Nikon Coolpix S710 Review

Nikon Coolpix S710 has a high resolution of 14.5 mega pixels. It has 3.6X wide angle optical zoom that allows you to capture close-up as well as expansive landscapes. It is powered by custom designed image processing technology called EXPEED which enables you to capture quality pictures of fast moving objects. With this technology you do not have to choose between clicking a picture and witnessing an action while in a game. Be it basketball or soccer, at 15 to 45 frames per second, Nikon Coolpix S710 ensures that you capture every moment of it.

Here are few more cool features of this camera:

• The bright 3.0” high resolution, anti glare, LCD at the back panel makes it easier for you to compose and share your pictures.
• The most salient features of this camera are program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual exposure modes. These features allow you let out your creative self by adjusting the camera settings to different types of lighting.
• Nikon Coolpix S710 allows user to record HD movies with sound. You can even enjoy HD playback on your computer.
• The 4 way VR image stabilization as in other Nikon Coolpix cameras ensures image sharpness .
• Nikon Coolpix’s smart portrait system has several technologies such as face priority AF, red eye fix, smile mode, Blink proof, blink warning and D lighting to ensure an excellent portrait quality. The
• Nikon Coolpix S710 has skin softening technology that smoothes the portrait skin tone up to three different levels to ensure a picturesque portrait.
• The subject tracking feature of the S710 keeps a track of moving subjects and keeps focused on them even when they temporarily move out the frame.
• The Scene auto selector adjusts the camera setting to the scene automatically.

Pros: Besides having excellent picture quality, Nikon Coolpix 710 is one of the few compact cameras that have manual exposure controls.

Cons: The main criticism of this s710 is it has slippery handle, slow shutter speed and fiddly control dial. Some users also critique its limited dynamic range and poor color depth.

Nikon Coolpix 5200 Review

Featured with the red-eye reduction technology, this 5.0 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5200 gives you the power to capture images at the resolutions up to 2592 x 1,944. It has built in memory of 12 MB and a zooming lens with focal range of 7.8 to 23.4mm.

It is capable of correcting red-eye within time of just 3 seconds and it gets activated when you set the camera to red eye reduction flash mode. All the process is automatic as it processes all by itself. You have the option for preset, automatic and seven white balance modes.

Furthermore, this camera split the shooting region into different sections to find out the most suitable setting for the capturing of realistic and lifelike colors. Nikon Coolpix 5200 also white balance bracketing utility that enables taking three shots simultaneously with a slight press of the shutter release at various white balance settings.

If we talk about movie mode in it, then let me tell you that it is capable of capturing video with audio at 30fps with different settings of 160 x 120, 320 x 240 and 640 x 480 pixels. The movie length will be determined by the amount of free storage you have in your internal memory or external memory cards.

They have some other features like:

•    Slow sync modes, auto and anytime flash

•    Red-eye reduction or correction

•    1.5 inch LCD

•    Total 15 scene modes which include portrait, sports, night portrait, sunset, landscape, museum, close up, snow/beach, backlight, fireworks show, copy, party, night landscape, and dawn/dusk

•    Include BSS (Best Shot Selector) which can take many shots randomly, analyze automatically, and pick up the best one and save it.

•    Macro shooting ability

Whatever image you capture, it gets stored in either the built in internal memory of 12 MB or external multimedia or SD memory cards. Those pictures can be downloaded to you PC via USB cable without the need to install any software. It has a rechargeable battery which can shoot up to 150 images if fully charged. The weight of this camera without battery and memory card is just 5.5 ounces.

If you buy this camera, then you get the following things as a package:

•    Of course-Nikon Coolpix 5200 camera

•    A/V and USB cables

•    A hand strap

•    An instruction manual

•    A battery charger (Model no:MH-61)

•    A lithium ion rechargeable battery

•    Picture project photo management software

•    Video impression for editing quick time videos

Pros: This camera is small, lightweight, sleek and sexy. Available at affordable price, it has easy navigation and captures images fast. Video and sound quality is nice along with quality pictures.

Cons: The bad thing in this camera is that it has plastic buttons and battery cover and no manual controls as well. Some menus are not intuitive and photo management software and file transfer is also poor.

Nikon Coolpix P6000 Review

If you are an enthusiast photographer in need of a compact digital camera that is not only stylish but also packaged with most of the advanced features, then I will suggest you to get yourself the Nikon Coolpix P6000, which was introduced lately by the Nikon Corporation to enhance the level of photographing. The Nikon Coolpix P6000 is the first digital camera that has a built-in Ethernet connection plus a built-in GPS receiver that allows the user to globally share their painstakingly captured images via the Nikon’s ‘my Picturetown’. Moreover, this 13.5 megapixel magnesium-bodied camera comprises of a 4x Zoom-Nikkor lens coupled with two ED glass elements. And besides the Vibration Reduction optical lens shift, the Nikon Coolpix P6000 also houses a 2.7 inches LCD screen of 230000 pixels for high resolution. The optical viewfinder setting is also available in this pocket sized camera for composing the photos.

