Product Description

There's a Nikon Coolpix digital-camera for everybody. The L6 is designed for the casual and serious person who demands quality still and movie images capturing for personal, family, and travel. It's compact, light, practical, and extremely easy to use. Just point and shoot! It's that simple. LCD monitor - 2.5-inch type, 115,000-dot TFT LCD monitor with brightness adjustment Storage media - Internal memory - approx. 23MB, SD memory card compatible not included Shooting modes - Auto, 4 modes with Scene Assist (Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night portrait), 11 Scene Modes (Party/Indoor, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night landscape, Close up, Museum, Fireworks show, Copy, Back light, Panorama assist, Voice Recording), BSS (Best Shot Selector), Color Options, Blur Warning, Date Imprint, Self-timer (3, 10 sec.) / Movie - With sound - TV movie (640) at 30/15fps, Small size (320) at 30fps/15fps, Smaller size (160) at 15fps Capture modes - 1) Single, 2) Continuous (approx. 2.2fps), 3) Multi-shot 16 (approx 2fps, only available at image size 6M), 4) Interval timer shooting Built-in flash - Range - 1 ft-16.4 ft./ 0.3-5m (W), 1 ft.-9.8 ft./0.3-3m/. (T) / Flash modes - Auto, Auto with Red-eye Reduction (In-Camera Red-Eye Fix), Flash cancel, Anytime flash and Slow sync Battery life (approx.) - Up to 1,000 shots with Energizer e2 Lithium? batteries, 400 shots with alkaline batteries, and 540 shots with EN-MH1 rechargeable Ni-MH batteries (based on CIPA standard) Unit Dimensions (W x H x D) - 3.6 x 2.4 x 1.0 inch; 4.4 ounce

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17780 in Camera & Photo
• Brand: Nikon
• Model: 25551
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
• Display size: 2.5

Features

• 6.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 14 x 19-inch prints
• 3x optical zoom; 2.5-inch LCD
• Face Priority AF, In-Camera Red-Eye Fix, and D-Lighting
• Auto-adjusts ISO up to 800, for shooting in low-light situations
• Stores images on SD memory cards; powered by 2 AA-size batteries (2 AA-size Energizer e2 lithium batteries included)

From the Manufacturer
The Nikon Coolpix L6 is a compact camera offering powerful imaging performance, easy operation, and outstanding battery life, allowing users to shoot with greater confidence for better-looking results.

The L6 is a slim, lightweight model with an impressive imaging performance of 6.0 megapixels. This is a truly dynamic camera; a focal range of 38-116mm makes it possible to accurately capture the detail and colour of both the smallest nature shot and the widest landscape panorama.

The Coolpix L6 is set apart from industry competitors by its capacity to shoot an incredible 1,000 images when using the supplied Energizer lithium AA-sized batteries, the longest battery life provided by any camera manufacturer (as of August 2006), making this model the perfect companion for situations where you can't afford to be let down by your camera.

The Coolpix L6 is a flexible tool, delivering excellent performance under any set of demands. The ISO sensitivity with settings up to ISO 800 makes it possible for the photographer to shoot pictures in lower light without having to use a long exposure.

The camera is able to intelligently adjust images in order to achieve optimal results in any set of conditions. By simply selecting one of 15 Scene Modes most closely corresponding to the scene at hand, the Coolpix L6 is able to automatically choose the best settings for the optimum results. Four of these handy Scene Modes also feature a Scene Assist, which helps users to achieve better composition.

The Coolpix L6 makes it simple to get great-looking results in challenging situations. Three unique in-camera Nikon image innovations adjust the image, detecting and correcting imperfections: Face Priority AF automatically detects and achieves sharp focus on people's faces wherever they are in the frame; In-Camera Red-Eye Fix automatically overcomes the red-eye effect sometimes caused by flash; and D-Lighting makes it possible to rescue underexposed images or shots taken with too much back-light. (Face recognition capability may be limited in some shooting conditions.)

Also included is a function which allows the user to connect the camera directly to PictBridge-compatible printers to produce beautiful photos without the need for a computer.

The Coolpix L6's intelligent functions ensures that the camera does all the hard work; you simply have to find your subject and enjoy your perfect photos.

