COOLPIX P80 from Nikon

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Product Number: 26114

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Key Features

10.1 Megapixels for stunning prints as large as 20 x 30 inches. Plenty of sharp resolution to capture the finest details, crop creatively and produce incredible enlargements.

The World's Most Compact Super-telephoto Camera among competing models equipped with an 18x zoom as of March 4, 2008. This gives you the benefits of both a compact camera and a super-telephoto lens.

Incredible, Bright 2.7-inch High-Resolution LCD and an Electronic Viewfinder make it easy to compose and share your pictures with friends and family. The incorporation of the high-resolution electronic viewfinder enables you to see through the lens in any type of lighting condition.

Program, Shutter-Priority, Aperture-Priority and Manual Exposure Modes give you ultimate control over your pictures. The D-SLR-type mode dial on the top of the camera provides quick access to this greater personal and creative control. Now, you can adjust the camera's settings for any type of lighting conditions and get as creative as you want.

New Sports Continuous Scene Mode for shooting up to 13fps, up to 30 frames, when you set the resolution to 3MP or lower. These high-speed capture settings help you stay ahead of the action, whether it's a swift golf or baseball swing, or the speed of the soccer field. At 13fps, you'll capture all the action.

High Quality TV Movies with Sound are now just a press of a button away with your COOLPIX P80. Record TV-quality movies with sound whose duration is only limited by the space available on your SD/SDHC card. Connect your camera to your TV, and you have instant home movies.

Amazing 18x Optical Wide-Angle Zoom-NIKKOR Lens provides exceptional pictures. This lens is built on Nikon's proud heritage of producing precision camera optics that deliver superb color and razor-sharp results. This amazing lens offers unbeatable compositional freedom with its wide-angle (27mm) to super-telephoto coverage (486mm). You can photograph sweeping landscapes and zoom in to capture the action on the baseball or soccer field!

New EXPEED Image Processor ensures high-quality pictures with stunning color and sharpness. Nikon's comprehensive digital imaging processing concept incorporates the know-how and the technologies acquired throughout our long history of photographic and digital imaging development. EXPEED is customer-tuned for COOLPIX and renders natual-looking pictures of incredible quality and quick response so you won't miss that special moment.

Optical Vibration Reduction Image Stabilization compensates for camera shake to prevent blur and produce clearer, sharper results in lower light or unsteady conditions. In addition, the benefits of Nikon's VR system extends to faster framing on the monitor as well as smoother action when using the movie mode.

Auto Adjusts up to ISO 6400 and lets you keep shooting, even in lower light. With a light sensitivity range of up to ISO 6400 in manual control, this creates new opportunities to take sharper, more natural-looking photos in lower light conditions. ISO 3200 and ISO 6400 settings are available at 3MP or lower resolution.

Nikon Image Innovations include: In-Camera Red-Eye Fix™, that automatically looks for and fixes most instances of red-eye; Face Priority AF, Nikon's face-finding technology that can quickly find and focus on up to 12 faces in a group portrait; and D-Lighting which rescues pictures that are too dark for printing by enhancing the underexposed areas of the picture while not touching the properly exposed areas.

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Specifications

Type

Compact Digital Camera

Effective Pixels

10.1 million

Image Sensor

CCD

Sensor Size

1/2.33 in.

Total Pixels

10.7 million (approx.)

Lens Zoom

18x

Lens Specification

4.7-84.2mm (35mm [135] format picture angle: 27-486mm); f/2.8-4.5

Vibration Reduction

Image-sensor shift

Autofocus (AF)

Contrast-detect AF, Multi-area AF

Auto-area AF Mode

Yes

Focus Range

[W]: Approx. 1 ft. 4 in. (40 cm.) to infinity
[T]: Approx. 5 ft. (1.5 m.) to infinity
Macro close-up mode: [W]: Approx. 4 in. (10 cm.) to infinity
Macro close-up mode: [T]: Approx. 0.4 in. (1 cm.) to infinity

Focus Modes

Auto
Face-Priority AF

Focus Lock

Half press of shutter-release button (single-point AF in AF-S)

Maximum Autofocus Areas/Points

Single-point AF Mode

Yes

Viewfinder

0.24 in. TFT LCD, approx. 230,000 dot with diopter adjustment

Viewfinder Frame Coverage

Approx. 97%

Monitor Size

2.7 in. diagonal

Monitor Type

Wide Viewing Angle TFT-LCD

Monitor Resolution

230,000-dots

Storage Media

SD memory card
SDHC memory card
Not compatible with Multi Media Cards (MMC).

