Nikon Coolpix S8000 Features
The Nikon Coolpix S8000 has 14 megapixels and a 10x zoom lens. The focal length of the lens is equivalent to 30 - 300mm in 35mm format. 2x digital zoom is available too.
Other features worth mentioning are a 3 inch LCD screen, images stabilisation, High Definition movies and a number of controls to help you produce good looking portrait shots.
Basics
- Self Timer: 2 or 10 seconds
- Macro focusing: 1cm
- Blink warning
- Smart Portrait: Automatically takes a photo when someone is smiling
- D Lighting: Enhance a photo by adjusting the lighting
- Automatic red eye fix
- Blink proof: Takes two shots and keeps the one where eyes are open
- Skin softening
- Creative slider for setting brightness, vividness and colour hue
- CCD Size: 1/2.3 inches
- Resolution for widescreen TV playback
- Best Shot selector
LCD
The LCD monitor is 3 inches in size. The screen is made up of around 921,000 dots.
Flash
The flash modes are: auto, red eye reduction, on, off and slow sync.
Scene Modes
There are a number of preset scene modes. These are: Portrait, Landscape, Food, Night Portrait, Party/Indoor, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Close-up, Panorama Assist, Museum, Fireworks, Copy, and Back Light.
Movies
You can shoot High Definition quality movies with a resolution of 720p. The top recording speed is 30 frames per second. Optical zoom can be applied before shooting starts.
Advanced Features
Among the more advanced features are:
- ISO: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
- Exposure Compensation: +/- 2 in 0.3 steps
- White Balance: Auto, Manual, Daylight, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Cloudy, Flash
- Maximum Aperture: f/3.5-5.6 (set automatically)
Computer
All the necessary cables and software are supplied to attach the Nikon Coolpix S8000 to a computer.
