I am in the market for a good quality digital camera and I am very impressed by the pictures that Nikon 950 takes. I also noticed that the Nikon 700 sells for over $300 less and its specifications are almost identical to the 950. What is the most important thing that I will be missing if I decide for the 700? Is it worth over $300?

Thanks for your help, Rudy Don

-- Rodolfo Don (rdon@garlic.com), March 10, 1999

Answers

The most important thing is probably the 3x optical zoom and the swivel design. That makes the Nikon 700 just a very expensive wide angle camera ...that provides excellennt images, though.

-- Alex Man (alex@fluevog.com), March 10, 1999.

700 autofocus has 127 steps instead of 4746 (does 950 really use em all?) fixed 2.6 aperture instead of 2.6 to 4 1.8" lcd instead of 2" weights 320g instead of 390g 114 X 267 X 38.5 instead of 143 X 76.5 X 36.5 no aperture or shutter priority unlike 950 no external flash connector unlike 950

For me the biggie is optical zoom, that kills it for me.

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), March 12, 1999.

http://www.nikonusa.com/products/new0218/cp700/coolpix700.html http://www.nikonusa.com/products/new0218/cp950/coolpix950.html

See the specs for your self

-- RS (justin_dec@hotmail.com), March 15, 1999.