Nikon COOLPIX S3000

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Nikon COOLPIX S3000

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Intro

The Nikon COOLPIX S3000 is a 12 Megapixel compact with a 4x optical zoom and 2.7in screen. Launched in February 2010 it supersedes the popular COOLPIX S220, adding 2 Megapixels to the resolution, a larger screen and extending the zoom generally at the big angle end of the stray.

The COOLPIX S3000 has fully self-locking photo with scene detective work besides as a selection of 16 scene modes. Unlike other budget COOLPIX models we've tested it provides selectable ISO sensitivity settings, but in that location's still no optical image stabilization, just Nikon's Lepton VR put up-processing and a movement detection option which boosts the ISO to render a quicker shutter stop number.

At only 19mm thin and weighing a mere 116g including the battery, the COOLPIX S3000 is slim, plumage-light and stylish. We proved it alongside compacts from Canon and Sony that not only look very correspondent, but are also a close pit in terms of specifications: the similarly-priced Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W310 and the slenderly Thomas More dear Canyon IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS.

The COOLPIX S3000 is available in a choice of six colors – black, champagne silver, red, blue, orange, magenta and light-green. We had the magenta model to review which is definitely the one and only to go bad for if you want to be detected. Like the Canon IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS and the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W310 the COOLPIX S3000, is slim and very stylish, but the moment you pick IT up you'll notice a big difference in the weight. At only if 116g including the battery the COOLPIX is substantially flatboat than either the Canon or Sony compacts.

Though it's light, it doesn't feel flimsy or insubstantial, though some of the controls are a young on the gnomish side. The COOLPIX S3000 is a soothing camera to curb either in one hand Oregon with both. The rear panel is moulded with a recessed control panel and a thumb residue bare is inset at the top.

On the bottom, the battery and SD card compartment is on the right side and the tripod bush is on the nigh box. A centrally located tripod bush would furnish a Thomas More level and stable climb orient, but, unless you plan to do a deal out of tripod-supported picture taking this isn't a major issue. The COOLPIX S3000 takes South Dakota cards but unlike its doesn't qoute compatibility with the latest SDXC high-speed high-electrical capacity versions.

The on-off switch is boot mounted along the top panel and is requires a very firm push to run, soh there's No chance of switching information technology on accidentally. The shutter release is a boastful silvery button that sits arrogant of the top panel surrounded by a zoom collar.

Below that a quaternion-way control disc is used for bill of fare navigation as well as providing one-touch access to swank, exposure recompense, close-centerin and self-timer cognitive operation. Above it are a shooting manner button and playback push and below it menu and erase buttons.

Similar most compacts, you prat turn the S3000 happening in playback manner by pressing the playback push button, only you'll need to keep it held down for a to the lowest degree a second before the television camera turns on, which prevents accidental activation. With the camera in playback mode half- pressing the shutter release switches to the currently put off shooting mode.

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The COOLPIX S3000's intrinsical flash unit has a quoted range of 4.5 Metres, which is rather grand, merely our test flash shot, which was within that range, looked a undersized on the unilluminated side. A pre-flash is fired for metering purposes and the time taken to recycle betwixt shots varied but generally was between 2 to 4 seconds. If you half-press the shutter before the flash has recharged the red loud-fit Light-emitting diode doesn't crystalise and you deman to release the shutter before trying once again. If you're in a hurry to get a shot this can Be a bit frustrating as you have to repeatedly knife at the shutter release until you obtain the red light and beep signal. Also, when you forward turn the camera on, if the shoot is necessary information technology takes a few spear carrier seconds to charge up.

The COOLPIX S3000's EN-EL10 Lithium-Ion battery provides enough power for 220 shots. The battery is recharged in the camera by conjunctive the supplied USB cable either to the mains via the supplied AC adaptor or directly to the USB port on a PC Beaver State Mac. This is pretty handy as it means if you're travelling with a laptop or netbook you Don't have to take the AC adaptor with you to charge the camera.

The COOLPIX S3000's 4x sense organ zoom has an equivalent range of 27-108mm. This is a cock-a-hoop improvement on the 3x zoom of its predecessor, the S220, especially American Samoa most of the special coverage comes at the wide angle close of the range where, in our view, it's of most practice.

Spell a 108mm telephoto isn't going to get you close to distant action connected the sports field or for wildlife photography, it's a good central length for portraits and will enable you to tightly fles subjects that would otherwise be lost in the middle of the frame. For landscapes and inside the 27mm wide angle, though not in the super-wide conference of cameras like the Canon IXUS 210 / SD3500 IS, bequeath get you bang-up panoramic landscape painting shots and allow you to fascinate elephantine group shots in shut-in spaces.

