Don't get me wrong... it's not that I wouldn't recommend ANY Nikon camera, it's just that I wouldn't recommend this one. Granted, my film equipment was Canon EOS, and I have a bit of a Canon-user-bias against Nikon, so take all of this with a grain of salt. My understanding is that the new Nikons D SLRs are excellent cameras.
That said, these are the major flaws (as I see them) with the D7600 that I use.
1. The auto-focus is awful. Doesn't work well in low contrast lighting situations, in low light situations, and works poorly with macro work. I know, these are problems with all AF systems, but this is compared to my EOS A2, an AF system that is 12 years or more older than this Nikon. If I don't have the choice of manual focus, the AF needs to be good.
2. The CCD doesn't handle purples very well. Sure, any camera has some color that it doesn't represent very well, but since I need to capture the pigments in Paphs, purple is important.
3. There's no Aperture or Shutter Priority mode, both of which would be really useful. I guess they're not that common on Point and Shoots, but some of the Canons have them... and for a 7 Megapixel camera, I expect some features like that.
4. The buttons periodically stop working. Well, just one, really... the flash button on the back. Might just be mine, but seems like not the greatest quality piece of work.
Anyway, I do like some other things about this camera... it was cheap, and its 7 Mpixels, and the lens quality is pretty good, and the exposure compensation is pretty easy to use. It's only in 1/3rd stops, (and I prefer half stops) but that's not a big deal.
- Matt