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Enjoyable, except for the irritating errors, 29 Mar 2013

This is certainly an amusing read. Not falling-on-the-floor funny but definitely chortling-to-oneself funny. Well worth a read, especially as I got it for nowt.

However, Nick Abbot really should know that the word for 'belonging to who' is WHOSE, not WHO'S. After encountering this error for the umpteenth time I was gnashing my teeth. Do books not get proofread any more?

If you're less grammatically finicky than I am, this probably won't bother you at all, but I found it grating.

Had to give up in the end, 18 Jun 2012

I was so hoping that this camera would be brilliant. Most of the reviews for it were full of praise, and it was shiny red. What more could I want?

Immediately I noticed a very pronounced "oil painting" effect in images taking in anything other than blazing sunshine. I wrote to Fuji who said that in EXR mode, the camera sometimes "overcompensated" and chose too high an ISO setting, which could result in this effect.

Like an eejit, I accepted this explanantion and for the next 6 months or so I struggled on, getting average pictures and sometimes downright bad ones.

Eventually I contacted Fuji again, who told me to change the ISO setting, and not to use EXR… Read more

Small but perfectly formed, 18 Jun 2012

I bought this to replace a Fuji FinePix F500 which I eventually returned to Fuji because of the awful quality of the images it produced (despite being sent to them twice for investigation.)

The quality of the images is miles better than the Fuji, especially in low light conditions. I was a bit worried that there are no manual modes - everything is either automatic or done via "scenes" - but the Nikon seems to cope with pretty much everything I've thrown at it. There are loads of scene types, such as museum, sunrise, snow, beach, food, fireworks etc which cover everything you'll ever need. The night landscape mode is excellent at brightening up a gloomy image, even without a… Read more