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Nikon Coolpix L20 10MP Digital Camera with 3.6 Optical Zoom and 3 inch LCD Deep Red specifications:

Nikon Coolpix L20 10MP Digital Camera with 3.6 Optical Zoom and 3 inch LCD (Deep Red) Description:
Capture and share your beloved memories with Nikon&rsquo,s new Coolpix L20 and its 10.0 efficient megapixels, 3.6x zoom and a bright, high resolution 3.0 inch LCD screen. Motion Detection automatically detects subject motion and changes the shutter speed and ISO to reimburse for camera shake and minimize image blur. The camera&rsquo,s Easy Auto Mode with Scene Auto Selector simplifies your picture taking experience by letting camera automatically choose the best setting to get great pictures. Nikon&rsquo,s Smart Portrait System combines four different technologies that will fix red eye, detect faces, fire the shutter when your subject smiles and warn you if they blink, to get you great portraits.

Coolpix L20 Highlights

10.0 megapixel resolution for stunning prints as big as 16 x 20 inches

3.6x optical Zoom Nikkor glass lens gets you close to the action

Huge, bright 3.0 inch high resolution LCD makes it simple to view and share pictures

Motion Detection automatically controls shutter speed and ISO settings to reimburse for camera shake and subject motion

Adjusts up to ISO 1600 to keep shooting in lower light

Easy Auto Mode with Scene Auto Selector simplifies your picture taking experience by letting the camera automatically choose the best setting to get great pictures

Nikon&rsquo,s Smart Portrait System: In Camera Red Eye Fix automatically fixes most cases of red eye in the camera. You may never see red eye again improved Face Priority AF Nikon&rsquo,s face finding technology that automatically concentrates on up to twelve faces Smile Mode automatically releases the shutter when your subject smiles Blink Warning displays a warning message, should the camera detect your subject blinked D Lighting rescues black or backlit pictures by improving light and detail where needed

Nikon Coolpix L20 10MP Digital Camera with 3.6 Optical Zoom and 3 inch LCD (Deep Red) Reviews:

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223 of 229 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of five stars
Excellent features, price and quality photographs!,
May 15, 2009

By&nbsp,Savvy buyer “Andi B” Washington, NJ United States See all my reviews

I newly buy the Nikon Coolpix L20 after lots of shopping.

I used only Olympus cameras only up to now.

This time I wanted a smaller pocket sized camera, that still took the AA batteries, and that still gave great photos with all the features I has been used to.

This camera fit the bill!

It takes two AA batteries, inexpensive SD memory cards and still still delivers great photos.

I have already tried all the features, and was completly happy.

I love using the different scene settings, and couldn’t live without the video feature.

Both still and video catch worked well in both bright light and low light.

The sound playback via the camera is hard to distinquish live music, but good once uploaded.

I did not really require the smile feature, but tried it out on my three year old, and was blown away..it really works!

The blink feature is quite ingenious. The camera really asks you if your subject blinked when they do, but not when they do not. This is especially useful when taking photos of kids. I could loved this feature when I was still my daughter’s yearbook photographer.

What can I fabulous price and awesome quality!!!

Definately worth the money.

Comparibly priced camera’s that we used, produce grainy shots…But haven’t found this with this camera at all.

I could recommend this camera to anyone!

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295 of 314 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of five stars
Unless you need a really long lens telephoto and billboard sized prints, this is the ideal camera for each use,
April 9, 2009

By&nbsp,C. Scanlon “least useful reviewer” among us humans See all my reviews
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This is a professional camera able of very clear prints respectable of publication or gallery display, up to 16×20.

And it’s very inexpensive for a camera of such value.

Ok, so its 3.6 optical zoom will not pick sand off an eagle’s beak at a thousand yards. Okay, so it will not blow up to billboard size without loss of meaning. In the real world but and everyday use this is a good and professional level camera that will do a far better job than you projected. Better than a cell phone.

Disguised as a point and shoot. That is what makes it effective, people aren’t intimidated by it. You may be able to get right up to them, and it seems like any other camera. Still, it’s more.

In fact, the generous three inch LCD screen means you don’t have to hold it to your face. There’s no optical viewfinder in any way. So you may be able to hold it at your hip and glance down at it to compose, and snap shots while engaging the subject in small talk comfortably. I have done this effectively with Tarahumara Indian kids in northern Chihuahua who usually run quickly from any camera. It works, and came out great. And that big LCD screen has a high contrast, anti reflection covering which keeps it clear in strong sunlight.

This camera is an improvement over the earlier, great Coolpix, like the great eight megapix Nikon Coolpix L18 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom Ruby Red primarily because it has ten megapix capability. The earlier accessories like the AC adapter, the Nikon EH 65A AC Adapter, are transferable if you have a long shoot to do in one place like a schoolful of kids, which I have done or another reason to go off battery. Still, a pair of Energizer e&lt,sup>2&lt,/sup> “AA” Lithium Batteries For digital cameras, movable audio players, and more last in here last forever.

Your old Coolpix camera pouch also still fits, use it and protect your investment. I like the Rokinon Compact Digital Camera Padded Carrying Case for Canon Powershot, Casio Exilim, Fuji Finepix, GE General Electric, Kodak EasyShare, Nikon Coolpix, Olympus FE Stylus, Panasonic Lumix, Pentax Optio, Sony CyberShot and Samsung Digital Cameras.

