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hi there I'm Josh Goldman senior editor for cnet and this is a look at the nikon coolpix s9100 it's Nikon's highest and compact mega zoom featuring an ultra wide-angle lens with an 18x zoom now that's the same lens that was in 2011's s 90 100 and in fact this is basically the same as the s 90 100 but with a higher resolution sensor it's now 16 megapixels instead of 12 and built-in GPS for geo tagging the extra resolution doesn't help or hurt the image quality they're good to very good best for small prints and web use but under the right conditions you can do some enlarging and cropping it has fairly fast performance to the big problem is is that it's MSRP is somewhat high for what its offering especially with the much better Canon sx260 HS and panasonic zs starting at the same price in other words it'll take a pretty serious price drop to make it worth recommending over those models I'm Josh Goldman and that's a nikon coolpix s9100