What's in the box
Nikon Coolpix L6 digital camera, 2 x Energizer e2 Lithium batteries, strap, UC-E6 USB cable, EG-CP14 audio-video cable, PictureProject CD-ROM

Customer Reviews

Nikon L6: A compact Versatile Camera.
Nikon L6: A compact Versatile Camera.

I have taken 200 pics and 12 videos in one week. A friendly camera, learning and opinion as follows:-

1. Colors: True and natural. Just captures the real colors. This is the best quality. You capture what you see.
2. Buttons and Functions: Simple, heuristic, no need to do a serious reading of the book.
3. Settings: The options are varied, good. Liked the video capture options very much i.e. for options for computer size image, TV size image and TV* image size. Videos on projection up to 5ftX 4 ft look good. For video presentations, Audio capture: has noise while play back on the camera. The noise is much lower when played on computer or projector. A steady background hiss. Mostly, because microphone faces forward, hence the commentary spoken from behind has poor noise to signal ratio. But it is fine.
4. Still Snaps; Good. A 3 MP size image is about 400 KB. Used for presentations. Lower resolution is also available. At high end, 6 MB it is perfect.
5. Body: Sturdy, compact. Impressive and austere, no unnecessary contours, labels, very somber looking.
6. LCD: 2.5 inch, in bright sun, the image is not visible, this is understandable.
7. No standard optical view finder. The LCD and Camera hibernates very quickly after 15 to 20 secs non use. Great on battery
8. Battery: 2 AAs cells. Great. This means one can use the camera right out of the box, no need to carry charger, no need to buy additional battery lithium for 40 to 50 $, when run out, just pop in fresh two AAs. Rechargeable AAs of 2700 mA are very good indeed. Carry 2 spare in office bag.
9. Video Zoom. All new digital compacts either do not have zoom whilst recording or the zoom jumps in multiples of 1x. This is jumpy. I miss the smooth step-less 4x optical to 4 x digital continuous 16x smooth zoom of my Kodak 4 MP. I tested: mostly all new compacts now have a zoom in video capture that goes boom boom 1x 2x 3x ....Can not fault Nikon for this.
10. What did I want? I wanted a compact traveling, high quality work camera, always in my laptop case, which is also great for the family/home pictures. I got that in Nikon L6.

Good solid camera.

Pros:
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1- Small and compact, yet not too small to be uncomfortable to hold. (Cameras are going back to being slightly bigger than credit cards to lower the effect of shaky hand and blurry images.

2- Uses AA batteries. Great lifespan with 2100mah NIMH rechargeable.

3- Picture quality especially in well lit surroundings is truly impressive. darker areas are not too bad either.

4- Movie clips upto 1GB in size is quite nice. This translates into about 18mins of recording on the highest setting.

5- Auto shut-off is relatively fast which avoids wasting battery life.

6- has a blur warning, to let u know if u have taken a picture which will be too blurry for printing. Does this immediately after taking the picture, so u can take a second one.

Cons:-
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1- Flash is a bit week. Pix taken in very dark places (bar, club,..etc) are a bit grainy, but nothing too excessive however.

2- There is no setting to review the pix taken without having the lens extend on power-up, or when connecting camera to a pc to download images. In other words the lens is always protruding from the camera when it powered up. This shortens the mechanisms life and makes the camera somewhat harder to pass on to other to see pictures. and can be damaged easily.

3- Cannot zoom movie clips when recording has started ( this is the case with most cameras these days).

4- Flash takes too long to recharge between pictures.

5- Becuase of the flash recharge delay, u are not able to review pictures already taken, until the flash has finished re-charging for the next picture.

I wanted to try and cover issues that other reviewers may not point out. I have to say however, except for "Con #5", the other issues aren't major to me. Overall I like the camera and don't regret buying it.

simple but good
This camera is a very simple model that leaves a lot of controls off, but gets the main part right, that is producing nice prints. It is rather slow for these days ,mainly flash recycle speed and focusing in low light. On the bright side, the use of two AA batteries is great and they last a long time, much better than an expensive lithium rechargeable. The looks are kind of boring but OK after I got used to it. also the LCD is low res ,you don't get all the goodies at a low price. Fits in a pocket, nice and slim without being too tiny. I like mine for when I want to go small and simple.