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In design and appearance the Nikon's Coolpix 885 may be similar to the Coolpix 775, but there are differences externally, and some very important ones internally.
Full Auto Movie
Scene Mode Setup
Custom Mode Playback
The optical viewfinder is flanked by 2 LEDs. The top one is red and indicates flash ready or charging; the lower one is green and indicates focus, inability to focus (flashing), or recording activity.

All the other controls are located on the back. The zoom control is uppermost and also serves to magnify a photo displayed on the screen during Playback. Below is the Transfer button, used to tag images for automatic transfer to the computer. When the included software, Nikon View, is running on the computer, pressing the transfer button will automatically copy the tagged photos to the computer's hard disk.
The Coolpix 885 is equipped with a 1.5 inch LCD screen. The biggest control is the Multi-selector on the right of the screen. Not only does the selector allow navigation of the camera menus, it is also a multi-function control in the Recording and Playback modes. Then, it allows shifting the focus area; clearing the screen of its overlaid information or turning the monitor off. It can even be used to record a smaller-sized version of an image being displayed on the LCD screen.

Below is the Quick button which allows a fast access to Playback while the Mode Dial remains in an image recording mode.
When the Quick button is pressed, the camera first presents a thumbnail of the last image taken — in the upper left quarter of the screen — and then presents the image full screen if Quick is pressed a second time.

Four more controls are aligned below the LCD screen, three of which provide a function in the Recording mode and the Playback mode:
In the recording modes (Auto, Scene and CSM) this button can control exposure compensation, and aperture and shutter speeds in Manual Mode when used in conjunction with the Multi-Selector. In Playback, or Thumbnail Review Mode, the button controls single image deletion.
In any of the recording modes, this button controls the flash modes, cycling through Auto with Red-eye Reduction, Forced on, Slow Synch, Auto, Forced Off. In Playback, pressing the button displays the images stored on the memory card as thumbnails, which can be seen in groups of four, or nine images.
During recording, the button is used to select the focus mode. Landscape, Macro, Self-Timer or a combination of Self-Timer and Macro mode. In Playback, the button serves to display the shooting data of an image displayed on the screen.
The Menu button calls up the camera's menu, or clears it off the screen. Menus are available in all modes except Auto and Movie modes.
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