Nikon Coolpix S8200 – Sharp Enough To Capture The Moment
The Nikon Coolpix S8200 is a new travel-zoom digital camera that features 14x zoom lens with versatile focal range of 25-350mm. It measures just 32.7mm thick and includes high resolution three-inch LCD screen, back-illuminated 16.1 megapixel CMOS sensor, lens shift Vibration Reduction, full 1080p high-definition movies with stereo sound, shooting mode dial, fast shutter-lag, startup time and autofocus system and 1cm macro mode. It also offers Easy Panoramas, target finding autofocus mode, in-camera HDR imaging, 6fps continuous shooting at full resolution, sophisticated Night Portrait and Landscape modes and range of special effects. The Coolpix is available in three different colors, which include Red, Gold and Black.
Freeze the action of winning goal or capture those summer evening images around the bonfire. Responsive, fast and boasting incredible NIKKOR ED 14x optical Zoom glass lens, the Nikon Coolpix S8200 will help you take photos you may previously have missed. The 16.1 MP CMOS sensor crisply renders your view of the world, whether far off fast action, sweeping panoramas or low light. You can capture clear, sharp images and Full high definition 1080p videos using the company’s incredible optics. Spice up movies and stills with special effects, and view everything on ultra-high resolution three-inch display that boasts 921,000 dots.
If your old camera never quite captured the moment, the Nikon Coolpix S8200, boasting 16.1 MP high-resolution CMOS sensor so you get superb photo quality even in low light. With versatile, fast and continuous shooting options, you can take those spontaneous moments shot after shot. Then show friends and family your still creations and movies on its three-inch ultra-high resolution display. Compact and stylish, the S8200 slips into the pants pocket but packs advanced features and luminous performance. The four advanced Vibration Reduction (VR) Image Stabilization of S8200 functions automatically reduce occurrence of streaky images associated with shaky devices.
The Nikon Coolpix S8200 is quite intuitive and offers excellent feature set for the money, with plethora of shooting modes to experiment with. It might not be as easy to recommend like previous model, S8100, but is still a very good small megazoom camera for the money. Rather than 18x zoom, the S8200 comes with 14x f3.3-5.9 25-350mm lens in camera body 1.3 inches thick. It also features high resolution image sensor as compared to S9100: 16-megapixels than 12. The S8200 is available for the price of $329.95 and comes with 16-megapixel ½.3 inch backside illuminated CMOS sensor, three-inch LCD display that boasts 921 pixel resolution, 14x f3.3-5.9, 25-350mm lens, file format of JPEG.H.264 AAC, highest resolution of 4608 x 3456/1920 x 1080p at 30 frames per second, digital and optical image stabilization, storage media of SDXC/SDHC/SD and bundled software of Windows/Mac.
The image of Nikon Coolpix S8200 is pretty good, however it isn’t the good low light performer, and does well with plenty of light like other cameras in this segment. It turns out nice colors, vivid and bright; you won’t find much visible distortion at either end of lens range. The video is on par with other point and shoot devices, good enough for nondiscriminating television viewing or Web use. The ISO sensitivity ranges from Auto, 3200, 100, 1600, 200, 800 and 400. Some of the white balance modes include Auto, Flash, Custom, Cloudy, Daylight, Fluorescent and Incandescent. It offer plethora of recording options such as Scene auto selector, Auto, Special effects, Scene, Continuous, Night Landscape, Subject Backlighting/HDR and Pet Portrait.
The focus modes of Nikon Coolpix S8200 are face priority, subject tracking, nine-area auto, center and manual with 99 focus areas. The metering modes include center weighted and multi pattern. You will find plenty of color effects on S8200 such as nostalgic sepia, selective color, high contrast monochrome, low key and high key. Those who are in the market looking for much beyond automatic shooting options on S8200, you will not find it, as it is the pure point and shoot camera. There are 2 Auto modes, Scene Auto Selector of Nikon situated under Scene modes that adjusts settings suitably on 6 common scene types. Apart from Scene Auto Selector, you will find 16 other scene options like Portrait and Landscape along with Pet Portrait mode and Easy Panorama mode, which just needs you to pan the camera right, left, down or up for capturing 180 or 360-degree shots.
Standard features on Nikon Coolpix S8200 include Effective Pixels: 16.1 million; Image Sensor: CMOS; Total Pixels: 16.79 million (approx.); 14x optical Zoom, NIKKOR ED glass lens; 4.5-63.0mm (angle of view equivalent to that of 25-350mm lens in 35mm [135] format); Lens Construction: 11 elements in 10 groups; Lens-shift VR; Contrast-detect TTL AF; Autofocus (AF) Focus-area selection: Auto (9-area automatic selection), Center, Face priority, Manual with 99 focus areas and Subject tracking; Focus Lock; 3.0 in. diagonal TFT-LCD screen with Anti-reflection coating and 921,000 dots Monitor Resolution; Storage Media: SD memory card, SDHC memory card and SDXC memory card; Movie: Audio file format: AAC stereo, Full HD: 1920x1080p / 30fps, HD: 1280x720p / 30fps, iFrame 540: 960×540 / 30fps, Movie file format: MPEG-4 AVC H.264 and Standard TV: 640×480 / 30fps.
The Nikon Coolpix S8200 also offers Exposure Control: Programmed auto exposure, Exposure compensation (-2.0 to +2.0 EV in steps of 1/3 EV) and motion detection; Exposure Modes: Programmed Auto; Exposure Metering: 224-segment matrix, center-weighted; Scene Modes: Back Light, Beach, Black and White Copy, Close Up, Dusk/Dawn, Fireworks Show, Food, Landscape, Museum, Night Landscape, Night Portrait, Panorama, Party/Indoor, Pet Portrait, Portrait, Snow, Sports and Sunset; In-Camera Image Editing: Crop, D-Lighting, Filter Effects, Quick retouch, Skin softening and Small Picture; White Balance: Auto, Cloudy, Daylight, Flash, Fluorescent, Incandescent and Manual; Mechanical and CMOS electronic shutter; Continuous Shooting Options: Best Shot Selector, Continuous, Continuous H 60, Continuous H 120, Multi-shot 16 and Pre-shooting cache.
Also standard on Nikon Coolpix S8200 include Electronically-controlled ND filter (-2 AV) selection; Hi-speed USB; HDMI Output Can be selected from: Auto, 480p, 720p and 1080i; I/O terminal: Audio/video (A/V) output, Digital I/O (USB) and HDMI Mini Connector (HDMI output); Supported Languages: Arabic, Czech, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese; Supplied Accessories: AN-CP19 Strap, UC-E6 USB Cable, EG-CP16 Audio/Video Cable, EN-EL12 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery, EH-69P AC Adapter/Charger, NikonView NX 2 CD-ROM and Reference Manual CD. Overall, the Nikon Coolpix S8200 increases the megapixel count and zoom to keep up to speed with competition, albeit slight price increase and merely average image quality prevents us from recommending the company’s most recent travel zoom model more highly.
