Nikon Coolpix S550 Digital Camera Review
Nikon Coolpix S550 Review
Nikon has always been known to produce excellent digital cameras and the Nikon Coolpix S550 is just that. Excellent. With this camera, you’ll get detailed shots with its high quality 10.0 megapixel CCD. Nikon has also incorporated a 5x optical zoom lens with it that is quite nice considering the average zoom for a camera of this size is usually 3x. Screen size on this new compact digital camera is average, but who can really complain with a 2.5 inch LCD display. It’s large enough to see exactly what it is you are capturing and it’s large enough to set up a slideshow to show off you your friends and family.
There are a multitude of scene modes and shooting modes on the Nikon Coolpix S550. Shooting modes include Flash cancel/ flash off, Auto, Anytime flash, Red-eye reduction, Auto with red-eye reduction and Redeye reduction with slow sync. The scene modes on the new Nikon Coolpix S550 include Museum, Portrait, Night Landscape, Landscape, Beach/Snow, Sports, Fireworks, Show, Night, Portrait, Party, Dusk/Dawn, Sunset, Close Up and Panorama Assist. The panorama assist feature is a blast to play with if you want to make a very wide picture of a house or landscape.
With the Nikon Coolpix S550 you can take excellent portraits of friends or family with the face detection technology, and the new smile shutter and blink warning features. Enabling these functions when you are taking pictures will locate the faces within the picture, adjust features so the face doesn’t come out overexposed or underexposed as well as let you know that you need to take the picture again because of unfortunate blinking. Taking low light photography with this camera is also very exciting because you can adjust the ISO up to 2000 to allow you to get all the natural color of your low light situation, without worrying about ruining the situation with the flash.
The Nikon Coolpix S550 gets an 8 out of 10 stars from OurCameraReviews.com for functionality and it’s impressive all metal design.
Nikon Coolpix S550 Details
- Megapixels: 10.0
- Zoom: 5x Optical
- Screen Size: 2.5 inch, wide LCD
- Shooting Modes: Flash cancel/ flash off, Auto, Anytime flash, Red-eye reduction, Auto with red-eye reduction and Redeye reduction with slow sync
- Scene Modes: Museum, Portrait, Night Landscape, Landscape, Beach/Snow, Sports, Fireworks, Show, Night, Portrait, Party, Dusk/Dawn, Sunset, Close Up and Panorama Assist.
- Face Detection: Yes
- Unique Features: Smile Shutter & Blink Warning.
- Editing Options: N/A
- Max ISO: 2000
- Self-Timer Settings: 10 second countdown, 2 second countdown
- Battery: EN-EL11 Li-ion Battery
- Battery Life: 200 images approx.
