Some of us cant buy dslrs! This camera is a value for money camera. It is a semi-SLR camera but its picture’s clarity and quality is same like a DSLR. You get eight cells ( 4 rechargeable and 4 non-rechargeable) with a charger, and a 4GB SD card free with it. It has 20.1 MP so the picture can be zoomed a lot and then even the picture is clear. Because of its high ISO value, you can click the picture without flash at night. Its optical zoom is fabulous and if you do it till 26X then you can see of more than 100m far. It has a very strong flash due to which you can click the photo at night and when no light is there. It even captures HD video. It has a good speaker and a good microphone. When you have fully charged the nikon batteries and are using them on the COOLPIX battery mode then charging is not required for a very long tim