Nikon Coolpix S9500

Slim body, excellent handling; Ample 22x zoom range with a handy 25mm wide angle; Snappy autofocus and a great macro mode

The extras don’t function nearly as well as we’d hoped

The S9500 is fundamentally sound, but its extra features fall flat.

Boss bought it for me ; Very good zoom ; Flashes when needed ; Battery seemed to last for ages ; Intuitive focus mechanism

Seems pricey, but again, the bossman bought it for me ; I'm no camera buff, but it did seem like there were some manual controls that I would enjoy using. Maybe I can't find them. If that's the case, then the con is unintuitive menu navigation

Excellent zoom, good battery life

Very slow processing the image capture. The low light sensor only works well for still images. Because the camera has the low light sensor it tries to not use the flash even when needed

640k-dot OLED screen ; 22x optical zoom ; GPS capability

No touchscreen ; No manual controls ; No raw capture