Up until around July 1998, the CoolPix 100 was still available from various closeout and second inventory sites on the net. First, the Nikon name assures you of a well-designed and manufactured product.
Battery life is long, as it has no image display screen.
Although the camera has no provision for attachment to a desktop computer, accessing the images on your laptop computer is a snap. You can copy them to floppy or hard disk for permanent storage. And with automatic panorama stitching programs like Live Picture's PhotoVista , you can make composite images with widths larger than 640 pixels. More on this later . The 1 megabyte storage capacity is certainly not excessive, but it's larger than some, and sufficient , given the ease and speed of transferring images to your laptop.