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May 21, 2013

When shooting nighttime landscapes, use a low ISO (400 or below if possible) while working from a tripod. Open your aperture to F/4 or F/5.6. This will allow you to have a shot full of detail and of good quality. Remember that night shots need a subject, just like day shots.

May 20, 2013

Don’t forget to bring your camera to holiday barbeques so you can capture all of the fun. Take pictures of the food being grilled, games being played, as well as groupings of friends and family.

May 19, 2013

Wait until the camera has finished writing the photo(s) to the memory card (green light is off) before turning off the camera or removing the card. You can lose pictures if you do either before the camera has had time to download the file(s) from its internal memory to the card.

May 18, 2013

You should format the memory card in your camera on a regular basis. By using the camera’s built-in “Format” function, found in the menus, you lessen the chance of having card problems in the future. Doing so is better than just deleting the images using the camera or the computer.

May 17, 2013

When you’re at a parade take photos of the parade goers, especially your children and the looks on their faces. You’ll see a lot of smiles and excitement.

May 16, 2013

Take a self-portrait each day for a week or month (or a year). It’s harder than you think to take an attractive photo of yourself, and if you do it for long enough you’ll have an interesting series that shows how you’ve changed over time.

May 15, 2013

Everyone loves a parade. For more interesting photos, look for details like the band’s uniforms, a cheerleader’s colorful pom-poms or a bright red fire engine.

May 14, 2013

When shooting groups of five or more people, make sure you stagger them. Put tall folks in the back and the shortest ones in front. It may seem simple, but blocking out just one face can ruin a group portrait. Always tell them, “If you don’t have a clear view of me, the camera can’t see you.”

May 13, 2013

Posing a bride and groom for photos is sometimes difficult. Concentrate on close shots of just the two of them, with clean backgrounds. Then create a fun group shot having them in the center, with others gathered around them. Just make sure no one gets in front of them. After all, it’s their day.

May 12, 2013

Take plenty of photos during your Mother’s Day celebrations. Remember to print multiple copies, so everyone can have their own photographs of mom to cherish.

May 11, 2013

Use a polarizing filter to lessen or eliminate reflections from glass. This works really well on windows of stores or cars. But the trade-off is that your exposure will be a bit longer, as the light is cut down by almost two stops.

May 10, 2013

Capture the hustle and bustle of the city at night. Place your camera on a tripod and use a long exposure (slow shutter speed) to blur the movement of cars and people. Try shooting for about 10 seconds first, and then adjust creatively to catch the motion of the lights and the feel of the city.

May 9, 2013

Make a great team picture. Get the team together in front of a nice background—maybe the goal, the net or the team logo on the field or floor. Shoot the ordinary, and then let the kids have some fun, making faces or funny poses. That’s the one they will always remember.

May 8, 2013

Try shooting panoramas if you’re at a sport stadium, beach or park, for more interesting images. Some Nikon Digital Cameras have an Easy Panorama mode or a Panorama Assist mode, which make these photos easy to shoot.

May 7, 2013

When photographing animals of any kind—pets, birds in flight, animals at the zoo—try to zoom in as close as you can or use a longer lens to isolate the animal from its background. By getting a close-up view you have a greater chance of capturing a wonderful expression on the face of the animal, which will give you a more interesting photograph.

May 6, 2013

Want a unique video of sports action? Use the slow-motion mode that many Nikon digital cameras offer. By shooting the action faster than normal and played back at normal speed, your subject’s movements are slowed down and look more deliberate.

May 5, 2013

When celebrating Cinco de Mayo, take plenty of photos of the colorful decorations in addition to candid photos of everyone having a great time.

May 4, 2013

Change your white balance during a sunrise or sunset. Take your camera off auto white balance and switch to Cloudy or Shady white balance. This will add more strength to the reds, oranges and yellows. Auto White Balance tries to keep colors neutral.

May 3, 2013

To get a shot of someone at sunset, turn on your flash and place the person with the beautiful sunset behind them. With the flash on, they will be illuminated. With the flash off, they will be silhouetted.

