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Nikon Updates Coolpix Line-up

Nikon decided to grace us with some announcements last night, although those of you waiting for word on if something will replace the D700 are going to just have to wait a bit longer. Instead, we got the annual fresher for the Coolpix line-up, with 2 L-series entries, 5 S-series ones, and two P-series revamps. But because that’s too easy, one of the S series is being lumped in with the L series at the bottom. Confused yet? Good. We don’t like being the only ones.

From the bottom up, we find ourselves starting with the L “Lifestyle” series of entry-level compacts. And one S. But we’ll let that slide for now. These are the cheaper, budget-conscious models,and they are also the ones that still use AAs for power, if you’re into that sort of thing. As usual, the marketing speak in these releases is just amazing, so, far be it for us to deprive you of the joy, we’ll introduce each model with Nikon’s promo line. Starting with:

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Six new Coolpix cameras announced today! Hot Dog! Part 3-in-1

Before we get to the P7100, let’s rub a peeper over the S6200, S8200, and S100.

The S100 is a touch-screen compact packing a 16MP CMOS sensor, lens specs that look similar to the AW100 (28-140 equiv, f/3.9-4.8), optical image stabilization, and MPO format 3d images. That touch-control screen is a 3.5″ 820,000 dot OLED. Shiny.

The S6200 is a compact sporting a 10x optical zoom (25-250 equivalent, f/3.2-5.8) in a 1″ x 2.3″ x 3.7″ frame. The LCD screen is 2.7″ diagonal and holds 230,000 dots.

The S8200 is a compact SuperZoom -and by Super I mean 14x Optical Zoom (because digital zooming is still kinda baloney) – which makes for a 25-350mm f/3.3-5.9  equivalent lens.  Shooting modes like HDR, Easy Panorama, and 1080p HD video all make an appearance.  Pictures after the break.

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Six new Coolpix cameras announced today! Hot Dog! Part 2

And now we’ll take a look at their newest Coolpix with an integrated projector. Those of you with dull lives and long memories may remember the first Nikon with projector and the video Derek and I generated for it .

Ah, the sweetness of things past.

The S1200pj has a lot more going for it than the initial offering. For one it’ll take video input from an assortment of Apple iProducts – the iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, iPod nano®, and iPod® photo. Pretty much any flat surface can become a 5′ diagonal display for your comicbook reader or any video not streaming via Flash.

Pictures after the break.

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Nikon Coolpix L24 Doesn’t Break Any New Ground, No One Asked It To Anyway

This is Nikon’s other new L camera for the year. If it looks a lot like last year’s revamp, well, we’d have to agree with you. The L series compacts are getting pretty stalwart, and there’s not really much you could for change-wise at their price point anyway. The newest refresh has 14 megapixels, a 3.6x optical zoom, and a 3″ LCD with lower resolution than the others so far. It also lacks HD video, but will happily record you some at VGA resolution. It’ll come in red, black, and silver, and run a mere $120 when it trots onto shelves.



Nikon Coolpix L120 Has More Megapixels, Less Zoom Than Bigger Brother

Behold, the other bridge-style shooter in Nikon’s 2011 stable, this time from the “L is for Lifestyle” collection, meaning more budget-conscious than its “P is for Performance” brother. The Coolpix L120 has a few more pixels on it’s bigger brother, reaching up to 14 million of them, but it sticks it behind a more pedestrian 21x optical zoom covering 25-525mm equivalent. At least it’s still VR, though, and you’ll still find a 3″ 921,000 dot LCD on the backside, although this one’s fixed in place. IIt has no mode dial, scene and auto modes only, will do 720 video, and runs on AAs for power. In exchange for all those changes, it comes with a much soft $280 price tag. When it comes out, that is.



36x Optical Zoom? Nikon’s Coolpix P500 Can Do That.

