Product Description

The CoolPix S50 is equipped with a huge, bright 3.0-inch LCD great for viewing images anywhere, anytime. The impressive 170 Degree wide viewing angle makes it easier for everyone to see and enjoy images. The larger high resolution LCD lets you make the most of smooth, sharp movies, great-looking stills and exciting Pictmotion shows. The CoolPix S50 features 15 specially programmed modes to automatically handle focus, exposure, white balance and other adjustments that help you take great pictures easily. Pictmotion allows you to select your favorite images and movies, decide on a style, and pick one of five pre-installed music files or add your own. Pictmotion automatically combines a polished production with transitions and style synced to your music. Digital Zoom - up to 4x (35mm format picture angle - 456mm) Focus range from lens - 1 foot (30cm) to infinity Macro close-up mode - 1.6 inch (4cm) to infinity ISO sensitivity - ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, Auto (auto gain ISO 100-800) Built-in flash - Wide Range 1 to 19 foot 8 inches (0.3 to 6.0m), Tele Range 1 to 13 foot 1 inch (0.3 to 4.0m) High-Speed USB 2.0 & 802.11b/g Interface System Requirements - Macintosh Mac OS X version 10.3.9, 10.4.x, Windows Vista (32bit), Windows XP Home Edition/Professional and Windows 2000 Professional Dimensions - 3.6 x 2.3 x 0.8 inch (92.5 x 59 x 21 mm) excluding projections Weight - 4.4 ounces (125 grams) without battery and SD memory card

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19198 in Camera & Photo
• Brand: Nikon
• Model: 25558
• Released on: 2007-04-13
• Dimensions: 2.30" h x .80" w x 3.60" l, .75 pounds
• Display size: 3

Features

• 7.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for for photo-quality 16 x 20-inch prints
• 3x optical zoom through a quality Zoom-Nikkor lens (zoom is equivalent to 38-114mm in a 35mm camera)
• 3.0-inch LCD display; exclusive Nikon In-Camera Red-Eye Fix
• All-new Pictmotion creates in-camera slideshows with your music
• Sleek, all-metal design

Manufacturer Description
The new Coolpix S50 features 7.2-megapixel performance and a 3x optical Zoom-Nikkor glass lens. Optical VR Image Stabilization technology minimizes the effect of camera shake. The huge, bright, high resolution 3.0-inch LCD offers 170-degree wide angle-of-view, making it simple to compose and share pictures. High ISO up to1600 allows for shooting in lower light.

The Coolpix S50 also features feature 15 specially-programmed modes to automatically handle focus, exposure, white balance and other adjustments that help you take great pictures easily.

Nikon Coolpix S50 Highlights

VR Optical Image Stabilization Stability advanced... images enhanced. You can shoot sharper, clearer and without blur with Nikon’s ingenious VR Optical Image Stabilization technology improves stability by automatically compensating for camera shake.With Nikon Optical VR Image Stabilization you can shoot at shutter speeds up to three stops slower than other wise possible without camera shake blurring your pictures.

3x optical Zoom-Nikkor glass lens High-quality lenses deliver high-quality pictures. The Zoom-Nikkor glass lens gives you the power of 3x optical zoom lens (38mm-116mm; 35mm equivalent) while Macro capability lets you get as close as 1.6 inches. This combination is supported by Nikons’world-renowned optical technology delivering crisp, clear images.

New 1600 ISO capability See what you’ve been missing. High light sensitivity up to ISO 1600 opens up a whole new world of photo opportunity. Allowing you to tackle scenes and situations far beyond the capabilities of conventional compacts, high ISO offers you new power to capture fast-moving objects with outstanding clarity and gives you great exposure in significantly lower light.

Wider enjoyment with huge, bright, high-resolution LCD The Coolpix S50 is equipped with a huge, bright 3.0-inch LCD great for viewing images anywhere, anytime. The impressive 170-degree wide viewing angle makes it easier for everyone to see and enjoy images. The larger high-resolution LCD lets you make the most of smooth, sharp movies, great-looking stills and exciting Pictmotion shows.

