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2014-09-15T20:00:00
This camera takes good fast clear pictures. The Macro is good. It has been in for service two times since March of 2014. Nikon customer service is good, their repair contractor, Precision camera cs is poor. Pay a bit more and go higher end to avoid this mess I had.
jonnyj
2014-05-22T20:00:00
didn't even last a year before messing up, sent back once for them to fix, keeps screwing up everytime I try to get a great moment. Time for trash.
sadmom
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Compact Digital Camera
16 million
CMOS
1/2.3"
16.76 million (approx.)
8x optical Zoom-NIKKOR lens
4.5-36.0 mm (angle of view equivalent to that of 25-200 mm lens in 35mm [135] format)
f/3.7 6.6
8 elements in 7 groups
8x
Up to 4x (angle of view equivalent to that of approx. 800 mm lens in 35mm [135] format)
Lens shift (still pictures) Lens shift and electronic VR (movies)
Motion Detection (still pictures)
Contrast-detect AF
Face priority, center, manual with 99 focus areas, subject tracking, target finding AF
[W]:Approx. 1ft8in. (50cm) inf T]: Approx. 5ft. (1.5 m) inf t. 4 in. (1 mMacromode:Approx. 0.8in. (2cm) inf (wide-angleposition)
(All distances measured from center of front surface of lens)
Yes
N/A
3.0 in. diagonal
TFT LCD with anti-reflection coating and 5-level brightness adjustment
460,000-dots
Approx. 97% horizontal and 97% vertical -shooting mode (compared to actual image);
Approx. 100% horizontal and 100% vertical (compared to actual image) playback mode
SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card
Approx. 25MB
DCF, Exif 2.3, and DPOF compliant
Still pictures: JPEG Sound files (Voice Memo): WAV Movies: Movies: MOV (Video: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Audio: LPCM stereo)
Full HD: 1920 x 1080/25/30p
Full HD: 1920 x 1080/50/60i
HD 1280 x 720/30/25p
iFrame 720/30/25p
640 x 480/30/25p
HS 640 x 480/100/120p
HS 1280 x 720/50/60p
HS 1920 x 1080/12.5/15p
Yes
4608 x 3456 (16M)
125-1600
125
ISO 3200, 6400(available when using Auto mode)
Matrix
Center-weighted (digital zoom less than 2x)
Spot (digital zoom 2X or more)
Programmed auto exposure and exposure compensation ( 2.0 +2.0 EV in steps of 1/3 EV)
Scene auto selector, Scene, Special Effects, Smat Portrait, Auto Mode
Back Light
Beach
Black and White Copy
Close Up
Dusk/Dawn
Fireworks Show
Easy Panorama
Food
Landscape
Museum
Night Landscape
Night Portrait
Party/Indoor
Pet Portrait
Portrait
Scene Auto Selector
Snow
Sports
Sunset
D-Lighting
Quick Retouch
Small Picture
Filter effects
Glamour retouch
Red eye reduction
Crop
+/-2 EV in steps of 1/3
Auto
Daylight
Incandescent
Fluorescent
Cloudy
Flash
Preset WB
Mechanical and CMOS electronic shutter
1/1500-1 s: 1/4000s (maximum speed during high-speed continuous shooting)
4 s (when scene mode is set to Fireworks show)
TBD
Single, Continuous H, Continuous L Best Shot Selector, Multi-shot 16, Pre-shooting cache, 120 Continuous H, 60 Continuous H
Electronically-controlled ND filter (-3.3 AV) selection
Can be selected from 10 or 2 seconds duration
[W]: 0.5 3.5 m (1 ft 8 in. 13 ft) [T]: 1.5 2.0 m (4 ft 12 in. 6 ft 6 in.) TBD
TTL auto flash with monitor preflashes
Yes
Hi-speed USB
MTP
PTP
NTSC
PAL
Can be selected from:
Auto
480p
720p
1080i
Audio/video (A/V) output; digital I/O (Micro-USB)
Yes
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Marathi
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese (European and Brazilian)
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
1/4"
One Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL19 (supplied)
AC Adapter EH-62G (available separately)
AC Adapter EH-71P and plug adapter (supplied)
Approx 1 hr 50 min (when using Charging AC Adapter EH 71P and when no charge remains) (Approx.)
Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL19
Still pictures: Approx. 180 shots
Temperature: 0 to 40°C (32 to 104°F)
Humidity: Less than 85% (no condensation)
3.9 x 2.3 x 0.9" (96.9 x 58 x 20.9mm)
4.9 oz (138g)
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