Cheapest Nikon Coolpix L18 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Ruby Red)

First of all I consider myself as an amateur photographer even though people have paid me for photo shoots. Although I shoot mostly with DSLR's I have had owned many point and shoot cameras. My office decided to buy a few of these cameras because the boss is old school and wanted a camera that used AA batts. This camera is horrible! Don't expect to take action shots with this camera. The delay between when you press the shutter and when it actually takes the picture is about 4-5 sec. Some times you may get lucky and get a picture within 3 sec but that's rarely. The problem is that it takes about 2 sec to just focus and another 2 to take the picture. We use the cameras to take pictures of job sites so I don't take any action shots but because of the delay I've skipped taking some pictures because some times in never even would take the picture. I would just hear the camera trying to focus.

Some times I've tried the camera to take macro pictures of equipment name plates and even with the macro setting on the pictures would be blurry. We have 3 of these cameras and none of them have ever had a focused macro picture. I've found that my cell phone camera takes better macro pictures.

We've had these 3 cameras for 2 years now and the only reason why they still work is because everyone in the office tries to get the other Canon cameras that we have before they have to take these cameras.
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