I had frequent flier miles that were about to expire so I had to either fly or buy from one of their affiliates. I got this camera as my older Nikon had some problems due to wear and tear. I had expected high resolution pictures from the S70. What I got was extremely poor quality pictures only bigger.Reviews had mentioned this but the professional reviews rated the camera fairly favorably. I assume that the professionals only tested the camera in the lab. Picture quality at best is pretty bad. At worst, the picture is so blurry as to be impossible to tell what the subject was. A courtroom sketch would have come out better. I realize that some of this had to do with the settings and the fact that it was difficult to remember to change the settings for each shot.
Another problem had to do with the touch screen. It was almost impossible to take a picture without touching one of the icons on the screen. In some cases the picture taking process was reduced to listening to the camera constantly changing some button or other. Reviews had mentioned this but I just thought that people needed to be more careful. It's almost impossible to be careful with this camera. And you can just forget about asking someone to take a picture for you. Very bad design.
I fell with the camera protected in a case and it still broke. It appears that the CCD is mounted on silicon to reduce vibration and that must have torn. Everything on the camera still works but the colors are misaligned yielding purpleish pictures with weird lines throughout. This after only about 300 pictures on the camera. The really sad part is that I wish it had broken earlier so I wouldn't have missed some many one-chance-in-a-lifetime pictures.
Do yourself a favor and find another camera, even another Nikon.Get more detail about Nikon Coolpix S70 12.1MP Digital Camera with 3.5-inch OLED Touch Screen and 5x Wide Angle Optical Vibration Reduction (VR) Zoom (Red).
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