Nikon COOLPIX L840 Digital Camera with 38x Optical Zoom and Built-in Wi-Fi (Black) (Renewed)

I bought this item as a used one sold from amazon warehouse. I was first a little bit nervous about the clarity of the lens as it was a unused one. However, when the item finally arrived my doorstep, to my utter exclamation, i found it almost new as a product. The lens was totally clear, the body was clean without any scratch. I think the previous user didnt use that too much.Now, let us talk about the picture quality. Let me be frank, it is not a DSLR camera! yes, and so, do not expect a super duper nice picture from it. This camera is very good for people who takes picture occasionally and are not photography fanatics. Most people want a camera which is better than a cell phone camera and easy to use. This is this camera. it is point and shoot. you point to the object and shoot it. it can make the adjustment if you put it into auto mode. I found the auto mode is the best way for a normal person for daily use.if you open the pictures in your PC, you won't find any bad result from it. the flash of the camera is good for again a normal person, not for an enthusiastic person in photography. If you print the pictures you won't be disappointed. The night pictures depend on the settings and the flash.The menus in the camera are basic Nikon menus and to me it is enough. To some, it is not enough. Again, it a point and shoot camera and for general people.Battery: it has not rechargeable builtin battery. You ahve to use AA batteries. you can buy rechargeable AA batteries and a charger from amazon.

Worked great for 2mo, now rarely turns on. Just get a little green blink when pressing power button then nothing. Tried resets, new batteries/memory cards, everything. Expensive brick.

I bought the Nikon-refurbed camera. The refurb version comes without auser manual. You need the user manual. For instance, you can't evenload the batteries without difficulty. There's no marking whatsoever onthe camera for which way the batteries go (hint: There are threebatteries in a line, then one outlier. The outlier and the middle ofthe three have "+" up. The other two have "+" down).You can download the user manual from Nikon's site.You can also download PC software from the Nikon site. However, theuser agreement that you're required to accept says it's okay for them tosnoop and collect information from your PC. I declined, so I never gotthe Nikon software installed. Windows 8.1 lets you transfer your photosusing the (supplied) USB cable without any add-on software.Auto focusing is slooow and not always successful.Red-eye elimination is done via post-processing in the camera.Mode selection is done via a menu. That means it takes some time.Big plus: Camera takes regular AA batteries, not something proprietary.Obviously, the large zoom range is a major feature.You can set exposure compensation to adjust the resulting picture.It doesn't work with flash. I wanted to brighten up a flash picture,so I re-took it with compensation. The result was identical.They say you need a tripod for max zoom. They're right: theirstabilization isn't up to the task. I tried bracing against asurface, but it wasn't good enough. A completely stable setupgave me a sharp max-zoom picture, proving it was shake, not lensquality or focus that was the problem.The SOFT mode selection choice is misleading. It gives you a submenuwhere only one of the choices is SOFT. There are useful non-softchoices in that submenu. One of them is the very useful choice:Backlighting. This is also misleading. If you select YES underBacklighting, it's designed to handle high contrast range pictures. Ittakes one "normal" picture and multiple temporary pictures. It mergesthem and adjusts to give an adjusted contrast picture that it savesafter the "normal" one. In my test shots, it did a pretty good job.Quality of my test pictures was fine. If you consider this to be a bigpoint-and-shoot camera rather than a near-SLR, you'll probably becontent with this camera.

Ease of use and cost make this a 4.5 Star camera. Not a pro-sumer camera. Not a sports camera. But a fast focus simple control layout. My son is going from cell phone and small PNS to DSLR in a year.1. The Nikon L840 is a great grab and shoot, budget camera. 2.Delivers very nice photos at lower ISO. Glamour mode and touch ups are very flattering. 3. Night shots on a tripod outside do okay. 4. The zoom on this camera is a Beast reach. You can get more. But you'll pay more with other cameras. 5. Not sure what he's framing, there a cool snap back button.to see the object... aim.. release the button...and click. 6. The select-able scene settings are useful and practical. Panorama is fun!! 7. This camera shots on the soft side. 8. And that's fine, this is where you get to learn the camera nuances. 9. We don't do a lot of post editing with PNS', we post to Instagram. The "WiFi" works fine. 10. The Nikon Coolpix L840 is a bare-bones travel zoom point-and-shoot. It has a 38x zoom lens, with a 16-megapixel sensor, and a simplistic control scheme. Not only does this camera produce decent photos and video considering its price, there's nothing cluttering the experience. Uses 4 AA batteries.

To be honest, I was skeptical at first to make such a purchase, not knowing if this was a scam, or for real. I am so very much impressed with my camera, it looks like brand new. I once had one just like the one above, but unfortunately it got wet in Iceland and shorted out.