Review on Nikon Coolpix S9300 16.0 MP Digital Camera - Black (No Longer Manufactured) by Siu Kim ᠌

If in one word - disappointment, I will sell it. Almost 4,000 shots were taken by the device, while shooting emotions are generally positive. Convenient, relatively compact (although one and a half times larger and heavier than the Canon SD-630 bought 6 years ago), it perfectly captures both urban landscapes from a very close distance and distant fragments of buildings. But I immediately had to abandon the GPS, even three batteries are only enough for half a day. The battery is charged directly in the camera, it will not work to put it on charge and go on shooting, I immediately had to buy a separate charger, for separate money. In addition, when the camera is charging the battery, it does not perform any other functions, you will not be able to view the footage during charging. The device is very slow, only turning on takes 8 seconds, and a few seconds between frames. But it sharpens very quickly. The main shortcomings were revealed upon returning home when viewing what was filmed. The first thing I encountered was that it does not remember information about the orientation of the device at the time of shooting. I thought that this is no longer the case, it turned out - it happens. As a result, the captured frames had to be rotated manually (I remind you that there are about 4000 of them). But most importantly, the quality of the received frames was horrifying. Creepy grain even at minimum sensitivity. The photos are fuzzy, more or less decently obtained if you run through a filter to remove noise and reduce the resolution by half on each side (ie, to about 4MP). And JPG with very strong compression even in the best quality mode. Maybe the compression algorithm is not very good or the compression is large, I don’t know what the problem is, but subjectively the result is unsatisfactory. In panorama mode, the vertical resolution is 560 pixels. Well, who needs such a panorama? In HDR mode, frames are obtained with a significant interval and are not even suitable for portrait photography. Haven't watched 3D yet.