Nikon COOLPIX S3000 coverage extensive		Nikon COOLPIX S3000 reporting tele

4.9-19.6mm at 4.9mm (27mm equivalent)		4.9-19.6mm at 19.6mm (108mm equivalent)

When you turn the photographic camera on, the lense extends and the camera is ready to shoot in a little low three seconds – so the S3000 isn't precisely what you'd key out every bit organism hurried out of the blocks. The zoom rocker takes you from the initial wide-cut weight view to full telephotograph in about a second and a half. IT's not a very even-textured ride, though it is reasonably quick. When zooming from one ending of the range to the other the rive wanders so far that initially you can't see what you're look and information technology takes a fraction of a second for the autofocus to pull in things back into sharp relief. If you prod the rocker you can get it to step direct eighter separate stages.

The rapid climb indicator on the screen is divided into two sections indicating the optical and digital segments of the zoom range. Both segments are displayed whether the whole number zoom is activated or disabled which might seem extra, but information technology does at least remind you that the digital option is available should you need it.

The S3000's quoted closest focus distance in macro modal value is a disappointingly distant 8cm, compared with 3cm on the Canon IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS and 5cm on the Sony Cyber-shooting DSC-W310.

Nikon COOLPIX S3000 Electronic VR: VR inactive / Automatic

100% crop, 4.9-19.6mm at 19.6mm, 1/20, 400 ISO, Machine mode, VR off.		100% crop, 4.9-19.6mm at 19.6mm, 1/20, 400 ISO, Auto mode, VR Automatic.

The COOLPIX S3000 lacks optical or detector-teddy picture stabilisation, but it does have several methods for dealing with the personal effects of subject movement and camera handshaking at ho-hum shutter speeds The first of these is Motion Detective work which, in low light situations, operating room where significant camera or subject motion is detected, increases the ISO to enable the use of a faster shutter speed. Another method, Electronic Vibration Reduction, post-processes the image to try and reduce the blurring caused past camera shake.

In old tests on Nikon compacts, Motion Spying and Physical science VR haven't been very effective. The crops above are from shots taken with the COOLPIX S3000 with the lens set to its level bes focal distance of 19.6mm (108mm equivalent). Both images were shaft in Auto mode with the ISO predisposition set to auto; on the left, Motion Detection and Electronic VR were turned off and along the right both were ready to robotlike.

Though the Motion Sensing and Electronic VR icons were some displayed, Motion Spotting was not activated Eastern Samoa in both instances the same ISO and exposure settings were used – 1/20th of a ordinal at f5.9 and 400 ISO. Information technology's impossible to say with certainty whether the image on the right has had Lepton VR send processing applied, but information technology does demo much little evidence of camera tremble and is a marked improvement on the shot taken without it.

With hand held shots taken a slow shutter speeds on that point's always degree of risk involved. Sometimes you're able to hold the camera more steadily than others and the results, steady in shots taken at the same sentence in the same conditions with the same shutter speed can vary. Over a series of shots taken in low frivolous conditions both with Natural philosophy VR enabled and disabled, notwithstandin, the ones victimization Electronic VR were consistently better. But it remains no substitute for a true opthalmic or detector-shift solution.

If you are shot in low light and wish to maximise your chances of getting a television camera-shake-discharged lead, we'd recommend using the S3000's Best Guesswork Selector (BSS) feature, which takes awake to ten shots while the shutter is held downcast, then saves the sharpest unmatched.

The COOLPIX S3000 has an AF arrangement which automatically switches from nine-area to aspect sleuthing when a person comes into view. In low light an AF assist lamp located on the top left corner of the front panel illuminates. The autofocus plant fleetly and accurately in whol kinds of conditions including low light and usually gets a lock in symptomless under a second.

When faces are detected in the frame the S3000 locks focus happening them. The first boldness, happening which the focus is prioritized, is framed with a double yellow border and other faces, up to twelve in total, are framed with a single border. By and large the face detection performance is variable. In the right conditions – good light and people somewhat finale to the tv camera – it kit and caboodle considerably, but poor illumination, space to the subject, hats, and profile views all compromised its performance to varying degrees. You can always turn to it off in the menu system if you prefer. The AF area mode option provides strange options including central and manual focus – in which you choose from extraordinary of 99 concentrate regions inside the frame.

In default on autofocus mode the camera doesn't focus until you half-press the shutter release. Changing this to regular AF forces the tv camera to focus continually and lock the focus when the shutter tone ending is ironed, a efficacious alternative for sports picture taking operating theatre any other situation with constantly moving subjects.

The COOLPIX S3000's 2.7in screen out has 230 thousand pixels and provides a sensibly bright, contrasty and saturated eyeshot – as seven-day as you'Ra looking directly at IT. It has a very poor slant of watch particularly in the hierarchical plane. Tilt the camera more 20 degrees or indeed and the view deteriorates markedly. The side to side view is improved then if you're reviewing shots patc friends are looking over your berm it may non be such a problem. Corresponding that on the Sony Cyber-guess W310, the S3000's screen simply isn't busy the standard of that on the Canon IXUS 105 / SD1300 IS.

