Nikon Coolpix S610 and S610 with WiFi

published : Friday, August 08, 2008 | model : NIKON Coolpix S610

Theme : Digital Photography | Compact digital camera

These two twin cameras offer real 28mm wide angle optical zoom with a slim body.

Nikon COOLPIX S610 Digital Camera

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Nikon S610 : real wide angle
The Coolpix S610 will offer a much wider angle of view than has to offer the Coolpix S560. The Nikkor Zoom used here is a 28-112mm : nice for landscape and also perfect for portrait. This 10 megapixel camera is also optically stabilised thank to Nikon's optical VR system.

Smart
As Panasonic's intelligent Auto modes, Nikon now dives in technologies that enhance the photos without asking efforts to the photographer. So, here also, with the S610 and S610C, Nikon implements the scene detection : the camera analyses the situation and sets to the best mode between portrait, landscape, macro.... Red eye in camera removal is also available as well as face recognition and not only face detection with a mode where the shutter is conditioned to the smile detection just like what Sony launched a year ago. But the S610 is also able to track a subject thank to its new autofocus and to recognise a subject that you want focused. The system even may wait when your subject is out of the frame and refocus on it as soon as it get back into the frame. That is smart.

Nikon Coolpix S610C : with WiFi
There is also a WiFi version : the Coolpix S610C. It's wireless capabilities will not be used to download your pictures from the memory card to your computer without USB cable, but rather to upload your photos on Nikon's new server MyPictureTown which allows you to use 2 GB of storage space when you are on the go thanks to WiFi hotspots networks. This new service lets you share and organise your photos with albums and key words but also create musical slideshows.

Main features of the Nikon Coolpix S610 and S610C
- 10 megapixels - Optical VR - 4x optical Zoom (28-112mm) - 3" screen - 230 000 pixels - Face recognition - AF tracking - WiFi capabilities (S610 C only)