Nikon Coolpix P80

This is a rebadged Olympus SP 560

So what Camera would you recommend for this sort of price range and features for someone who's looking to purchse a Camera with more creativity than a compact?

I would recommend the panasonic fz28

Or the Canon A720is/650is - compacts but with full creative control and if you use custom software you get full RAW write capability etc.

The Fuji S9600 got a 10/10 rating and is now available for around this price.

@ Pihrana .. for under £190-00 you will not find anything, anywhere to come within a million miles of a Fuji FinePix S9600. See review here:-

http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/review/2007/01/31/Fujifilm-FinePix-S9600/p1

I have one & its incredible & is well deserving of its 10/10 review here by Cliff! Check it out.

A correction
The P80 is a clone of the Olympus SP560 lens on the SP570 electronics with the most useful AA batteries replaced by an expensive proprietry one.
Also compare the panasonic fz28 with the Olympus products / P80

Fred is right, coping designs is rife in the camera industry. Only yesterday I found out my Nikon D300 is actually a rebranded Olympus OM-1!!

They both have a mirror, shutter and viewfinder, but most tellingly of all, they are both painted black!! I have sent an angry letter to Nikon UK, and am waiting on their response.. ;)

Seriously, there is a little grain of truth in what ole Fred is saying, the Olympus SP-550/560UZ share exactly the same lens with the Fuji S8000/8100fd.

Good review. Comprehensive with well-explained reasons for every one of your conclusions. Although your scores for the Nikon P80 are much higher than your scores for the Fuji S8100 and Sony H50, a detailed reading of all three reviews reveals that the Nikon P80 is inferior to the other two, especially in terms of picture quality. Since you gave the Sony a 7 and the Fuji a 6, the Nikon P80 deserves a 5 at best.

I found the feedbacks extremely helpful; in contrast to what a sales chap advised & recommended to me this afternoon for a shopping Saturday in search of a handy size with close matching performance to the higher end models within the DSLR range and the Nikon Coolpix P80 comes 2nd to the preferred choice i.e. the Lumix FZ18... yeah, a 2007 model.. and after seeing the launch intro to be this month, I'm now tempted to pit the Panasonic to that of the Fuji 9600... Nikon's P80 certainly lost my cool vote!

I thought that lens looked familiar, it is the same one used in the Olympus SP 560 And My Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd (And the S8100fd), that lens is clearly a tart!