May 2, 2013

Spend a day capturing images only in black and white. You have to look at the world differently to take a good-looking photo in black and white, and that will help sharpen your artistic skills.

May 1, 2013

May is National Photo Month! Celebrate by taking photos every day. Give yourself an assignment such as taking a self-portrait each day of the month, or photographing an object every day.

April 30, 2013

If your camera can capture images in both RAW and JPEG format, do so even if you don’t work with RAW images now. These RAW files have the highest image quality possible, so you can edit them years from now and be sure you’re getting the best looking image possible.

April 29, 2013

Set your Speedlight to Rear Curtain Sync. This fires the flash at the end of the exposure, not the beginning, and can create interesting streaks and effects in moving subjects. Experiment with the different flash modes your camera and Speedlight offers.

April 28, 2013

Pick a day and use a fixed focal length lens instead of a zoom (or only one focal length on your zoom, like 35mm). By practicing moving you and the camera to re-frame your images you’ll become more engaged with your subject.

April 27, 2013

If you are photographing out of the window of a plane be sure to keep from touching the window, walls, armrests or other parts of the plane. The vibrations caused by the engines are transmitted through the fuselage and can make your photos blurry. Instead, sit up in the seat and hold the camera as still as you can, close to the window.

April 26, 2013

Arbor Day, which celebrates the planting and caring for trees is celebrated across the USA at different times of the year. Some states celebrate in February while others celebrate the holiday in April, so we decided to celebrate it twice! Use this holiday to take some cool photographs of trees.

April 25, 2013

Frame your storm photograph before it happens. Remember that the sky is your subject, so dramatic clouds are what you’re framing for, and then you hope that lightning will happen in that space. Keep the horizon in the lower third of the frame with the sky the top two-thirds.

April 24, 2013

Shooting a lightning storm can be exciting. Use a tripod and set you camera to record a long exposure. With D-SLRs, 15 seconds is a good start, but you may have to use up to 30 seconds, or bulb setting (where the shutter stays open as long as you hold down the shutter button). Because you never know when the lightning will occur, keep shooting for best results. And don’t forget the tripod! Otherwise you’ll have blurry photos.

April 23, 2013

Try different kinds of framing with your flower shots. Instead of centering the flower, try placing it off to the left or the right of the frame. This will allow for you to be creative with the negative space (areas without the subject). Look for the patterns of other out of focus flowers in the background.

April 22, 2013

Celebrate Earth Day by taking photographs of nature, or of Earth Day Events in your neighborhood.

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Key Features

10.0 Megapixels for stunning prints as large as 16 x 20 inches. Sharp resolution captures the finest details, crop creatively and produce incredible enlargements.

New EXPEED Image Processing ensures high-quality pictures with stunning color and sharpness. Nikon’s comprehensive digital imaging processing concept incorporates the know-how and technologies accumulated throughout our long history of photographic and digital imaging development. EXPEED is custom-tuned for COOLPIX. Applied optimized technologies render natural-looking pictures of incredible quality and quick response so you won’t miss that special moment.

New, Amazing, Bright 3.5-inch High Resolution TOUCH PANEL LCD offers 160º Wide-Angle of Views enabling easy access to all the camera controls without the conventional buttons to push. The anti-reflection coating applied to the touch panel enhances viewing even in bright light.

New Touch Autofocus and Auto Exposure lets you touch the subject on the 3.5” screen that you want to focus on and the camera automatically sets the focus, exposure and tracks the subject ensuring sharp focus and optimal exposure.

New HD Pictmotion Slide Shows lets you create slide shows with your music for play back on the camera, your HD LCD or plasma television.

Scene Auto Selector automatically recognizes the scene in your picture and adjusts the camera setting. Just set the camera to the Scene Auto Selector and the camera changes the settings according to the scene you are taking a picture of, automatically!

Auto adjusts up to ISO 3200 that lets you keep shooting, even in low light creating new opportunities to take sharper, more natural-looking photos in low light conditions.

