Today the most popular and best selling photo cameras on the market are the digital point and shoot cameras. These are usually small, light and compact devices that have accessible prices and that can be easily used by most of the people, and not just by the professional photographers like it’s the case for the DSLR cameras. Some digital cameras are weaker and really cheap while others are more expensive, and also much better.




A good store where you can find all sorts of digital point and shoot cameras is the store (and site) Best Buy. If you will visit the “Digital cameras” category, you will see the cameras sorted on different criteria. You can choose one by brand, price range, features, megapixels, color and others. But the main categories are: Standard point & shoot cameras, sleek & slim point and shoot cameras, advanced point and shoot cameras, Digital SLR cameras and also packages (for example a package can consist of the digital camera, along with an included memory card, a bag and a tripod).

So now let’s make a short review on a digital camera, and for today we’ll choose a model made by the company Nikon. This company is famous for its DSLR cameras, but it also makes point and shoot cameras. And one of them is the Nikon – Coolpix S 8000 14.2 Megapixel Digital Camera – Black, Model: S 8000 Black | SKU: 9758674. This specific camera has a price of 300 dollars at Best Buy, and it is quite a really good one. You can tell this from its technical details, but also from the overall customer rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 (4.3 for value for price, 4.7 for picture quality, 4.4 for ease of use and also 4.5 for features). And speaking of features, here are the technical details for this camera:

-  Megapixels (Total) 14.48
-  Image Resolution Up to 4320 x 3240
-  Optical Zoom 10 x
-  Digital Zoom 4 x
-  Lens Features Zoom-NIKKOR ED glass lens
-  Lens Focal Length(s) 35 mm equivalent 30 – 300 mm
-  LCD Screen Size 3 ”
-  LCD Screen Features VGA Clear Color TFT-LCD with antireflection coating and brightness adjustment
-  Viewfinder LCD only
-  Image Stabilization Optical
-  Face Detection Yes
-  Burst Mode Yes
-  Panorama Mode Yes
-  Image Stitching Yes
-  Shots Available with Image Stitching Limited only by available memory
-  Internal Memory 32 MB
-  Compatible Memory Formats Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC)
-  Text Overlay Date and time
-  Shutter Speeds ISO 100, 200, 400: 1/2000 – 8 sec.; ISO 800: 1/2000 – 2 sec.; ISO Auto, 1600, 3200: 1/2000 – 1 sec.; Multishot: 1/2000 – 1/30 sec.; Fireworks: 4 sec.
-  Aperture Range f / 3.5 – f / 5.6
-  White Balance Auto, preset, daylight, incandescent, fluorescent, cloudy, flash
-  Flash Range 1.7 ‘ – 18 ‘ (wide); 2.9′ – 12′ (telephoto)
-  Flash Modes Auto, auto with red eye reduction, off, fill-in, slow sync
-  Orientation Sensor No
-  External Flash Mount No
-  Focus Range 1.7′ – infinity (wide); 3.3′ – infinity (telephoto); 0.4″ – infinity (macro)
-  Movie Mode Yes
-  ISO Equivalent Auto: 100 – 1600; full resolution: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200; fixed range auto: 100-400, 100-800

-  Self-Timer 10 sec. or 2 sec.
-  Interface USB 2.0
-  Camera Dock Not included
-  Video Outputs NTSC, PAL, HDMI
-  Audio Yes
-  File Formats DCF, Exif 2.2, DPOF, MOV, MPEG-4, AVC/H.264, AAC, stereo
-  Exposure Control Exposure compensation (± 2 EV in 1/3 steps)
-  Image Storage Capacity Varies
-  Batteries 1 lithium-ion
-  AC Adapter Yes
-  Digital Magnification 4 x
-  Imaging Sensor Type CCD
-  Imaging Sensor Size 1/2.3 ”
-  Time Lapse None
-  Tripod Mount  Yes
-  Touchscreen No
-  Software Included Coolpix Suite

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