Nikon COOLPIX S6100 16 MP Digital Camera with 7x NIKKOR Wide-Angle Optical

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Nikon COOLPIX S6100 16 MP Digital Camera with 7x NIKKOR Wide-Angle Optical

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Nikon COOLPIX S6100 16 MP Digital Camera with 7x NIKKOR Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens and 3-Inch Touch-Panel LCD (Silver)

Product Details

Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 3.9 x 2.3 inches ; 2.2 pounds
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
ASIN: B004M8SVEI
Item model number: S6100 Silver

By : Nikon
Price : $126.95
You Save : $72.05 (36%)

Product Description

Color: Silver
From the Manufacturer
Brilliant images anywhere.
Powerful
Finally, a camera you can take everywhere you go. The COOLPIX S6100 is small enough to fit in a purse, pocket, or glove compartment—and powerful enough to capture landscapes, close ups, and portraits. This compact camera has a 16.0-megapixel CCD sensor that captures sharp, stunning images—along with a 7x wide-angle optical Zoom-NIKKOR® ED glass lens that boasts a 28-196mm optical zoom to get close to the action. It's ideal for day trips, weekend getaways, and last minute outings.

On the road, on the go, in your pocket!

Meet your ultimate travel companion: the ultra-slim COOLPIX S6100. It's a mere 1.1 inches thin and weighs only 6.2 ounces. It's so light you can slip it into your pocket and take it to the park for a family outing, an outdoor concert, or a day at the beach. Plus, it's available in silver, black, red and violet, so it's as fashionable as it is portable.
Touch the screen. Get the shot. Share the smiles.

The COOLPIX S6100 is ready to shoot whenever you are. Just take it out of your pocket and frame your photo or movie in the three-inch high resolution 460,000-dot Touch monitor. Then touch the screen to adjust, focus and shoot. It's that simple. The COOLPIX S6100 includes in-camera Picture Editing, so you have access to Nikon technologies like Quick Retouch, Active D-Lighting, Soft Focus and many others. This camera even tracks moving subjects, automatically keeping them in focus and minimizing motion blur. And the screen's brightness control and anti-glare coating make it easy to compose, view, and share your photos—you can even watch them in a slide show, complete with music.

Fashion elegance. Nikon excellence.
The COOLPIX S6100 is brimming with the Nikon technologies that make it a breeze to shoot high caliber photos. Its four-way Vibration Reduction (VR) Image Stabilization System automatically reduces the streaky images associated with shaky cameras. And its motion detector spots moving subjects and adjusts the camera's settings to ward off motion blur. You're sure to get crystal clear shots regardless of lighting conditions because the camera boasts ISO speeds up to 3200. And, with Nikon's Best Shot Selector, you press the shutter once. The camera then takes 10 shots and selects the sharpest image.

One-touch HD movie recording

When a still picture doesn't tell the whole story, turn your COOLPIX S6100 into a movie camera with the push of a single button. Instantly you'll have HD 720p movies, complete with stereo sound. And you won't miss a thing because you can zoom out to capture broad landscapes or pull in for tight shots and close ups. Better still, watching and sharing your movies couldn't be easier, since the COOLPIX S6100 has an HDMI output for simple hookup to an HDTV or computer.
Convenient Features

Carry the COOLPIX S6100 in your pocket or purse and it will always be on hand to take great shots. Its Smart Portrait System includes Smile Timer, which releases the shutter when a subject smiles. The COOLPIX S6100 also has Blink Proof technology, allowing you to capture two shots and save the one with eyes open. The COOLPIX S6100's, in-camera Red-Eye™ automatically corrects red-eye. Face-Priority focuses on up to 12 faces and Skin Softening smoothes out skin tones.
Whether hiking in a park, or sitting at an outdoor café, you can easily capture crisp, detailed shots with the COOLPIX S6100. You also have your choice of 20 different Scene Modes to match your setting, or you can simply let Scene Auto Selector select one for you. Plus, it comes with a rechargeable Li-ion battery that lasts for approximately 210 pictures.
What's in the box

COOLPIX S6100 Digital Camera
AN-CP19 Strap
UC-E6 USB Cable
EG-CP16 Audio/Video Cable
EN-EL12 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery
EH-69P AC Adapter/Charger
TP-1 Stylus
Nikon View NX 2 CD-ROM

The Nikon Coolpix S6100 compact design packs a staggering 16 megapixels-the highest available in a Coolpix- to ensure super sharp, ultra detailed images, wherever life takes them. The 7x wide-angle optical Zoom-NIKKOR ED glass lens is ideal for capturing outdoor scenery in all its brilliance and grandeur. Nikon's superior imaging technologies including Motion Detection, Best Shot Selector and High ISO capture incredible images in a variety of situations.The enhanced touch screen is easier than ever to operate and picture taking, editing and viewing-right at the fingertips-is simply fantastic on the high resolution three-inch LCD panel. Owners will love the One-Touch HD movie recording feature-with stereo sound- that offers even more versatility to capture the fun of their travels easily and conveniently.