What has a 12.1 mp back-illuminated sensor, dual C2 processors, and a VR lens covering an equivalent ranger of 22.5 – 810mm? Why, Nikon’s beastly little P500, that’s what! Adding one more model to what was once a much bigger market, the Coolpix P500 is one of the company’s two bridge-style superzoom for the model year, featuring DSLR-eque design cues but a big old fixed zoom lens on front for all your wildlife, vacation,and voyeuristic needs. A physical mode dial lets you choose between auto, scenes, and the usual PASM. As with the P300, though, you don’t need no stinking RAW, JPEG for life, buddy. There’s a 3″ tilty 921,000 dot LCD around back, and an EVF you can peep through for better stability or to escape bright sunlight washing out your view of your composition. Being electronic, you’ll get the usual concerns about refresh rates, but you won’t have to worry about parallax errors or zoom or framing, so, I’m generally all in favor of EVFs on a compact.

As if you could trot a camera out on this end of the scale without it, there’s 1080 HD video with optical zoom, as you’d well expect. Also as you’d expect, it records to SD/SDHC/SDXC. What you might not expect is that it will be available in black….and red! Also, it’ll be right at $400 when it ships, and images and press release are below. As you’d expect.

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Nikon’s P300 Joins the Fast Squad

Not wanting to be left out of the growing f/1.8 club, Nikon last night announced its new Coolpix P300 compact, whose most obvious selling feature is a 4.xx (24-100mm equiv) lens starting at a fast f/1.8 aperture. Sure, it creeps to a maximum aperture of f/4.9 on the tele end, but considering some point and shoots start about there at their fastest, we’ll go ahead and say that’s pretty all right. A (comparatively) large 1/2.3″ back-illuminated sensor with 12.2 megapixels sits behind that, and it’s all wrapped in that boxy bit of black beauty.  A 3″ 920,000 dot LCD around back shows you what’s what, and it’s got a built-in pop-up flash, 1080 HD video, and manual controls, but, we don’t see any RAW, so, a ding there. It does take SD/SDHC/SDXC, in case you were running low on alphabet soup this morning.

When it starts shipping, it’ll set you back about $330. More images and a press release after ze jump.

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Nikon Coolpix S80 Goes OLED

This is from yesterday, I just got caught up in meetings about our future and didn’t get the time to clack on these plastic keys to tell you about it. This is the Nikon Coolpix S80, the successor to the S70, natch. If you were a fan of the S70′s faux textures, you’re looking to be disappointed this year. If, on the other hand, you wondered what Nikon was huffing when they went with those over the smooth, bold colors of the earli Sxx cams, well, you’re in luck. The S80 returns to form with a simple, all-metal slide plate design, and will come in black, red, blue, pink, gold, and a rathe suave silver and brown duotone (pictured below).

So, what’s the dealio on the function, vs the fashion, of this shooter? The big news is the 3.5″ touchscreen seen last time is now OLED vs LCD. OLED has some advantages over LCD, including viewing angles and much richer blacks, so, the end result should be a very vibrant looking display. OLED has some problems in bright sunlight, though, so we’ll have to see how Nikon handles that. It’s got a 5x zoom like last year, but it’s no longer as wide. The new lens is a 35-175mm equiv. f/3.6-4.8. 5-way VR is still on board to keep shots crisp, though. Teh resolution is up to 14.1 megapixels, and everything’s being run through an Expeed C2 processor now. Unsurprisingly, it shoots 720p video. With stereo audio, of course. 17 scene modes, yadda yadda. Did we mention the 819,000 dot OLED touchscreen?

Oh, we did? Well then, you should just read the press release after the jump.

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Nikon Coolpix S8100 Has Back-Illuminated Sensor

Continuing the march of new Nikon compacts comes the Coolpix S8100 (successor to the–wait for it–S8000). The big buzz about this model is the back-illuminated sensor, which is a technology Sony has been trotting out a lot lately. So, if you weren’t around when back-illuminated sensors started coming out, here’s the ultra basic idea: on a traditional sensor, all the wiringis on top of the chip. Which means it blocks a little light. On a back-illuminated sensor, the wiring is on the back, which lets the pixels be ever so larger. It has nothing to do with being actually lit up from the back, like an LCD.

So, it’s got a back-illuminated CMOS sensor with 12.1 megapixels (a welcome step backwards from the S8000′s 14 megapixels). It’s paired up to a 10x wide zoom lens (30-300mm equiv f3.5-f.7). You can shoot 1080p video, it has a 3″ LCD with 921,000 dots, and it records JPEGs to SD/SDHC (it doesn’t mention SDXC, sorry cutting edgers).

Press release after the break.

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