The Nikon Lite Touch Zoom is a pocketable, good looking zoom lens point & shoot with several nice features and a few drawbacks. I've had the Lite Touch for several years and have taken it out often. The image quality is good, the lens is sharp and the zoom provides flexibility.
Advantages:
- Sharp zoom lens - 35-70mm f/3.5-6.5 zoom
- Panorama and normal mode
- Adequate flash with multiple modes
- Zoom lens only extends 1-1/4"
- Readily available CR123A battery
- Quick focus
- DX coding (ISO 100 - 1000)
Disadvantages:
- Very small viewfinder
- All buttons are small, rubberized and surprisingly hard to push. The shutter release button (at least on my camera) has to be pushed quite hard to activate.
- No lens cap or cover
- Unable to manually set ISO
- Zoom lens is "stopless" (doesn't stop at 35, 50, etc.). It can be stopped anywhere between 35 thru 70mm. However, except at 35mm or 70mm you don't know what the zoom is set at.
One weird feature of the camera is that the film is loaded "backwards". Looking at the back the film door opens R to L. The film is also loaded "upside down" compared to most cameras.
Overall, a nice camera for everyday snapshots, street photography or vacation / traveling. Here are a few shots using a roll of Ultrafine Warehouse Finesse 400 developed with Kodak D-76.