Technical Details

16.0-megapixel CCD sensor for stunning images
7x Wide-Angle Optical Zoom-NIKKOR ED Glass Lens
4-way VR Image Stabilization System
Touch Control 3-inch High Resolution (460,000-dot) Clear Color Display
HD (720p) Movie Recording with Stereo Sound and HDMI Output

Customer Reviews

This is a great little camera with alot of fun features. I had a hard time deciding between the s8100 and the s6100 because the s8100 takes faster pictures, 1080 video, a better sensor, and bigger zoom.The features listed below are the reasons I chose the s6100.
Touch screen--can use your finger but it can be a little tricky to move it just right. It does come with a stylus that allows you to move through the screens quickly. Makes it very easy to get through the menus. The menu on the left has the options for flash, self-timer, macro, and exposure compensation. The menu on the bottom has the options for touch shutter, image mode, movie options, and settings. The battery levels are always displayed in the left hand corner so there is no guessing how much battery is left. Above that the scene mode is displayed.
Scene selection--There are 19 scenes to choose from plus the scene auto selector. When you push the scene button and all 20 options are listed there is a question mark box in the upper right hand corner that will explain the different modes to help you choose the right one.
Filter Effects--It has the ability to draw or write on photos, add decorations, cross screen, fish eye, selective color, black and white, sepia. I have messed around with a few of these features, I will try to upload a few pictures. It also has glamour retouch and skin softening.
Playback button--Has options to star a photo as favorite, delete, slide show, protect, print, draw, retouch, voice record, and settings.
Charger--This camera can charge through your computer or it also has an adapter much like most cell phones now do so you can use the USB cord to charge using an outlet. There is a light on the back that flashes to let you know it is charging.
The dedicated movie button makes it very simple to record videos. Unlike the 8100, you cannot take a photo while you are recording with the 6100.
From the opinion of a hobby photographer, I think there are alot of features nicely packaged into this pocket-sized camera.

I've owned this camera for 3-months and waited until now to write a review because it was a gift and I really wanted to like this camera. But the more I've used it the less I like it. To be fair, it can take a descent picture under optimal conditions if you are careful, but so can a 1968 Kodak Brownie in the right hands. I really expected more from Nikon and modern electronic technology.
Let me give you a little more background... I'm 63 years old and I've been taking pictures since I was 8 years old. Last winter I suffered a stroke which affected the coordination in my left hand and I found it difficuly to operate my Nikon D50 SLR. My wife, trying to be nice to me bought an S6100 for my birthday because she assumed that a point-and-shoot would be easier and less frustrating for me to use than my D50 SLR. I was excited to get it and try it out. The Nikon S6100 was smaller, lighter and easier to carry. As far as being easier to use,
it is NOT! A person would expect an automatic point-and-shoot camera to be just that, point it, press the shutter release and get a fair picture most of the time. That's something this camera can't do with any regularity. A pox on Nikons house for the damn touch screen controls! Why have a touch screen shutter release function that duplicates the function of the shutter release button? While you try to hold the camera with your right hand you are almost forced to touch the screen while trying to frame the image and push the "real button". This more often than not activates the shutter resulting in a picture of the ground, your pant leg, or shoe. Then while you wait for the exceedingly slow electronics to store that image on the memory card, you miss several oportunities to try for a good shot. Would that this was the only problem with the touch screen. Nikon designed this cameras controls so the ONLY way to control various camera functions is through a menu system controlled using the touch screen. If that were not bad enough the screen itself is not sensitive enough to respond well to a finger touch unless you use a long finger nail or the little stylus hung on the wrist strap. This almost insures that you can't make any sort of quick option changes while you try to shoot. You may wonder if that screen does anything else. Yes, it shows a fairly bright image to use as a viewfinder or to review pictures of your shoes taken by mistake. Of course it is constantly smugged and dirty because you have to be touching it all the time.
How about the overall function? The S6100 is as functional as most of it's competitors in the crowded point-and-shoot field. It's a snapshot camera at best loaded with difficult to control features and totally unecessary post shooting editing functions that are much better done on your computer after you download the pictures. I expected better from Nikon and I certainly thought that a 16 megapixel sensor would capture better quality shots. Again I was disappointed. My 6 megapixel D50 captures better images and it's over 5-years old. In anything other than optimal light, the automatic functions of the S6100 bump up the ISO a few clicks and once that's happened the image quickly gets grainy without gaining good exposure. Again I sure expected better from the newer class of sensors and software. The S6100 can also take Quicktime movies with a single press of the movie button on the back. This would be a nice function if the movie button were not small placed directly below the right side thumb grip, almost ensuring that you will take some short movies you didn't want, again usually of the ground, your shoe, or the sky.
Oh, and then there is battery life. Not too good. I can get maybe 200 shots and a short movie before the "battery exhausted" message pops up on the screen, and then you are done since the only way to recharge it is to plug the whole camera into the charger or a computer USB port, you will be out of luck in the field unless you invest in a second battery, keep it charged and in your pocket while you'r out shooting.
Do you think I've been be too negative about the S6100?
Here are the good things about it:
1. It's small, light, and fits easily in a shirt pocket or purse
2. The zoom lens is Nikon, and they do make the best optics and the wide to full zoom is all you will probably ever need.
3. When you manage to get a snap shot it's usually of adequate quality, at least for your family album.
MY RECOMMEDATIONS:
If you want a point-and shoot Nikon, check out the S8100 or S9100, both much better cameras at only a slightly higher price.
If you want great pictures and care about control of your camera functions get a Digital SLR and learn how to use it.
If you want a touch screen get a smart phone. Most of those will take pictures and movies too, and might be easier to use than this camera, plus when you get frustrated with the smugged up touch screen, at least you can use it to call someone who cares.