Nikon In-Camera Innovations

• Rotary multi selector Swift circular scrolling action allows speedy image browsing at up to 10 images per second. On-screen icon with cursor tracks scrolling for easy feature selection.
• Auto image rotation Detects pictures that have been taken with thecamera held vertically and automatically rotates the image for in-camera LCD playback.
• Anti-Shake button overcomes camera shake by activating optical VR image stabilization, High- Sensitivity mode and Best Shot Selector all at once, providing images that are steady and sharp.
• In-camera cropping Allows you to crop out the part of the image you don’t want and keep the part you do.
• Blur warning Alerts you to a burry image.
• Noise Reduction mode Minimizes digital artifacts in long exposures.
• Best Shot selector Enables the camera to take a series of photos and automatically select the one with the sharpest focus.
• Voice Memo function Records up to 5 hours of sound that can be then attached to an image, or played back alone as a wav file.
• Date and time imprinting Available to document the exact time and date that your photo is taken.
• In-Camera Red-Eye Fix This in-camera feature automatically fixes most typical occurrences of red-eye.
• D-Lighting Compensates for underexposed images or insufficient flash by automatically adding light and detail to selected shots where needed -- without affecting properly exposed areas.
• One-Touch Portrait Your shortcut to three unique innovations, it offers instant access to Face-priority AF and In-Camera Red-Eye Fix for optimized image capture and lets you transform exposure with Nikon’s powerful D-Lighting advantage.
• Face-Priority AF Automatically finds and focuses on people’s faces to ensure superb portraits with clear, crisp focus.

Pictmotion Reshape the way you share. Pictmotion allows you to select your favorite images and movies, decide on a style, and pick one of five pre-installed music files or add your own. Pictmotion automatically combines your elements in a polished production, with transitions and style synced to your music.

Customer Reviews

You will want to carry this camera everywhere
For a pocket camera that you will want to carry everywhere, this is a great choice. My complaints are (1) shutter lag and (2) the lack of depth of field in landscape shots; my SLR makes up for the S50's flaws.

The S50 is easy to use and great for family gatherings. My prints always look better than what similarly-priced pocket cameras take in the same settings.

The museum setting is one of my favorites. It works very in cathedrals and museums. I used a tripod and the museum setting to take photos of a night-time light show last summer -- beautiful results! I don't think my SLR would have done any better.

Great size, but at the expense of picture quality
PROS: the worst picture is the one not taken, and with it's size you can always have this camera with you. The large rear-screen is nice. the camera has a ton of features and settings, so many that it takes some time to scroll through them to find the right one for lighting conditions. CONS: It is not really "point and shoot", if you have a fast moving subject or challenging lighting conditions, you have to take some time to find the proper settings, or you get a blurred or grainy picture. the large screen pushes the control panel to one side, which is then difficult to grip without hitting a button unwillingly.

Not Nikon's best
I wanted to like this camera - I really did. I'm an enthusiastic owner of a D80, which I adore. So when I needed a small camera for travel, I thought this sleek Nikon would be just the thing. It looks beautiful, and it's so tiny that holding it almost makes you feel like a spy.

But after using the camera for just three weeks, I returned it to the store. There's the annoying finger-in-the-frame tendency that other reviewers have mentioned: even though you know you need to compensate for that, a finger still winds up in the shot occasionally. There's also the fact that once you account for all the bulky wires and chargers and accoutrements, it's not such a small package after all. And the battery life was far too short. But most importantly, there's the picture quality. Though it is possible to get great shots with this camera, I got far too many that were grainy, and it didn't perform well in low light, either.

I wish this had worked out - I love Nikon and I loved the way this camera looked and felt. I just felt I couldn't trust it with my once-in-a-lifetime travel photos. I suppose if someone were looking for a camera to snap party pictures or around-the-town shots, it could be a good choice.