NikonCOOLPIX S3700 Digital Camera with 8x Optical Zoom and Built-In Wi-Fi (Silver)

Item as described. Fast shipping. Excellent condition .

I have owned four or five digital cameras, going back to about 1999. Over the years, I have seen these cameras evolve, becoming more powerful, with more capacity and features, and at increasingly lower prices. I have a perfectly good Canon Powershot SX 150 and it takes fantastic pictures, although it is a bigger camera than this one. But like all people who are looking to find even more features at a better price-point, and also looking for a very thin, pocket size camera, after doing lots of online research, I settled on this Nikon.First of all, it is small. It is thin and it has many features that I will not go into, as they are readily available in the product description. Suffice it to say that I am impressed by this camera. The photos are crisp, the menus are intuitive, and making adjustments are straightforward. I will not be using the Wi-fi or video features, but would expect them to work very well indeed, based on the photos. The zoom. while not exactly earth-shaking is more than adequate for the amateur or serious amateur. If you ant more than 8X and are a serious camera enthusiast, get one of the $1K+ big boys.The EN-EL 19 battery is wafer thin, and takes a while to charge, but holds the charge quite well. I will probably get a backup battery and charger for trips. The camera took a 16GB SDHC class 10 card without a glitch. I am sure it will provide all the capacity I will need.One last thing, The instructions that come with the camera are pretty basic. But, as is becoming standard practice, you can go to the Nikon website and download the BIG instruction manual.1-22-2016: I have now had this camera for about 9 months. I recently took on a trip to Hawaii and took around 500 photos at the highest resolution. Also took about 16 minutes of videos. The SDHC micro card easily handled all this information. My experience is that you can get about 300-350 photos on a single charge. Beforehand, I bought a spare battery and charger to take along. It paid off, as there was one time I had run out of juice, and changing over to the new battery took about 30 seconds.All in all, this is a fine camera. It does, as you may suspect, have limitations compared to other more expensive cameras -- wish the optical zoom was higher, but I do like the thinness of the camera. It fit easily into a small side cargo pocket on my shorts, and there was really no bulge at all. It's a keeper.

Item arrived in a padded envelope with a small size USPS flat rate shipping box inside with nothing written on it, and inside of that was the camera, loose in the box nothing wrapped around it, and a plastic-wrapped battery charger also loose in the box. There was bubble wrap stuffed in the bottom of the box but still plenty of room for the items to bang around. The battery was dead (no surprise), but I had one from the previous S3700 I was replacing, and when I tried to use it the lens wouldn't open - it made a sound like it wanted to open, but even after several tries, it would not. Unable to use the broken item, I returned it. Got notice from Amazon of refund, BUT I am being charged a restocking fee of nearly $20 for an item that didn't even work! Because I need a camera separate from my phone, I ordered another camera, but made sure to order from a different used Nikon camera vendor on Amazon. Ordering on Amazon because I thought returns would be easier if there was a problem, but nowhere was I told there would be that big of a restocking fee, and especially surprising to have to pay it on an item that was defective. Shame on both Amazon and on the seller, Chumdog!

Have had this for maybe 3 months, and am pleased with it so far. I purchased it to replace a 'Coolpix' model S2, which finally died after some 5 years of pretty heavy use. It took me some time to learn how to operate this camera for taking close up shots of stamps in an album, which at least 50% of my useage is for. With the S2, I mounted the camera on a tripod that positioned the camera lens maybe 14 inches above the object to be photographed. I used the zoom feature to where I was able to enlarge a single stamp to fill almost the entire photo. Trying to do this with the S3700, on the same tripod, using the close up setting, didn't work. (Could not focus). Actually had the same problem with an S2800, which I returned to Amazon, after speaking with Nikon customer service, who recommended I return the camera to their service department. (Also learned that the S 2800 was an old product). It was only after again having had the same problem with the first example of the S3700, which I again returned to Amazon because of the same scenario wth a Nikon customer service rep, that I got to talk to a Nikon Service rep that understood what was happening, when I again experienced the problem with the second example of the S3700. He informed me that the camera lens on the S3700 must be within 2 or 3 inches of the object, when operating in the 'macro mode' setting. The Nikon instruction manual makes no mention of this. Once I purchased a 'Goliton Mini Desktop tripod' all my problems were solved. I think the close up shots now are even better than those I used to get with the S2.

I bought this camera because the reviews were good, the price was good and it had wi-fi capabilities. I've had the camera for a month and am still struggling with how to use it. I find the wi-fi feature exasperating. My SIL walked me through it several times and as tech savvy as he is, he also had issues. Better instructions would help a great deal. I also feel the color, particularly on reds, is not what I'd hoped for.