My 12 year old daughter has decided she wants the L320 version of this as she can get it for her £100 birthday money.

So is it a pile of tat or ok for the money and what alternatives are there for that price?

Both my kids have them and love them!

Seem good value for money

My dad just bought one and he is 89, good for all ages 😆

It’s a Nikon, what’s not to like? My first digital camera was a Coolpix 5700, which I bought in 2003, IIRC. 5Mp, 8x optical zoom, and it cost me £800, and the 1Gb CF card was £200.
Things have moved on a bit, but it took damn good photos.
This is one of the very first photos I took with my Nikon, in November 2003, about six or seven rows back in the Bristol Hippodrome.
I still think it’s one of my best, and it shows how good Nikon bridge cameras are:

Emmylou Harris by CountZero1, on Flickr

thanks guys.

sounds like it’ll be worth buying.