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the nikon coolpix p7700 is somewhat large but comfortably designed camera that delivers a reasonable amount of shooting flexibility for photographers who are looking for a lot of controls and better than point-and-shoot photo quality the body has a real grip which makes it nice for one-handed shooting and there's tons of direct access buttons and controls for quick operation those include three slots on the mode dial for custom settings and a couple of programmable function buttons while it offers a lot of straight shooting features there aren't a lot of other capabilities not just GPS or Wi-Fi but there's only a few creative effects and I'm not really crazy about the ones that offers for example there's a really interesting sounding zoom exposure mode which produces the effect of zooming the lens towards the subject but it really only works in dim light some of the dials tend to be a little easy to move to and some of the buttons are less responsive than I'd like for instance I would occasionally press the shutter and think I'd gotten the shot only to discover nope you can't change the volume of the shutter noise either so the only way to confirm that you actually got the shot is to keep that loud intrusive sound enabled nikon is also a bit behind the times with its video controls there's no record button and though you can control aperture and shutter speed you can't zoom while you're shooting and even though the camera still has its articulated LCD which canon dropped from the g15 Nikon jettison the optical viewfinder and it really should have a built-in lens cover by now I found the performance a little sluggish at least when shooting anything involving RAW processing the images seems to add a lot of overhead that delays your ability to change settings review photos or quickly take another shot focusing in low lights also just a little bit slow photo quality and good light and at low ISO sensitivities is quite good shots look sharp and colors are pretty accurate like many of these mid-range cameras however once you bump up to about iso 400 edges get mushy in D focused background gets dinner II shooting raw improves your ability to deal with some of the blown out highlights and desaturation and mid-range to high ISO shots but the data is just too noisy to really improve on the low light quality still it does deliver better photos than you get with a typical point and shoot this is a fine camera that lots of people will like as long as you don't get too into the pixel peeping or action shooting I'm Laurie grinning and this is the nikon coolpix p7700