Besides being a stylish camera, this Coolpix P6000 is also engineered on the EXPEED image processing concept and is packaged with Nikon’s innovative features that will make photographing a real fun.

A highlight of Nikon Coolpix P6000 features:

• A built-in GPS receiver ideal fo “Geotagging”
• 13.5 megapixel
• 4x Zoom-Nikkor lens (equivalent to 28 – 112 mm) plus optical VR stabilization
• A 2.7 inches LCD screen with 230,000 pixels
• Sensitivity range as high as ISO 6400 -the ISO range is 64 to 1600 at full resolution whereas 3200 and 6400 at 3MP.
• Raw as well as Raw + JPEG modes
• External flash hot shoe coupled with lens adapter rings
• LAN port (Wired)
• Face-priority AF
• USB connection
• Active D-Lighting
• Best Shot Selector Mode
• In-Camera Red-Eye Fix
• Internal memory of about 48 MB
• Distortion control
• Adjustable shutter and aperture speed
• 15 scene modes for different shooting situations
• 5 Movie modes
• 4 exposure modes (P/S/A/M)

The Nikon COOLPIX P6000 is a camera built to make photographing comfortable and is packaged with a rechargeable battery and an AC adapter along with the USB and A/V cables plus a COOLPIX software suite. It also offers a free online storage of about 2GB at Nikon’s ‘my Picturetown’.

Pros:  This is really a great camera with useful active D-lighting, simple menu structure and GPS plus panoramic, RAW capturing facility.

Cons: The drawback in this camera is the sluggish performance with flash being no automatic. The GPS has weak receiver and capture images slowly.

Nikon Coolpix S70 Review

Available in four color combinations, Nikon Coolpix S70 is an ultra compact, attractive and slim camera that easily slips into your pants pocket or even a small bag. There is a thin metal panel on its front that covers its internal wide angle lens with 5x zoom. If you slide down that cover, the camera turns on. The only button available in this camera is shutter release and I think it’s not really necessary. It totally relies on hand gestures for controlling almost all the features. These include swiping gestures for scrolling through images, pinching motions for zooming in and out and the touch screen shutter that captures images with a slight touch on the screen.

The other features include 720p video capture, effective 12.1 MP CCD image sensor and NIKKOR optics with 5x optical zoom. It also features a rubberized front panel for your hand’s grip and is entirely automatic.

By buying this camera you can get the following items along with it:

• Battery charger
• AV Cable
• USB Cable
• Software Suite CD
• Strap
• Li-Ion Battery

 This camera measures only 2.4×3.8×0.8 inches but has a good weight due to its metal construction. Though it has rubberized front panel for hand holding, it will just go unused as there is OLED on the back for four finger holding.

The key features of Nikon Coolpix S70 are:

• 12.1 Megapixel
• 5x optical zoom
• 3.5 inch OLED  monitor with touch screen
• Scene auto selector
• 20 MB internal memory
• SD and SDHC compatible
• Smart portrait system
• Quick retouch

The menu system in Nikon Coolpix S70 is quite attractive and easy to navigate. However it will not be necessary for you to use them since it is highly an automatic digital camera. But if you still want to change some settings, then the easiest way will be changing it in Auto mode where there will be different boxes around the monitor that will help in changing the settings to your desired mode. Altogether it is one of the best touch screen camera produced by Nikon Company that worth its value for the money you will be paying to purchase it.

Pros: This camera has large 3.5 OLED touch display, impressive viewing angles and responsive. It is capable of recording video at 720p high definition and very fast to turn on and shoots photo under 2 seconds.

Cons: Display resolution is poor in this camera and it highly depends on touch functionality (even it doesn’t have extra physical rocker for zooming). Also, poor noise at low ISO.

Nikon Coolpix S520 ReviewNikon Coolpix S520

Introduced by the Nikon Corporation, the Nikon Coolpix S520 is a compact digital camera which is sure to enthrall any camera enthusiasts with its beauty-with-brain feature. This 8 megapixel stylish camera has a 2.5-inch LCD screen with 153k dots and a 3x Zoom-Nikkor lens with lens-shift VR stabilization function which enables the user to capture blur-free images of great quality.

The Nikon Coolpix S520 is designed on the basis of the EXPEED digital image processing concept, maintaining the image clarity and quality with the aid of the cool features and the sensitivity settings up to ISO 2000. And in addition to the cool functions like In-Camera Red-Eye Fix, D-Lighting and Face-priority AF, the Coolpix S520 also features the Food mode as a new scene mode which enables the user to take attractive close-ups of the food in even high ISO settings at the restaurants, cafes and other places where the flash photography is not allowed. Altogether there are 16 scene modes available from where the user, for his comfort, can choose 3 of these scene modes to be displayed on the Mode menu. 

Moreover, the Face Zoom-in option also lets you to zoom in on the faces during playback and ensures you that all the subjects are captured clearly, no matter where they are positioned in the frame. You can also organize individual albums to save your painstakingly captured images, where each and every individual expression is conspicuously shown.