17 Scene Modes for optimized shooting in various settings. Choose from: Handwritten Memo, Food, Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night Portrait, Party/Indoor, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/Dawn, Night Landscape, Close-up, Panorama Assist, Museum, Fireworks Show, Copy or Back Light modes. Match your current shooting situation with one of these Scene Modes and the camera will make the necessary adjustments giving you an incredible picture, automatically.

5x Optical Zoom-NIKKOR Glass Lens NIKKOR optics provide exceptional pictures. NIKKOR lenses are built on a proud heritage of producing precision camera optics that delivers superb color and razor-sharp results.

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

Customizable Touch Panel Display enables easy operation with a choice of three different Home displays, and you can even write a personal message on your photos with the included stylus. Conventional buttons, with the exception of the on/off switch and the shutter release, are all accessed via the touch panel making it easier than ever to access all the camera controls.

New Retouch Function allows you to paint a frame, add hand written memos in 5 different pen colors and thicknesses, attach stamps to a picture and so much more. The camera saves the painted picture and will also retain the original untouched picture.

Slim, Stylish, Metal All-New Wave Surface Design has a high brightness metallic coating that retains a beautiful pearl-like finish. The sleek design fits easily into any pocket or purse.

Smile Shutter and Blink Warning makes sure you’ll always catch the decisive moment when your subject smiles. Blink warning will let you know when your subject’s eyes are closed so you can retake your picture.

Nikon Image Innovations include: In-Camera Red-Eye Fix™, which will automatically look for and fix most instances of red-eye. You may never see red-eyes again! Face Priority AF is Nikon’s face-finding technology that quickly finds and focuses on up to 12 faces in a group portrait. D-Lighting will rescue those photos that are too dark for printing by enhancing the underexposed areas of the picture while not touching the properly exposed areas.

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

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Specifications

Type

Compact Digital Camera

Effective Pixels

10.0 million

Image Sensor

CCD

Sensor Size

1/2.3 in.

Total Pixels

10.34 million (approx.)

Lens Zoom

Lens Specification

5.9-29.5mm (35mm [135] format picture angle: 33-165mm); f/3.8-4.8; 12 elements in 10 groups

Vibration Reduction

Image-sensor shift

Focus Range

[W]: Approx. 2 ft. (60 cm.) to infinity
[T]: Approx. 3 ft. 3.4 in. (1 m.) to infinity
Macro close-up mode: Approx. 3.6 in. (9 cm.) to infinity

Focus Lock

Yes

Viewfinder

LCD

Monitor Size

3.5 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. 20MB

Movie

Movie with sound

Image Size (pixels)

3648 x 2736 (10M)
2592 x 1944 (5M)
2048 x 1536 (3M)
1024 x 768 (PC)
640 x 480 (TV)
3584 x 2016 (16:9)

ISO Sensitivity

ISO 64-3200
Auto (auto gain ISO 64-800)
High ISO Sensitivity auto (ISO 64-1600)

Lowest ISO Sensitivity

Highest ISO Sensitivity

3200

Image Stabilization

Optical

Top Continuous Shooting Speed at full resolution

Up to 7 shots at approx. 1.2 frames per second

Interface

Hi-speed USB

Battery

Rechargeable

Battery / Batteries

Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL10

Battery Life (shots per charge)

Nikon Rechargeable: 140 shots (CIPA)

Approx. Dimensions (Width x Height x Depth)

3.8 in. (97.5 mm) x 2.4 in. (60.0 mm) x 0.9 in. (22.0 mm)

Excluding projections.

