Nikon Coolpix L25 Pro Reviews

Arguably the most important benefit to the Nikon Coolpix L25 is the price. The sub-£50 threshold has generally been a market for the very low spec cameras. Much lower than this. A year ago, this camera would've been £100. So what's happened? Either the build quality has dropped slightly, materials to build the cameras are cheaper or Nikon are making them cheap to make them more enticing in the war against camera phones. Whatever the reason is, at the moment it seems to be benefiting the consumer nicely. We recommend the Nikon Coolpix L25 as long as you fit into the consumer type we've described above.

If you are on a very strict budget, or are buying a child their first camera, the L25 is ideal. Images produced aren't ideal for large prints, but should look great when shared on Facebook thanks to the cameras good colour reproduction. Overall, you can't expect much for £40, but you do get a decent amount of zoom and a large screen in this compact camera, it also looks good in red.

The L25 is a neat little compact with an even neater little price point and it packs enough kit in to keep most snappers happy and providing enough tricks up its digital sleeve to give you scope to play. There are oddities though. For example, why Nikon do you include Exposure compensation (it is nice to have of course) but no manual control over ISO? That would be much more useful. Unfortunately, as much as I like this camera overall, the image quality is really quite compromised and yes the camera is inexpensive and so not aimed at the more discerning or (arguably) visually literate user, it's still disappointing. That said, the L25 is fun and easy to use and so overall, as a budget package, the Nikon Coolpix L25 is probably, just about, spot on.

Simple operation, a 5x zoom and a rock-bottom price, but image quality falls short of our modest expectations