Nikon Coolpix S50c Reviewed
A review of the Nikon Coolpix S50c digital camera has been posted over at CNET. 'Some things never change. Some other things, such as Nikon's wireless S-series cameras, change a little bit at a time. Nikon's new Coolpix S50c is a whole lot like the S7c that the company offered last year. It boasts a 7.2-megapixel CCD imaging sensor, a 3X optical, 38mm-to-114mm-equivalent f/3.3-to-f/4.2 zoom lens, a 3-inch LCD, and houses it all in a cute, curvy-yet-slim casing that's available in silver or black. Oh yeah, and it can wirelessly upload (via built-in 802.11 b/g) your images to Nikon's CoolPix Connect 2 Web site and send e-mails to your friends and family so they can retrieve said photos for free. Other than some slight, but welcomed, control changes, the biggest and best difference between this and last year's model is the addition of optical image stabilization instead of the much-less-effective electronic stabilization found in the S7c.'
Features/Specifications:
• 7.2 Megapixels
• Internal Storage Memory: 13 MB
• 3.0-inch, 230K Wide Angle Viewing TFT LCD
• 3x Optical Zoom-Nikkor Lens, 6.3-18.9mm (35mm Format picture angle: 38-114mm), f/3.3-4.2, 12 elements in 9 groups
• 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
• 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: 3.8 x 2.3 x 0.8 inch (97.5 x 59 x 21 mm) excluding projections
• Weight: 4.4 ounces (125 grams) without battery and SD memory car
Read: Nikon Coolpix S50c - CNET