Nikon Digital Cameras Item ID: #205Nikon Coolpix S620 12.2MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Vibration Reduction (VR) Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD (Jet Black)Product Information:
Item DescriptionNikon Coolpix S620 12.2MP 4X 2.7in. LCD VR Digital Camera in Jet Black. Item Reviews5 Responses to “Nikon Coolpix S620 12.2MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Vibration Reduction (VR) Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD (Jet Black)”Leave a Reply |
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I had the Nikon S610, which I loved until it was dropped and broken. I wanted to replace it, but went ahead and read the reviews on the S620 and the S630. The S630 got pretty bad reviews, so I went with the S620. Huge mistake. I, frankly, HATE this camera. I’ve lost so many photo opportunities – my best friend as he said, “I do” for one – because this camera would not focus because the light was too weak, or too bright, or because the subject wasn’t the exact right distance away, or because the wind was blowing in the wrong direction. The camera simply will NOT focus if the conditions aren’t ideal – I would say at least half of the photos I take are blurry because the camera was unable to focus. Simple portraits – a friend standing still in front of a fountain, sun high in the sky – come out blurry. I have NEVER had these types of issues with a camera, especially a Nikon. After owning and loving the S610, buying and attempting to use this camera has been a nightmare. Please, pass on the S620 and buy the S610, an older but FAR SUPERIOR version of this camera.
Love the camera-needed an upgrade after I dropped my s-550 in the sand lense side down! Did some research; great point and click camera. Great shot quality, even without flash! After turning it on it has a slight second delay before it takes a picture or goes to play mode but other than that I have no complaints. Love the color, love the pictures, love the sleekness. Highly recommended!
This is quite a good camera. My only problem is that it takes too long to capture the image when taking a picture.
Whilst this camera takes fairly nice photos, it’s very slow to focus. I’ve missed a few key photos while waiting for the camera to be ready to shoot.
Additionally, I noticed a few months after I got it that the small screws on both sides of the camera had fallen out. One day the side panel just fell off. I have yet to be able to get this fixed but I imagine that a Nikon store should be able to help.
For me, the camera is too bulky to carry around in a small purse but it takes good pictures.
My 2 cents
We bought this camera to replace a less-than half as expensive one that our two-year-old slammed to the ground in a tantrum. In hindsight, I wish we had re-bought that one.
The “Auto” setting is guaranteed to produce blurry, yellow pictures in anything other than incandescent or natural light. If you have good lighting, then you get blurry pictures with vivid color. If you tinker with the manual settings, you can get a picture in non-natural lighting that is nice, but if you forget to change it in other settings, I.E. you’re chasing your toddler inside and outside, then it wrecks all your other pictures. This completely defeats both the purpose of “auto” and the fact that we elected to spend extra on the camera because we’re not professional photographers and don’t want to be. If fluorescent bulbs were a concept invented last week then I’d be more forgiving, but come on Nikon, they have been around for a very long time, learn to deal with them already.
I’m not sure why the pictures are blurry, but it seems all the fancy steadying tech supposedly in this camera is junk. My 2-year-old $120 camera didn’t have any of it and those pictures are much sharper (and properly white-balanced in “auto”).
Having spent more on this camera than on any camera prior and not being the sort of folks that just have $250 to burn, we were extremely cautious with it. After getting about 300 pictures on it, the shutter button is permanently stuck in the halfway point. If we really smash the button in all directions, it will eventually take a picture, but the effort in doing so results in even blurrier pictures than normal. I was tempted to hold off on the review until I found out how Nikon intends to treat us in the warranty department, but I’m assuming I’ll at least have to pay shipping charges, and I’m not certain I want to spend even more money risking the possibility of bad customer service on a product I’m already experiencing serious buyer’s remorse over.
The battery pack is bittersweet. It lasts a pretty long time compared to the regular AAs from our last camera, but you can pick up AAs anywhere and they’re comparatively cheap. For this, you either need to shell out a not insignificant chunk of change on a spare battery or take no pictures while the one you’ve got charges up. Overall, I think I’d rather have AAs than a battery pack, but I imagine that’s personal preference.
It is compact. However, so are most of the rocks my daughter picks up, and those are equally functional to this camera, less frustrating to operate, and free.
Overall, buying this is an expensive way to get a cheap camera. I’m hoping I can find the box to the camera my daughter broke so we can go back to that brand.