Customer Rating: 
Summary: If NO STARS were available - that's what NIKON gets
Comment: DITTO -- Dead Nikon 5400 after less than one year and very good care on my part - returned to Nikon - held my camera hostage wanting $162.50 to repair !!!! Let me say that again - wanted $162.50 to repair. Wow!!! - are they smoking crack at Nikon? - THE LAST NIKON product I ever buy - forget the camera. The company (NIKON) has lost touch with reality and doesn't understand how to keep customers - - GO BUY A CANON and pass it on . .. . next batter up.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dead Nikon 5400
Comment: I looked long and hard to decide between Canon G5 And Nikon 5400. Unfortunately I picked the Nikon. I and many many other people have a bad CCD in this camera . Nikon wants $165 dollars to fix it. Do a search on this camera on Ebay (as is),there are dozens of them. There are none for the Canon G Series.
Nikon
Batter UP
and Thanks a Lot.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Crash & Burn - Caveat Emptor
Comment: Apparently the CCD and batteries used by Nikon on many of their Digital Cameras are manufactured by Sony. The Nikon 5700 is under a Nikon "voluntary recall". Kind of like "don't ask, don't tell". The 5400 has the same issues but repairs / replacements are much less "voluntary" in nature. Lots of bad press about it on the web and two-thirds to four-fifths of the cameras selling on eBay are sold in "As is Condition & Final" or "For Parts" with no returns allowed. This camera has some great features but can be frustrating to get it to act right in a timely manner. Mine has crashed and burned very recently too. Just turned it on and it was fried, less than 3000 pictures taken. It was not cheap to buy and I also bought many accessories that only work on the 5400 and if I cannot get it fixed I am out even more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dead CCD
Comment: I bought this camera 1 year and 10 months ago. Used only occasionally, never took it out in the rain or snow. The CCD just died the day after Christmas ... All the pictures I take come out completely black. Everything else seems to work (the lense, flash, LCD...)
After a bit of googling it appears that many people are experiencing the same problem...
Customer Rating:
Summary: I hate this camera!
Comment: I got this camera for christmas two years ago and recently purchaced a new digital camera because I hate this one so much. I was looking on amazon to see how much it cost (didn't know because it was a gift), and I was shocked to find out it was so expensive! I rarely used this camera because it's so SLOW and inconvenient to use. Also, one of the times I actually did use it, it fell off my coffee table and onto the carpeted floor and jammed the zoom and totally quit working. I couldn't believe that it was so fragile! I sent it off for Nikon to fix and it cost over 200 dollars to fix! Yet another shocker! It takes nice pictures most of the time, but as others have mentioned, often they turn out hazey in certain lighting. I'm just disgusted that so much money has been invested in a camera that I've never enjoyed using. The one I just purched cost 1/4 of the amount that has been spent on this nikon. And I know I will like my new one because I've used my boss's often and it's great. Don't make the same mistake.
Summary: If NO STARS were available - that's what NIKON gets
Comment: DITTO -- Dead Nikon 5400 after less than one year and very good care on my part - returned to Nikon - held my camera hostage wanting $162.50 to repair !!!! Let me say that again - wanted $162.50 to repair. Wow!!! - are they smoking crack at Nikon? - THE LAST NIKON product I ever buy - forget the camera. The company (NIKON) has lost touch with reality and doesn't understand how to keep customers - - GO BUY A CANON and pass it on . .. . next batter up.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dead Nikon 5400
Comment: I looked long and hard to decide between Canon G5 And Nikon 5400. Unfortunately I picked the Nikon. I and many many other people have a bad CCD in this camera . Nikon wants $165 dollars to fix it. Do a search on this camera on Ebay (as is),there are dozens of them. There are none for the Canon G Series.
Nikon
Batter UP
and Thanks a Lot.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Crash & Burn - Caveat Emptor
Comment: Apparently the CCD and batteries used by Nikon on many of their Digital Cameras are manufactured by Sony. The Nikon 5700 is under a Nikon "voluntary recall". Kind of like "don't ask, don't tell". The 5400 has the same issues but repairs / replacements are much less "voluntary" in nature. Lots of bad press about it on the web and two-thirds to four-fifths of the cameras selling on eBay are sold in "As is Condition & Final" or "For Parts" with no returns allowed. This camera has some great features but can be frustrating to get it to act right in a timely manner. Mine has crashed and burned very recently too. Just turned it on and it was fried, less than 3000 pictures taken. It was not cheap to buy and I also bought many accessories that only work on the 5400 and if I cannot get it fixed I am out even more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dead CCD
Comment: I bought this camera 1 year and 10 months ago. Used only occasionally, never took it out in the rain or snow. The CCD just died the day after Christmas ... All the pictures I take come out completely black. Everything else seems to work (the lense, flash, LCD...)
After a bit of googling it appears that many people are experiencing the same problem...
Customer Rating:
Summary: I hate this camera!
Comment: I got this camera for christmas two years ago and recently purchaced a new digital camera because I hate this one so much. I was looking on amazon to see how much it cost (didn't know because it was a gift), and I was shocked to find out it was so expensive! I rarely used this camera because it's so SLOW and inconvenient to use. Also, one of the times I actually did use it, it fell off my coffee table and onto the carpeted floor and jammed the zoom and totally quit working. I couldn't believe that it was so fragile! I sent it off for Nikon to fix and it cost over 200 dollars to fix! Yet another shocker! It takes nice pictures most of the time, but as others have mentioned, often they turn out hazey in certain lighting. I'm just disgusted that so much money has been invested in a camera that I've never enjoyed using. The one I just purched cost 1/4 of the amount that has been spent on this nikon. And I know I will like my new one because I've used my boss's often and it's great. Don't make the same mistake.