Nikon COOLPIX S6500 Wi-Fi Digital Camera with 12x Zoom (Red)

I bought this camera to have one I could slide in a shirt pocket. I have a D90 Nikon and just didn't want to lug it with me on a trip I was taking. I like Nikon quality and this camera had all the features id expect from a good camera. The 12x zoom is one of the features that i was wanting. Since returning from my trip and using the camera i can say i picked the right one. The quality of pics are outstanding, the ease of use, the compactness makes this a very nice camera to have handy. I take it with me now everywhere i go. I grab for it now instead of my phone, although my phone takes nice pics it doesn't have the zoom ability that the S6500 has and that is mostly the plus for this little camera. I gave it a five star because it roamed across Europe with me for a week and never missed a beat. I got a good one. Thanks Amazon! Your prices are the best too.

ORIGINAL: This is only my second outing with this camera and I am severely disappointed. It takes pictures fine, but when I click to view my pictures, the camera freezes and the screen goes black. The lenses stays out, and the camera won't respond to anything until I remove the battery and restart it. Don't have my laptop on vacation with me so I'm not even sure if the pictures are being saved yet. Guess I'll be using my phone camera after all. UPDATED: Although I had used my camera before with no issue, and although my memory card works just fine on my fugi waterproof camera, my problem was resolved by replacing the memory card. I have not had another problem since switching the cards. I upgraded the rating from one star to four stars. I am still upset that I had this issue to begin with. Pictures turn out fine. I don't like the fact that the camera prompts me turn off silent mode when I turn on the flash. I do like the color of the camera. Pictures turn out fine, nothing spectacular but does the job.

Great picture quality!!! beautiful camera and pics! Battery lasts a pretty good amount of time too!

Good Value in a very Small Handy Point and Shoot Compared to other cameras, the Sony WX-350 delivers in a few remarkable areas: very small size and light weight, and extremely good battery life. That will be enough to please many, although in all other respects the WX-350 is just average. In terms of shooting performance, the Fuji F850 and the Panasonic ZS-15 are noticeably faster, while the similarly sized Nikon S6500 is the slow-poke of the bunch. As is common with small digital cameras, the lenses are not particularly bright. The Sony starts out at f/3.5, closing down to f6.5 at full zoom. The ZS-15 goes from f/3.3 - f5.9, the Nikon from f/3.1-6.5, and the Fuji from f/3.5-5.3. As primarily a still camera, the Fuji is my pick of the litter, particularly when shooting in its "M" mode, or 8 meg mode, which allows the EXR processor to do its thing. For video, though, its battery life isn't good enough to be of much cold weather field use, as is the case with the Nikon S6500. The Fuji also has the most visible, enjoyable LCD, the Panasonic having the weakest, which the only thing that I could consider a flaw of sorts with the ZS-15. Still, the Panasonic focuses faster than the WX-350, is better in low light (none of these cameras are great in that regard), and the Panasonic has the full PASM set of controls to work with. Though the Panasonic's battery life is not superb for video (260 CIPA still shot rating) by dimming the LCD as much as possible and going with higher capacity (1200 mAH vs. 895 mAH OEM) aftermarket batteries, I've been able to squeeze out over an hour and fifteen minutes of video capture between battery changes. While the WX-350 delivers on lightness, low-bulk, and very impressive battery life, the rest of the camera is just wonderfully adequate, and not good enough to best the Fuji F850EXR as a 20x travel zoom, nor good enough to beat the older Panasonic 16x ZS-15 in terms of speedy shooting performance, video, or general still image quality. What of the Nikon COOLPIX S6500? Well, for the money ($100 or so as of this writing), it is an excellent value. It is very small, easy to use, and sells for about half of the similar form-factor longer-zoom WX-350 Sony, with a better LCD. While its shooting performance is not blazing fast, its battery life is adequate for stills but not for video. With good optical stabilization and a very useable 12x zoom range, it is the type of camera that you can take anywhere without much bulk or weight. It isn't class-leading, by any means, but it also doesn't have a class-leading price, either. For the dollar in a handy little point and shoot, it is quite a satisfying and fun little camera. Copyright 2014 by Randy Wakeman. All Rights Reserved.

I bought the Nikon COOLPIX S6500 for a recently completed trip to Europe. It performed exactly as I expected. I have a Canon EOS Rebel but didn't want to lug around that big of a camera since this was a bus tour of multiple countries and I want to travel as light as possible. I kept the camera in my pocket and discovered if you put a couple heavy-duty rubber bands on it it's easy to grab and won't slide out of your pocket. (That also helps foil Europe's ever-present pick pockets...) Other reviews have noted that they were annoyed because after every shot the Quick Effects screen precludes a quick second picture. If you SLIGHTLY depress the trigger button when the Quick Effects screen appears it will disappear just as quickly, enabling a relatively fast second shot. My only issue with the camera was the relatively short battery life, but that's solved by having a second/backup battery. Now, if I can just remember to carry the backup battery with me -- rather than leaving it on the bus as I did on three occasions -- I would have had no issues at all. But that problem certainly wasn't the camera/batteries fault. It's an excellent lightweight travel camera that takes amazingly good pictures.