Archive for the 'Nikon' Category
Nikon D2Xs Camera Review
Saturday, February 17th, 2007Nikon likes incremental upgrades. Just as the company issued the D70s before moving from the D70 to the D80, they made a handful of upgrades to the 12.4-megapixel D2X to create the D2Xs. In addition to improving the LCD viewing angle and tweaking the autofocus performance, the battery life, and a handful of other minor [...]
Nikon D40 Review
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006In many ways, you might consider Nikon’s D40 the Zelig of digital cameras. Is it a digital SLR with the spirit of a point-and-shoot? Is it a point-and-shoot with the power of a dSLR? It depends upon who’s doing the shooting. While the D40 will never morph into an ultracompact or grow up to be [...]
Nikon Coolpix L5 Review
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Sometimes, the appeal of simplicity is too hard to ignore. That could explain why we’ve seen a growing number of cameras that combine a very short list of features with lots of automation to provide a relatively thought-free shooting experience. This should definitely appeal to people who are confused by the various settings on most [...]
Nikon Coolpix L6 Review
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Despite all the fancy, feature-rich cameras we’ve seen this year, 2006 may make its mark as the year that features went by the wayside in digital cameras. Just as Olympus’s FE series brings new meaning to the idea of point and shoot, Nikon’s L series eschews features in favor of simplicity. Exposure control consists of [...]
Nikon Coolpix S10
Thursday, October 19th, 2006Nikon has been making swivel-body cameras dating back to its successful 900-series of Coolpix cameras in the late 1990s. Lately, in addition to the main benefit of allowing extreme low- and high-angle shooting, the company has taken advantage of the design as a way to build longer zoom lenses into relatively small camera bodies. The [...]
