Nikon Coolpix S8100 Black
Superior High Speed Blended with Exceptional Low-Light Performance
The new COOLPIX S8100 offers a 12.1-megapixel backside illumination CMOS sensor to provide consumers with enhanced performance for high-speed shooting and low-light conditions. The S8100 also incorporates Nikon’s exclusive EXPEED C2™ image processing engine, which is customized to each COOLPIX model to further drive enhanced performance, image quality and HD video.
To help capture moments that are gone in an instant, the COOLPIX S8100 features both high-speed shooting at five full resolution frames at up to 10 frames-per-second (fps), and a pre-shooting cache that records up to two shots before the shutter-release is fully pressed. For extremely fast action shots, the S8100’s Sports Continuous mode records up to approximately 120 fps. With Subject Tracking, the S8100 automatically tracks a designated subject by activating autofocus (AF), enabling users to capture the best moment confidently.
Staying true to the legacy of the Style Series, the S8100 empowers users with serious performance and image quality, while remaining stylish and compact. Equipped with a 10x Optical Zoom-NIKKOR ED Glass lens (30-300mm), the COOLPIX S8100 allows users to get close to the action, even when recording videos in Full HD (1080p). For that family film producer, the S8100 features one-touch recording, optical zoom and stereo sound recording while filming for an enhanced user experience. Additionally, users can perfect their movies in-camera with a new editing function or snap still images while recording.
Advanced Technologies for Beautiful Nighttime Shots
The 12.1-megapixel backside illumination CMOS sensor enables exceptional image quality even when shooting in low-light settings. This CMOS sensor lends itself to enhanced shooting functions in dark situations, including the advanced Night Portrait mode, which reproduces night scenes and indoor portraits as users see them while reducing image blur. The Night Portrait mode combines consecutive shots of the background while the subject is taken using the flash, allowing breathtaking night scenes to be easily captured during handheld shooting and eliminating any subject movement. To further help deliver crisp, sharp photos, the S8100 features a 4-Way Vibration Reduction (VR) Image Stabilization System with ISO settings up to 3200.
Other functions benefiting from the lower noise and exceptional image quality of the new CMOS image sensor include an advanced Backlight shooting function with an in-camera high dynamic range (HDR) function, which merges images of the same scene to achieve a single image with a broad range of tonal detail for a frame-worthy shot. Additionally, the S8100’s advanced Night Landscape mode combines a series of five consecutive shots taken at a fast shutter speed into a single image with reduced noise when capturing handheld shots. From romantic candlelit dinners to the bright lights of the city at night, the COOLPIX S8100 ensures that no low-light moment will be left in the dark.
Creative Versatility
The COOLPIX S8100 helps unleash users’ photographic potential with enhanced shooting and editing functions, including a new Mode Dial conveniently placed next to the shutter-release button for quick and easy access to shooting modes. The COOLPIX S8100 also features a Creative Slider, which simplifies adjusting brightness, saturation and colour tone in-camera. Other in-camera editing functions include Quick Retouch and D-Lighting.
To further help the process of composing and sharing photos and movies, the COOLPIX S8100 boasts a 3.0-inch ultra high resolution (921,000-dot) Clear Colour Display with a wide viewing angle and anti-glare coating. Additional must-have features in the S8100 include 17 Scene Modes, including the Scene Auto Selector, which automatically recognizes the shooting situation and adjusts camera settings accordingly for great photos in any environment. For outstanding portraits, the S8100 features Nikon’s Smart Portrait System, which incorporates a series of automatic functions including In-Camera Red-Eye Fix™, improved Face-Priority AF, Blink Warning, Smile Timer and Skin Softening to flatter even the most camera-shy subject.
Key Features
- Sure shooting, even in challenging lighting situations
The COOLPIX S8100 enables you to capture beautiful handheld portraits at night. In Night Portrait mode, the camera first shoots a rapid sequence of exposures at shutter speeds fast enough to capture the background cleanly followed by an additional exposure using the flash to capture your subject. The exposures are then merged into a single composite image, producing a beautiful image of both your subject and the background. It achieves this by combining the image-stabilizing advantages of lens shift VR with the ability of its new backside Illumination CMOS image sensor to rapidly expose and merge a series of shots.
- Quick response and high-speed shooting
The COOLPIX S8100 keeps you ahead of the action with its ultra-fast start-up time, high-speed AF operation, and quick shot-to-shot turnaround. It also gives you the chance to shoot five consecutive images at a rapid 10 fps (approx.) at maximum size (4000 x 3000). Other high-speed options include Continuous Mode and the Pre-shooting Cache.
- Crafted for quality
Engineering to ensure imaging excellence and maximize creative freedom includes a precision 10x zoom, NIKKOR ED glass lens and Nikon's EXPEED C2 Image Processing Engine.
- Full HD movie recording with stereo sound
At the press of a button, you can record full 1080p HD movies with stereo sound, and use the 10x optical zoom throughout. While recording, save a still image at any time by pressing the shutter button. Also there's a built-in HDMI connector that enables output to your high-definition TV.
- Other features
7.5 cm (3-in.) high-resolution (921k-dot) Clear Color Display
12.1 effective megapixels
Creative Slider to edit images
Macro shooting from as close as 1 cm (0.4 in.)
USB charging via AC adapter (supplied) or PC
What's Included:
- Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL12
- Charging AC Adapter EH-68P/EH-68P(AR)
- USB Cable UC-E6
- Audio Video Cable EG-CP16
- Strap
- ViewNX 2 (CD-ROM)