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They told me that I "apparently dropped it" Which was a BIG flat out lie. The camera is light weight. The picture quality was nice. I took excellent care of it, not a scratch, and never got to even take it outside my house yet. BUT less than a year I was taking a picture of my daughters graduation and all of a sudden the less stayed out and the picture said 'lens error'. I bought a three year warranty, and sent it to the company for repairs. This is the WORSE camera I ever bought. Save your money dont buy this camera
I bought and used two L18 coolpix cameras in December 2008, because they were on sale, rated highly by Amazon, had familiar features, could easily fit in my pocket, used world-wide common AA batteries, had a nice big digital display, and improved 3Xzoom and 8 magapixel capability. and seeing what the camera is capturing. None of the three coolpix cameras I have take good fotos at night (without the flash or with it frequently there are so many spots in the foto from moisture in the air that the photo is irreparable even with the best software)resulting in yellow people and blurrrrrred images. I already owned an L11 which is 3 years old and bought a new L20 this December 2009 to replace the broken one I bought last year. The Pentax 330GS that I used 2002-2007 before switching to Nikon took great night and much sharper pictures of moving objects but it only had a 3.0 magapixel capability. I carry the camera in my pocket and take digital photos daily, have over 100,000 photos in my computer and frequently edit and label them from my international travels and family events. I gave one to my wife who rarely uses it. Without the sales receipt, no way to return the broken camera to Nikon for warranty repair (supposed to be a 1 year guarantee - but no repair facilities in Europe and despite registering the camera on line at the time of purchase, you still have to have the sales slip to return it to Nikon for warranty repairs).
The L18 that I bought and used was blue and my wife's is red. I took about 5000 photos over 10 months with the L18 before the digital display suddenly stopped working - which prevents setting the functions on the camera (video, still pics, flash, etc). Also none of them take good photos of moving objects - more than 40% of my photos of people moving are too blurred - even when the person only slightly moves. When the subject is still, in daylight, and you can hold the camera steady, the coolpix cameras all take great pictures.Nikon Coolpix L18 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Ruby Red)
I love this camera. I have been through so many.guess i'm too picky. It also arrived very quickly.
It was a great camera and easy to use. It still takes photos, however it is diffucult, since the LCD screen went blank (and there's no eye hole). The photos and videos were good and the extra zoom was handy. The camera was bought last Christmas, it didn't last a year. Now I need to get another point and shoot- before Christmas. Also, the cost of keeping up with the AA batteries was blah.
My wife purchased a Nikon L-18 to keep in her purse for snapshots. Most cameras, but not the L-18, set up for NiMh cells will typically function until the cells drop to about 0.95 V. We exchanged the L-18 for another and it works exactly the same. We did, of course, use the "set-up" menu to set the camera to the "Nikon recharageable NiMh" setting. no matter if the menu selection is st to Alkaline, NiCad or NiMh. The camera stopped working and the screen indicated "discharged battery" when the NiMh cells each drop to 1.25 Volts. It worked OK (images are decent) using Alkaline batteries, but would only take 30 or so shots using NiMh cells. which represents a 5 to 10% charge remaining condition.
This is a typical voltage of a NimH cell that still has 90 percent of it's charge remaining. We tried using (3) brands of new NiMh cells with the same result. It appears that the low battery cut off is set to 1.25 V. At first I believed that we received a defective example, but the second one is behaves the same, so I suspect that this is a design fault or a firmware error.We are very disappointed with the useless Nikon L-18 and have already purchased a small Canon that actually gets 250 shots on a pair of AA NiMh cells.
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