Nikon S3700

I mentioned in my last post that as my little Sony digital DSC-W800, that I’ve only had for a year or so but which has received the usual battering in that time, is not now delivering very high quality shots, I might look around for a new camera.

Well, I was idly perusing the French Ebay site yesterday evening, as you do, when I came across a brand new Nikon Coolpix S3700 at a very good price, no bids and only 40 minutes to go. So I decided how much I was prepared to go to and made a bid before the ad expired.

Turned out I was the only bidder and therefore got it at its starting price, which was much lower than it’s currently being sold at on the French internet discount photo-store web sites. Here’s a stock shot of the camera.

It’s had very good reviews on all of the camera comparison web sites that I’ve seen and has been the best-buy low cost digital on almost all of them, so although it only has nominally the same number of pixels as my current Sony (20.1 MP), I’m looking very much to getting my hands on it. It didn’t cost me a great deal so I won’t be much out of pocket in any event, but I’m quietly optimistic 😉