Nikon Coolpix S550 10MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Plum): Customer Reviews & Product Details

This product was like new - great value, at this point I couldn't be happier - that the same time I am not that particular about cameras.

I got this after reading reviews that it was a decent camera and the low price also convinced me to give it a try. Out of the 5+ digital cameras I've had this has to rank the lowest in quality and ease of use.

The problems:
1 - Extremely slow: If you have a dog or baby and want to take quick pictures of those precious moments, skip this camera. The camera takes forever to load from one photo to the next.
2 - Settings are a pain: Every time I needed to take a picture I had to try a few different settings to see what the best option was. If you leave it on auto you won't get the best pictures so you have to actually choose a mode i.e. indoors. And you have to play around with a few different modes until you can finally find the best one. Again back to point #1 that if you want to take quick photos of those precious moments, this is not for you.
3 - Poor quality: I never noticed how poor the quality of the photos actually were until I compared them to some old photos I had taken with my previous camera - Casio Exilim.

After a few months of use I decided to take the loss and sell this camera and am now on a search for a new one.
Bottom line, don't bother with this unless you want a mediocre camera.

Nice easy to use camera with excellent picture quality. Had a 16x24 poster made off of camera turned out great. One down fall is i had to purchase a new battery within a year. If you do have to replace battery make sure you get the real nikon battery. I found out from experience the cheap money saving battery is really that cheap. but otherwise best camera we have every owned. We bought our kids nikon cameras also.

Even though this is a very good product and It is what i expected, my experience buying it was awful. I payed for a brand new camera and when I received it, it was beaten. I read the operation manual and I wanted to configurate the camera and then was when I noticed that the camera has been used. It seems that it was the camera that has been used in the store for demonstration because the memory was full of photos of the store!! There was 30 photos of the store in the memory of the camera. The name of the store is Beach Camera and they sent me a used and beaten camera. I wrote an email to the store but I never got an answer. And I can't go to the store personally because I am living in another country. This really was a very bad experience for me, I was fooled by these people.

Every time you turn the camera on you have to set the date and time. It worked fine for a few months and then it went bad. The problem about it is that there was so many reviews complaining about this same problem and I ignored it. It is very frustrating, because when you need to take a picture right away you can't because the camera won't take a picture unless you set the date and time and obviously you can't catch a shot when it is happening because of this and you can't leave the camera on until it happens because it automatically shuts down after being on so long(which I guess is a good thing). This simply is quite annoying and I have used a Sony that has no similar problem. It is less megapixels but I guess less megapixels is better than no picture at all.