Also new here, on the side from the greater megapixels, is the new Expeed image processing system specially fine tuned for the Coolpix series “to render natural looking pictures of unbelievable quality and fast response” as if the earlier system of digital processing wasn’t good enough! Amateur fans will find their photos reaching a new magnitude of quality, the professional will leave his camera bag and lenses at home okay, so she may miss her long lens, but macro here gets in to two inches.

The ISO settings are phenomenal, stretching from 64 ISO all the way out to 1600. Over twenty years ago when I doed photo journalism in Nicaragua, we used 64 for our slide film and 1600 was just coming on the horizon, grainy but with a special charm for low light situations, like oil lamp, etc. Here you may be able to do low light and candlelight if you don’t mind many grain effect, and in fact there are special pre sets which employ the faster ISO’s effectively.

This is another expansion over the previous Coolpix L series. You may be able to decide instead of Auto with own its user selected options to use the pre set “Scene” selections quickly and proficiently. The Scene modes now include: Portrait, Night Portrait, Sports, Landscape, Party, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Museum, Fireworks Show, Close Up, Copy, Back Light, Panorama help, Food. Food is one of the new ones, and you food photo journalists may want to attempt it inexpensively still quite well here. The rest of the modes you may be able to figure how they’re set from the title and how you may apply their settings to alike situations, know that the Nikon impression of party may be more sedate and candle lit than the Animal House idea. This isn’t cheating, to use pre sets, this is using the tool you have in the way it was intended. Cheating could be setting this to its auto scene setting in which it selects the Scene mode according to

Prevailing conditions, automatically. Yes, this can do it.

The panorama help is great. You may be able to take a series of photos in a row in either of four directions left to right, up and down, etc. Overlapping by one 3rd I really appreciate the rule of thirds grid which you may be able to bring up on the LCD, keeping the camera straight and composed, , then join them with the included software into one long or tall file. I had reason to do this the other day at a long new school. Things don’t build vertical out here in the desert, but there’s lots of room for horizontal, and a special Cinerama style long photo framing. In fact you could line your whole town along the sidewalk standing and take one long photo of everyone in town. Just find printer and paper!

With the fitted macro mode you may be able to jump right into that cactus blossom from two inches away and have perfect concentrate. Take a photo of that baby’s toes and blow them up to 16×20. Come in close to that ant stealing cracker crumbs on your picnic. This strength of macro was newly unimaginable, and still here you have the power inside a humble, tiny and inexpensive package.

What I really love and appreciate is the SDHC compliancy. I can use as standard memory card a regular Sandisk 4GB Secure Digital SD HC Memory Card SDSDB 4096, BULK, No Reader and have room for 500 shots at maximum resolution. You may be able to really, as we used to say a quarter century ago “shoot a roll, keep a shot.” Take all of the shots you may be able to, , then pick one out to use and delete the rest. For someone who used to burn through boxes of film at 36 shots each max , then do the darkroom processing all night, , then find a free way to get more, this is like living in another, better dimension. Of course, you may be able to put bigger SD HC memory cards in here and if you ever do fill one up and have nothing more to put in there and no time to delete, this camera comes with a generous 20MB interior memory on hand.

You can hook it up to the USB port of a computer directly and use the included software, or simply pop out the SD card and plug it into a reader and into the computer. Whatever works for you, though I don’t like opening and closing the battery/card hatch too much. It’s strong and lasting, but in the olden days I had a habit of snapping such things and putting them back with channel tape. This one looks remarkably resilient still and has stood up to me.

Speaking of shooting a roll to get the one picture, have you ever taken a shot to discover your subject blinked? This camera allows you to know. Yes, this camera sees when your subject blinks, and allows you to know, using the Smart Portrait system. It also automatically fixes your red eye special. You will never see red eye again. It finds faces, and automatically concentrates on them, up to a dozen at a time. It may also snap the shutter automatically when someone dares to smile. And the D lighting will save those details otherwise lost in darkness.

As you may be able to see, this camera does everything for you but serve as photo agency selling your work to Vogue or GQ. A great camera at a small price. What can go wrong?

The most amazing thing for me, of course, an old still shooter, is that this tiny camera is a video camera, with fitted mike, and a fitted speaker for playback. You may be able to make movies with this at two different resolutions, either for TV playback at 640×480 or laptop at 320×240 good for e mailing. These home movies are really sharp, with the same excellent back to front concentrate as the photos, and amazingly high quality sound. The length of the movie is restricted only to the size of your SDHC card, you could go for feature length! Using .AVI files, it can be edited also.

Of course, this camera comes with the standard sized screw input for mounting on a tripod. I used it on my Targus 66 inch heavy duty tripod. Looks a little small up there, but it works great. You’ll really appreciate the steadiness a tripod generally brings, and the freedom, no less with this great camera, which so considerately has a tripod screw in.

Hey, for the same price, this is way better than a cell phone!

Too bad this one is well, red!

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180 of 193 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of five stars
Decent Starter Camera,
June 5, 2009

By&nbsp,Jerry D. Finley Asheville, NC See all my reviews
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