Internal Memory

Approx. 50MB

Storage System

JPEG: JPEG-baseline-compliant; can be selected from Size priority and Optimal quality
AVI
WAV

Storage File System

DCF 2.0
EXIF 2.21
DPOF compliant

Movie

Movie with sound
Time lapse movie

Voice Memo Function

Yes

Image Size (pixels)

2592 x 1944 (5M)
2048 x 1536 (3M)
1600 x 1200 (2M)
1280 x 960 (1M)
1024 x 768 (PC)
640 x 480 (TV)
3648 x 2432 (3:2)
3584 x 2016 (16:9)
2736 x 2736 (1:1)

ISO Sensitivity

ISO 64-6400
Auto (auto gain ISO 64-800)
Fixed range auto (ISO 100, 200, 400)
High ISO Sensitivity auto (ISO 64-1600)

Lowest ISO Sensitivity

Highest ISO Sensitivity

6400

Exposure Modes

Aperture-Priority Auto (A)
Auto
Manual (M)
Programmed Auto (P)
Scene
Shutter-Priority Auto (S)

Automatic Exposure Scene Modes

Yes

Scene Modes

Back Light
Beach/Snow
Close Up
Copy
Dusk/Dawn
Face-Priority AF
Fireworks Show
Landscape
Museum
Night Landscape
Night Portrait
Panorama Assist
Party
Portrait
Sports
Sunset
Voice Recording

In-Camera Image Editing

D-Lighting
Distortion Control
Small Picture

Exposure Compensation

± 2 EV in steps of 1/3

Exposure Lock

Yes

White Balance

Auto
Cloudy
Daylight
Flash
Fluorescent
Incandescent
White Balance Preset

Image Stabilization

Optical

Top Continuous Shooting Speed at full resolution

Up to 9 shots at approx. 1.1 frames per second

Self-timer

Electronically controlled timer with duration of 2 or 10 sec.

Built-in Flash

Yes

Built-in Flash Distance

28 ft (8.8m)

Flash Sync Modes

Slow sync
Red-eye reduction
Red-eye reduction with slow sync
Flash cancel/ flash off
Auto
Auto with red-eye reduction
Anytime flash

Interface

Hi-speed USB

Video Output

NTSC
PAL

Projector Playback Functions

Full frame
Thumbnail (4 or 9 or 16 segments)
Zoom
Slideshow
Sound playback

Battery

Rechargeable

Battery / Batteries

Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL5

Battery Life (shots per charge)

Nikon Rechargeable: 250 shots (CIPA)

Tripod Socket

¼-20

Approx. Dimensions

Height: 3.1in. (79.0mm)
Width: 4.3in. (110.0mm)
Depth: 3.1in. (78.0mm)
Excluding projections.

Approx. Weight

12.9 oz. (365.0g)

Supplied Accessories

Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL5
Battery Charger MH-61
USB Cable UC-E6
Audio Video Cable EG-CP14
Strap AN-CP18
Lens Cap LC-CP18
COOLPIX Software Suite CD-ROM

*Supplied accessories may differ depending on country or area.

**Specifications and equipment are subject to change without any notice or obligation on the part of the manufacturer.
***Refer to the product manual or the Compatible Lenses Specification for additional details.

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LC-CP18 Lens Cap$10.95

AN-CP18 Strap$10.95

AN-6W Nylon Wide Neck Strap (Wine)$50.00

EN-EL5 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery$32.95

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Industry Recognition

ABCNews.com

July 14, 2008, Nikon COOLPIX P80 | Ned Potter

ABCNews.com's Ned Potter called the Nikon COOLPIX P80 a megazoom digital camera perfect for those looking for big pictures with little hassle. Potter claimed that the P80 was designed to fill the void between standard point-and-shoot cameras and more complex D-SLR cameras. The P80 also comes equipped with Nikon's Vibration Reduction technology and D-Lighting which help address the effects of camera shake and bad lighting in photos. Potter later concluded that the COOLPIX P80's 18x zoom lens is a tremendously versatile lens capable of taking great photos.

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Supplied Accessories

Industry Recognition

ABCNews.com

Review

July 14, 2008, Nikon COOLPIX P80