Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The first ever Nikon product that I'm disappointed with. I was excited to have pre-ordered this camera and tried it out for couple of days as we covered the Disney Epcot Center. Here is a summarized list of good and bad that I found: PROS: 1. Nice design, small enough to be grabbed with one hand, sleek and easily accessible buttons. 2. Swivel display allows you to take selfies with ease. 3. Powerful array of selections from image control to general camera workings. 4. Takes decent pictures in bright daylight. 5. BEST FEATURE: Creates its own (secured) WiFi hotspot and allows any WiFi enabled device to pair and control the camera (through an app) and download pics. 6. Nice zoom with 30x ability. CONS: 1. Very poor picture quality in low light - most pictures are hazy. Unacceptable quality. 2. Even using built-in modes (like fireworks), this camera produced pictures far inferior to the ones using my Samsung Note 4. Really! 3. No mention of the NFC in the manual and I could not make use of it. I couldn't even find menu item to configure it...remains a mystery how it works! Big bummer. 4. WORST FEATURE: The flash needs to be popped out manually. Be ready to lose some pics as you forget to unsnap it manually. Why not have it pop up when needed? Or have it built into the body so it doesn't need a popping up (like Coolpix's older models). BTW, it is risky to keep the flash popped up - flimsy mechanism may result in it getting snapped or snared in something making you drop the camera! 5. Takes poor pictures of close ups (like flowers) - the focus is not sharp enough. I may have been spoiled by my Nikon D7000, but this camera did much worse than my old Nikon point-and-shoot (6 years old!) 6. WiFi connectivity is flaky - sets up fast & easy but the app (on Android 4) keeps losing the connectivity with the camera. All in all the quality was poor enough for me to go ahead and return it. I had given this as a gift to my wife and she's finding her Samsung trump this camera easily in convenience & clarity AND she doesn't have to remember the flash popout! Quite disappointed. I'd implore Nikon to invest more research & quality in these cameras - as they do with their high end products.