The review about this product
I bought this camera for my wife and she's loving it. We were looking for a really good p&s with a great auto mode and we narrowed our choices to the Nikon 8100, Sony HX5V, ZS5 and Canon SX210is. We decided to go with the Nikon because of the 1080p video, cmos chip for lowlight shooting and 914k pixel LCD. The pics come out beautiful but you may need to reshoot sometimes due to flash overexposure or blurriness in low light (pretty standard with these mega zoom compacts). The video is also great just be sure to get a class 6 SDHC card or better and change the options to HQ video and pics(for some reason Nikon defaults to the lower quality). I also recommend not using the continuous AF (you'll hear clicking sounds in the video).
I'm not crazy about Nikon not supplying a battery charger, instead you charge the battery in the camera with the usb cord. Come on Nikon! It also doesn't automatically reposition pics taken in portrait mode (you'll need to put the camera upright to review). Hopefully they fix that with updated firmware. I wish the wide zoom (30mm) was better but it's ok. The menus could be a little more intuitive and a printed manual would have been great (it's on a disk like all other camera's these days). Finally, the software Nikon supplies is lousy. Come to think of it, all photo software from camera manufacturers is lousy. Just go with Picasa for photo organizing and light editing and Photoscape for more robust editing. Both free.
Anyway, it may sound like I'm nitpicking but it is a pretty good p&s. A few firmware fixes will make this camera shine. I recommend it for someone wanting a simple to use camera, great pics, low light, 10x zoom and stereo 1080p video. If you want manual controls look elsewhere.
