Nikon Coolpix 8700 Never Again

If you have a camera which is unfit, why not ask for your money back?
(Under UK law, the vendor would have to prove the camera was not of faulty
manufacture).  How do you know that Nikon will not repair the camera
without letting them try?

Your other complaints about the camera sound to be something you could
have easily researched before purchase, or have tried out in the shop.

David

It is irrationally aggravating to have a technological marvel that does not
work but the only rational choices are to retrurn it or get it repaired. If
its limits are understood, and if the frigging thing works like it should,
the 8700 is actually a very capable machine.I have had good luck with Nikon
repair services but others may have not had the same experience.
The only technological marvels that do not work that users have to accept as
is come from Microsoft and Apple.

How is it "a flawed image"? I just bought an 8700 a couple of weeks ago, and
the EVF looks fine to me.

Depends on how you hold the camera. I've seen this complaint about that type
of Nikon, but so far it hasn't been a problem for me.

Again, not a problem for me. Maybe you should use a faster CF card.

Yep. So does every other camera that uses a security cord for the lens cap.
Your obvious option is to not use that cord. Then you'll lose the lens cap
and you can complain about that, too.

You expected Pop Nikon to come over personally and fix it for you in your
home? All a manufacturer can do is offer repair or replacement. Any man-made
machine, instrument or tool may fail, even if of first-class design and
workmanship. Gazillion-dollar space shuttles sometimes blow up, for heaven's
sake.

K-a-n-n-u-n. But there are complaining Canon owners too. I doubt you will
ever find a camera brand about which no one complains, except maybe that
great cult favorite, the Lomo. But then that's not digital.

N.

Nikon 8700 is a great camera, a piece of art I would say.
I've had it for about 6 months and loved it.
Yes, has good and bad sides - isn't it the case with any camera?
It has all the best qualities of the top-of-the-line point-and-shoot,
but being point-and-shoot it is a bit slow.
May be you do not know what exactly is that you need from your camera?