital camera designers insist on putting the on/off button right next to the shutter button? I turned the camera off at least three times today when trying to take a picture. And then, when you want to recharge the battery, you have to remove it and put in a little dock that itself has an entire power cord. (The camera I lost, from Lumix, had a battery dock that plugged directly into a power plug; no cord!) 

Thank you, dear reader: Now that I've got that off my chest, I'm going to buy another new digital camera.

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[glawaygiessy]

I agreed with you