Nikon Coolpix 5600 Point and Shoot Digital Camera, 5.1 Megapixel, 3x Optical, 4x Digital Zoom, 1.8" LCD Screen - Refurbished By Nikon U.S.A.

The Nikon Coolpix 5600 is the big brother of the Nikon Coolpix 4600 also aimed at beginning photographers and is packed with many useful and improved features in order to make photographing even easier than it is now. The Nikon 5600 is extremely compact and light making it a favourite travel companion that you can carry with you anywhere you go. The Nikon Coolpix 5600 has a comforting hand grip which makes the camera easy to hold & eliminates beginner's initial hesitations.

Starting the camera has fast response, as the camera is ready to shoot when turning it on. The fully automatic programs such as preset scenes and a freshly developed Graphic User Interface (GUI) make the Nikon Coolpix 5600 a extremely user-friendly digital camera. The menu is very well organized, allowing the you to select a function through text or an icon. A very useful is feature is a Dutch menu which is also available.

The Help-function explains every menu function shortly & easily. The menu is brightly rendered on the 1.8-inch sized monitora step up from previous 1.5" monitors. The larger monitor makes framing the images easier and is a lot more enjoyable for reviewing photos with family & friends. Nikon pleasantly reduced the energy consumption of the Nikon 5600 in addition to it's user-friendliness.

The Nikon Coolpix 5600 features a CCD sensor with 5.1 effective Megapixel resolution which enables the camera to take high-quality photo realistic images. The camera is equipped with a 3x optical Zoom-Nikkor lens as well as a 4x digital zoom. Another Nikon feature is the Macro function, the camera is capable of focussing as close as 4cm from the subject.

Distinguishing Nikon from most of its competitors are functions that improve ease of use. The D-Lighting function, can be activated for example in play back mode, to automatically improve a photo when too much backlighting or not enough flash light is the case, resulting in a correct exposure.

More attention is paid to the internal software of the camera. The advanced red-eye reduction is one typical example. This function recognizes the red-eye in most situations & automatically corrects this problem, an example of intelligent software! Another user-friendly feature is the failure warning when an unclear picture is taken.

The Nikon Coolpix 5600 features 16 of these preset scenes, amongst them a new one: the Underwater recording mode, beautiful colors from the underwater world are captured vividly and true-to-life, used with an optional Nikon WP-CP3 underwater housing. other preset scenes are the well-known ones like Landscape, Sunset, Action etc.

4 scenes even feature a useful composition assistance which enables every photographer to take perfect compositions. Images are stored on the internal memory of the camera or on an SD memory card. The camera has three different movie settings and when connected to a TV can be shared on a large screen.