A Highlight of Nikon Coolpix S520 Features:

• Face priority AF
• In-Camera Red-Eye Fix
• D-Lighting
• 3x Optical Zoom-NIKKOR lens
• Optical Vibration Reduction Image Stabilization
• EXPEED image processor offers you quality images
• Macro shooting makes you able to take shots from as close as 15 cm (5.9 in.)
• Three movie modes
• Time zone function
• SDHC card
• Internal memory of about 23MB
• PictBridge
• USB connection
• 2.5 inch LCD screen with anti-reflection coating

Pros: This camera is easy to use and anyone can get satisfied with the quality pictures and useful features at the price of just $120. It has slim design and quite handy in use.

Cons: It has underwhelming screen and image quality is generally poor with counter-intuitive menu/mode buttons.

Nikon Coolpix P5000 Review

No doubt, this 10 megapixel compact digital camera offers you the chance to feel what real photographing is all about. Each and every shot you take would yield quality images with stunning colors. And the good thing is that the optical vibration reduction setting would compensate for the unintentional shaking of the camera so that you could capture blur-free images in even low lights. Beside these, the Coolpix P5000 houses a 2.5 inch LCD screen with anti-reflection coating, and an array of controls gives you easy access to different scene modes.

Like all the latest Nikon digital cameras, this Nikon Coolpix P5000 is also packaged with the cool and innovative features that assuage the pain out of photographing. For instance, the D-Lighting setting compensates for low light situations or excessive flash lights; the Best Shot Selector mode automatically selects the sharpest image while discarding others, among the series of shots simultaneously taken; the Red-Eye Fix removes red eye; and the Face-Priority AF automatically focuses on the faces of your subjects letting you to switch between them so as to ensure you that you take a clear shot of your subjects no matter where they are positioned in the frame. There are a lot more other settings in the Nikon Coolpix P5000 that will leave you feeling dazed, once you try to figure out what other features this compact digital camera houses. In addition to these, the I-TTL flash system is another special feature that this magnesium-bodied pocket sized camera introduces. 

All in all, Nikon Coolpix P5000 is a camera made to satisfy the frustrations of any camera enthusiasts.

A highlight of Nikon’s Coolpix P5000:

• I-TTL flash system
• Face-priority AF
• D-Lighting
• Red-Eye Fix
• 2.5 inch LCD screen with anti-reflection coating
• ISO sensitivity up to 3200( up to 2000 ISO in 10MP mode and till 3200 ISO in 5MP mode)
• 3.5x Zoom- Nikkor lens
• Best Shot Selector mode
• Internal memory of about 21MB
• Adjustable shutter and aperture speed
• P/A/S/M modes with other 16 scene modes
• Macro shooting lets you to take shots from a close view of about 4cm (1.6 in.)
• SD/MMC  cards plus SDHC card compatibility

Pros: Great design and the image quality is also very good with accurate color reproduction. It has the feature like vibration reduction and full manual controls.

Cons: The only shortcoming in this camera is “No RAW capturing capability”.

Nikon Coolpix P90 Review

With 24X optical zoom and 26mm wide angle for wide landscape shots, the Nikon Coolpix P90 has been the major attention in the world of camera these days. It is an ultra zoom digital camera capable of bringing far scenes up real close with 624mm tele and built-in image stabilization for eliminating camera shake while using long focal lengths.

It’s a perfect package for the beginner amateur photographer as it has fast startup, fast autofocus and precise in good lighting even at distance focal lengths. Image quality is just good at ISO 64. Higher ISOs in most of the digital cameras can cause more noise in the picture as well as detail loss.

PASM modes can be useful to the amateur photographer as it will allow them to graduate from point-and-shoot photography to make them acquainted with better knowledge of the control of the camera settings. Advanced photographers will however miss live histogram, hot shoe and raw file format.

According to the a people's survey, most people have said to like these following features of the NIKON Coolpix P90:

• Wide angle with 24x optical zoom facility
• Better quality image at low ISO of 64 when optimize image is set to vivid
• A tilting LCD for shooting the ground from close
• Full exposure flexibility
• Good metering
• Fast startup and fast autofocus
• Precise in good lighting even at distance focal lengths
• Well built structure and easy handling

One of the problems with these kinds of ‘superzoom’ cameras is that they place huge load on the lens and thus optical quality consistently suffers. The images that are taken at wide angle can be acceptable at small print sizes but can lack critical sharpness when printed on large sized photo paper.

Though Nikon Coolpix P90’s first impression are really praiseworthy with distortion correction and many other good features, there are some other things like fix infinity focus mode, AWB mode and LCD refresh rate that need to get improved.

Pros: You can get this camera at affordable price and the good thing is that it has 3 inch tilting screen. More than this, it is equipped with red eye, smile and blink detection.

Cons: It’s still a point and shoot, which can never replace a DSLR. The video quality is also not good and its performance is quite poor in low light.