Nikon COOLPIX S220 10.0 MP Digital Camera - Smooth magenta

Very well made,very small and light camera. 10 mpixels is approaching professional level capability. I bought this one used and have not found anything wrong with it yet. It takes great pictures and has a very wide range of settings.
Maybe too wide for some users. The menu is complex and is geared for computer savy persons and it has very small doors on the botton edge which must be carefully opened as not to break them to remove the battery and/or flash card memeory. It took me a while to get the battery out for inspection.
It takes video with sound and can be used as a voice recorder.

Problems or draw backs:
Small,thin, and very slippery finish is easily dropped. Keep the lanyard on it or put it on as soon as you get the camera. If it ever gets dropped on a hard surface, that's the end of the camera.

Complex menu for some users and the manual is very good, but thick. I work in electronics and I have no problem working with the firmware/software.

Good points:
One of the drawbacks is one of its best features. Small, light, very versatile point and shoot camera with a supperior imager chip at 10 Mpixels, the memory can be increased. It takes video with sound and comes with the cables to connect the camera to standard RCA type audio and video connections found on most DVD, TV and, sound systems. The battery charges quick and lasts a long time. It is threaded on the bottom to accept a standard tripod mount and has a timer to allow for delayed imaging.

I give it a nine out of ten. I have never been disapointed with a Nikon product.

This camera is almost like having a little computer in your pocket (but not in the back pocket). The many features and the ease at which it performs is outstanding. Although the LCD is vulnerable I was able to change the screen out. Now I have taken a thin sheet of clear plastic about 1/32" thick and cut to fit over the LCD and with a thin application of Super Glue applied to the outer frame to secure to the body made it less vulnerable to breaking.

I decided I needed to upgrade when Kodak didn't support my old camera both camera and software. I started using Picasa software and it was much better then the older Kodak software for gathering pictures from all over your hard drive and you can pick the folders you wanted to look at.

The kodak camera uses 1.5 volt batteries and the 1.2 volt rechargeable would not allow this camera to take many pictures before the batteries expired. Now the new 1.5 lithium batters work well but are not rechargeable.

I like the Coolpix as it has a lot of picture taking parameters and the batteries are a thin 3.7 volts li-ion and recharged in an external charger, to keep the camera small in size and it was cheap to pick up a couple spares for $7 on ebay and these work great.

Great deal for the money. Very easy to use. It fits well in a pants pocket. The menu and program have the same good organization of the Nikon digital SLR. Picture quality is excellent. High ISO settings are a nice feature. The rechargeable battery provides an adequate number of pictures/charge.

Our second Nikon S220 purchase, this one lightly used. Our first camera's flash stopped working and we felt comfortable with all the accessories we have for the Nikon. Decent picture quality and a lot of extra features make this a good camera for different situations. The video feature comes in handy too. A little worry comes from all the S220 listed for parts only on ebay.
If you can get a new camera for around a hundred and about fifty for a used one, they are a good deal. I dislike ebay for letting vendors list used camera's as NEW when they are not. I would recommend the Nikon S220 to a friend.