The COOLPIX S3000's fare system is nothing if not straightforward. Pressing the menu button in Motorcar shooting mode displays a two-tabbed system with a Shooting menu on one tab and a Set aweigh menu on the other. The Shooting card includes Image mode (size and quality), White Balance, Unceasing shooting options, ISO sensitivity, Colour options, AF area manner and Autofocus mode. The Coiffe up carte includes options for Motion Detection, Natural philosophy VR, Appendage Zoom, Format, Blink warning and Date settings.

In playback mode the Shooting menu is replaced with a Playback menu which offers D-lighting enhancement, Nimble retouch, Skin softening, Rotation, Resizing and Printing. On that point's besides a Slide Prove option which allows you to set ahead the slide duration, but there are no transition personal effects.

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While it's not hard to cart track things down in the COOLPIX menu system it would make up nice if there was a quicker choice for selecting commonly exploited settings like ISO sensitivity, Continuous shooting and AF modes.

In Motorcar mood the COOLPIX S3000 provides more control over exposure than other COOLPIX models we've reviewed in that it allows you to band the ISO sensitivity. There's still the option to have the camera set the ISO automatically, depending on the prevailing light conditions, but you can set it manually from 80 to 3200 and in that respect's also a unadjustable range Car option that limits the range from 80 to 400 ISO.

Auto mode doesn't employ scene recognition, for that at that place's Scene auto selector switch mode. This mechanically selects matchless of seven scene modes – Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Nighttime portrait, Night landscape, Close up and Backlight. In general use Scene Motorcar selector was pretty signal, quickly coming to a last about the prospect before it and selecting (most of the time) an appropriate mode. The only literary criticism we'd make is that it had a tendency to select Backlight mode for scenes that weren't particularly backlit, but just contained a lot of toss. To be fair though, this is a common failing of automobile scene spying modes on other compacts. It too occasionally mis-identified buildings atomic number 3 the great unwashe. Ok, that's cardinal criticisms.

On that point are sixteen conniption modes you can select manually, including the seven in use by Scene auto selector mode. The leftover ones are Sports, Political party/interior, Beach/snow, Sunset, Dusk/dawn, Food, Museum, Fireworks show, Copy and Panorama assist.

Smile shutters are becoming increasingly popular on compacts in this cost bracket – you either love them operating theatre ignore them. The COOLPIX S3000's Smart portraiture mode fires the shutter automatically when a smile is detected. Though it lacks the fine tuning options available on models care the Sony Cyber-barb DSC-W310, IT works all right in unspoiled reddened with subjects that are facing the camera.

Not much an exposure mode as an autofocus alternative, Issue Trailing locks focus happening an object and tracks it in the frame. It's lenient to use, you simply align the depicted object inside the square target in the middle of the systema skeletale and press the OK button. Your subject is then framed in yellow and followed if it or the camera moves. As long as IT moves smoothly and predictably this works pretty well. But fast and slightly erratic movements can cause it to hesitation and in one case the little yellow rectangle has slipped of your subject it rarely finds its way back, forcing you to manually re-target.

The COOLPIX S3000 can shoot television in one of ii modes. The default, known as 'TV', captures 640×480 pixels (common VGA resolution) and there's besides a 'small' 320×240 size, both recording at 30 frames per second. There's nobelium HD mode. The maximum perpetual recording time is 29 minutes surgery when the single file reaches 2GB, which leave happen in just terminated 20 minutes in the VGA mode. The optical zoom can't be used during recording, but a basic 2x digital zoom is available with the usual loss in quality. Cameras like the S3000 that exercise a CCD detector are prone to vertical streaking when shooting very brilliantly flaming and backlit scenes, so you'll need to spotter out for this. Movies are recorded at an average scra rate of 11Mbps and saved using a Motion JPEG codec in an AVI wrapper. Qualified members of Vimeo can download the original video file seen on the left Here.

In Continuous shooting mode the S3000 can shoot up to three frames at 0.9 frames per second. If you continue to withstand the shutter release downbound it leave proceed to shoot, but the rate slows freehanded an moderate rate over 30 seconds of 0.7 frames per second. Reduction the paradigm resolution didn't result in an gain in the frame rate. The S3000 has two additional multi-shot modes. Best Shot Selector shoots continuously for busy ten frames then selects and saves the sharpest same. Multi-shot 16 is quite a neat feature which shoots 16 images in continuous musical mode then arranges them in a single image on a 4×4 reference grid.

The COOLPIX S3000's 1/2.3in CCD sensor records images with a maximum declaration of 4000×3000 pixels. At this size, two compression options are available and the better quality way produces files of around 5MB in size. The ISO mountain chain of the sensor is 80 to 3200 ISO and the shutter speed cooking stove is 1 – 1/2000 with a 4 second option in the Fireworks Show aspect mode. The S3000 has 47MB of built-in memory – sufficient for just about 10 plangent-resolution pictures if you forget to put a card in.

To see how the quality of the COOLPIX S3000 measures-up in practice, take a look at our real-life resolution and high ISO noise results pages, browse the sample images gallery, or skip to the chase and head heterosexual person for our finding of fact.

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