Product Description

Impressively high megapixel counts enable the COOLPIX L10 to capture images with captivating color and outstanding detail. Such capability also means images can be considerably enlarged, yet still look absolutely stunning.Accurately measuring available light, the L10 automatically selects the best sensitivity setting. And with impressive sensitivity range up to ISO 800, it makes it easy to take great looking pictures in low light conditions.Compatibility with AA-size batteries, which are widely available around the world, means users can go on shooting virtually anywhere without worrying about recharging or running out of power.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10530 in Camera & Photo
• Brand: Nikon
• Model: 25564
• Dimensions: 2.40" h x 1.00" w x 3.50" l, .75 pounds
• Memory: 7MB
• Display size: 2

Features

• 5.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 13 x 17-inch prints
• 3x optical zoom; 2.0-inch Super Bright LCD display
• Face Priority AF automatically focuses on the face of your subject
• D-Lighting improves brightness and detail where needed
• Powered by 2 AA-size batteries; stores images on SD memory cards

Manufacturer Description
The Nikon Coolpix L10 combines an array of high-quality components, including a 3x Zoom-Nikkor lens and a bright 2.0-inch LCD screen with in-camera image-improvement features, housed in a lightweight, compact, yet elegantly-finished body. It boasts a powerful 3x Zoom-Nikkor lenses with a focal range equivalent to that of a 38-116mm (35mm equivalent), providing the freedom to zoom in for tight personal portraits or out to capture expansive outdoor scenes.

The CCD delivers higher performance within tighter dimensions, greatly adding to the camera's compact form and portability while offering a generous effective megapixel value of 5.0, ensuring the refined image clarity that users have come to expect from other members of the Coolpix family.

The Coolpix L10 also features 15 specially programmed modes to automatically handle focus, exposure, white balance and other adjustments that help you take great pictures easily.

Nikon Coolpix L10 Highlights

3x Optical Zoom-Nikkor glass lens High-quality lenses deliver high-quality pictures. The Zoom-Nikkor glass lens gives you the power of 3x optical zoom lens, while Macro capability lets you get as close as 5.9 inches. This combination is supported by Nikons’ world-renowned optical technology delivering crisp, clear images.

High ISO capability See what you’ve been missing. The Coolpix L10 boasts increased sensitivity up to 800 ISO, for improved low-light performance.

Incredible, bright 2.0-inch LCD The Coolpix L10 is equipped with an incredible 2.0-inch LCD, perfect for viewing and sharing images.

D-Lighting In playback mode, D-Lighting will compensate for underexposed images or insufficient flash by adding light and detail to selected shots where needed, without affecting properly exposed areas.

Face-Priority AF To ensure superb portraits with crisp focus, select Face-Priority AF (in Portrait Scene mode). This feature automatically finds the subject’s face and focuses on it.

In-camera color options & QuickTime movie with sound Shoot a QuickTime movie with sound at 30 frames per second, and choose from five color shooting options (standard, vivid color, black and white, sepia, cyanotype).

Transfer Directly to Printer, TV or Web

Print directly from your camera You can transfer images directly to print, without the need of a PC, when using PictBridge and USB Direct Print compatible printers.

Connect directly to your TV

Nikon In-Camera Innovations

• Movie recording allows you to record movies in three modes, with sound: TV movie size (640), small size (320) and smaller (160) for extended recording or Internet usage.
• Voice Memo function records up to 20 seconds of sound that can be then attached to an image.
• Color options allow you to make pictures more vivid or record monotones.
• In-camera cropping allows you to crop out the part of the image you don’t want and keep the part you do.
• Best shot selector enables the camera to take a series of photos and automatically select the one with the sharpest focus.
• Blur Warning alerts you to a burry image.
• Noise reduction minimizes digital artifacts in long exposures.

