Excellent 24mm Wide Angle Pictures

( - 11/23/04) I always looked forward to the day when i could take 24mm wide angle shots from a 'high quality' Digital point and shoot camera, without the bulk of a 'full blown Digital SLR' The new Nikon 8400 so far has lived up to nearly all my expectations. My experience over the last two weeks has reinforced my feeling toward the camera, Images are as good as it gets, and at a whopping 8MP! Typically i have opted for shooting at 5MP on the JPEG 'EXTRA' format, but the camera will also store images in RAW OR HIGH, (these are not compressed.) The various image and shooting modes are too numerous to go into detail here. (the English manual is 160 pages in total )Generally the camera performed very well showing no signs of the 'Dreaded Purple Fringing' I have to say that it prefers daytime lighting to lowlight conditions Which has been noticed in previous Nikon Digital Camera's. Colours were well balanced and pleasing to look at,Sure verticals would converge if you tilted the camera too much , but if your interest lies toward the 'Wide Look' (and mine does) rather than the Telephoto , then this camera could well be what You've been looking for . My only gripes (and there are a few) is, the Battery life seems much shorter than my Canon G5,the bundled software Nikon 'PictureProject' is very basic, and for some reason the Embedded ArcSoft Panorama maker would not run no matter what i did ,all that aside i love what this camera can do. I give it the 'thumbs up' ,(and i never thought i would part with my trusty Canon G5), that is until i had the chance to 'road test' the 8400, This is so good God is probably using one !