Customer Reviews

Highly Improved Low End L Series
With the standard proviso that tech stuff always gets better and cheaper, I highly recommend this new camera model for the low price. I have only had it for two days, since Nikon didn't warranty my broken LCD screen on my L4. Please do be careful with the fragile nature of these electronics! I didn't drop it or abuse it, and it apparently broke in my pocket within a padded case!

Back to the L10, most everything is better than the previous, low end, L cameras, with improved sound, and what is great for me, voice recording capacity, outside of 20 second voice memos attached to a particular photo. While digital voice recorders are cheap for PCs, I have a Mac and previously, only iPods with accessories, or other costly recorders, can create sound files to be then imported to your computer and then burned to CDs. With just a 512 MB card, you can record for hours.

The image quality is a bit bluish, some color cast that hopefully can be corrected with software. The sharpness looks O.K., and for the price, it's fine for me. This makes a great back-up camera, as I use another more expensive L series camera. On the road, I can't afford missing a great scenic shot, or hundreds of those.

The L10 is smaller and slimmer than the L4. It carries well in your pocket. It has slightly simpler buttons and controls. The lens retraction is quicker on shut-off, and the zoom is rather abrupt. Other new, handy features are characteristic of the planned obsolescence of most tech items. Goodies that will have you wanting to upgrade!

It will remain to be seen how durable this camera turns out to be, but I have high hopes. I intend to be more careful, and never subject this beauty to shock or any possibility of drops.

Speaking with a tech support rep, you need to have nickel metal hydride batteries with more than 2000 mAh worth of power, in lieu of what they recommend (Nikon-approved rechargables). Some of my Ray-o-Vacs aren't.

I'm using only the approved SD cards, but they now support up to 4GB cards. That's great if you can trust the card not to fail--why I buy several in smaller capacities, and therefore don't have all my eggs in one basket. You'll get enough memory, then at 4 GB, for probably then, a few thousand photos storage.

One major thing they can work on are the streaks that still appear in movie mode when faced with bright reflections or sun. Not as bad in earlier L's, these don't appear in final still images, but are seen in movies. You then have to remember not to shoot movies outside of evenly lit scenes. My older Coolpix cameras didn't have this problem. The movie quality is pretty good, but a bit down from my movies using my L5. Shooting movies of a train, the bells and horns are much clearer sounding than the earlier models.

Despite what the ads say, I can find no VR feature on this model, and nothing about it in the manual. Unless it is enabled all the time, which it seems to be not, you may wish to wait till this excellent feature becomes standard on all models. For more serious photographers, VR is included on the higher end, new L's.

Also, I see nothing about ISO capability to 800, but I haven't yet tried night or low light scenes. One telephoto came out blurred, with no blur warning, there.

All in all, this is fantastic technology, all at a highly affordable price, and although Nikon isn't the top rated brand as it used to be, I'd get this as a first, around-the-home and back-up, digital camera, if you haven't owned a good one yet.

Nice, Cheap and Small
I bought this camera for my daughter and was pretty impressed. It is easy to use, takes great pictures, has a lot of options, and is very small (pocket-sized). In fact it was kind of depressing because I paid $250 for a 5MP this time last year.

You will need a memory card for this camera. The internal memory only holds 3 pics at the highest res. 1 GB which will hold 400 pics.

The only thing I would warn you about is: If you try to use a used memory card, you will need to format it with the camera though the menu, or with Windows, befor you use it. I tried to use one from my old camera and the transfer software wouldn't work on two different computers, it kept saying "Enumerating" and never read the pics. After formatting the card, it was fine. Also, this camera claims to support only specific SD cards from SanDisk, Panasonic and Toshiba, which is weird because I thought SD was a standard. See page 102 of the manual.

Good Little Camera
This small Nikon easily fits in your pocket. The large screen makes it easier to take pictures that aren't on a tilt (a problem I had with my Pentax). The photos are well-defined, with true color. I have had this camera less than a month, so I don't know how durable it will be. So far, so good.