Approx. Weight

5.1 oz. (145.0 g)

Supplied Accessories

Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL10
Battery Charger MH-63
USB Cable UC-E13
Audio Video Cable EG-CP15
Strap AN-CP14
Stylus
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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EH-63 AC Adapter$27.95

ViewNX 2

MH-63 Battery Charger$27.95

EN-EL10 Rechargeable Battery$30.95

COOLPIX Vertical Black Leather CaseArchived

UC-E13 USB Cable$16.50

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COOLPIX S60 2.6 5 5 5

This camera is a good for beginner. I know this camera is a little old but it takes great pictures during day & night. August 8, 2010

Amazing macro mode ... BAD video . I got this camera Christmas 08 . I asked my parents for it since it looks so sleek&has a touchscreen . I still really like it but here's a few pros&cons : PRO : beautiful looking . Gorgeous outside pictures . Macro mode [ focus ] which helps takes really nice nature pictures . rechargeable [no batteries] . you can draw on the pictures&add stamps . It has a few different effects [ B&W , sepia ect. ] . Pretty good for taking portraits of people . Zoom . Self timer . different flash modes . you can customize the home page . Comes in many different colors [ i have the red one ] . Comes with a wrist strap . Has SO many picture settings [ fireworks , nighttime , sunset , landscape ect.] CON : VERY VERYYYY grainy videos inside . not very good pictures inside . Freezes a lot . you have to get used to the touchscreen . Overall i really like this camera . But it's because of the V E R Y grainy videos inside that i gave it not a very good score . February 21, 2011

okay I've had this camera for about 2 years now. I was so excited when I first got it thinking that it was going to be a step up from my previous camera. I have to say, though, I am very impressed with the photo quality when taking pictures outside in natural lighting; great color and pretty sharp. However, when taking pictures indoors or at night, the photo quality is terrible. If you take pictures indoors without the flash, the pictures turn somewhat orange. I have tried all the settings to try to fix this but it just keeps happening. Also, the ISO isnt so great either, pictures turn very grainy when it's dark. And one more thing, the video quality is very bad as well. The sound quality for videos is very cloudy and off and the video can get fuzzy and may also turn orange if you use it indoors. My first camera was a nikon but it broke after about 3 years. Then I switched to another brand camera but that one broke a year later. I've put up with this camera for 2 years and I am definitely going to switch to another camera brand. December 30, 2010

worked great at first I got my s60 christmas of 08. It was amazing love the quality of pictures day and night. I always took good care of my camera i even named it camy this is how happy i was with it i kept it in a special camera bag never till this day have i dropped or damaged it. But as time went by the quality got worst and worst and worst i hate it. This is so disapointing because i know i never dropped it or anything so i dont know why it has horrible quality now. February 11, 2011

Absolutely Awful! Worst experience of my life!! I've had to get this camera replaced 4 TIMES! That is absolutely RIDICULOUS! Don't get me wrong... the picture quality is amazing but I kid you not, you drop it ONCE and it's DONE. accidents happen and let me tell you its impossible to keep this camera working. I dropped it in a case and it still broke. I'm upset I spent Sooo much money on a camera I expected to be amazing.. and obviously it WAS NOT. SAVE YOUR MONEY and YOUR SANITY. Go buy a sony or anything else. Just to show you what happens.. here is one of my photos.. tell me how this happens... notice the lines and lack of color... my flash was on. November 18, 2011

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I've lost the CD Nikon Transfer for my Coolpix s60. can I download from this site?

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You can download ViewNX2 which has Transfer combined in it from the Nikon web here - http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/61

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My camera dosnt register that it has a full battery

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When I put a charged battery and turn on the camera it says "battery exhausted" and turns itself off. I have bought new batteries and diffrent chargers and still have this problem. whats going on?

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You will need to send your camera for service in order to be evaluated by one of our technicians.
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I am having problems getting good photos. I have the flash off but it still flashes a little and shows up in my photo. I can not replicate the same picture that I see on the screen when I snap the photo.

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Tap the flash mode control and select the desire option. Please see page # 30 of the user's manual for the COOLPIX S60.

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viewfinder is blurry

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There is a red icon flashing and viewfinder is blurry

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Would the EH-63 AC Adapter charge my camera battery for the coolplix S60? Or would it just power the camera for only as long as I have it plugged in? I have lost both the MH-63 Battery Charger, and the power cable for it. Does the power cable come with the battery charger? Either way, which one would be better to charge my camera?

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The EH-63 AC Adapter will supply you camera with power constantly (won't charged your battery, since it uses a dummy battery that goes inside the camera). In order to charge your battery you will need the MH-63 charger.

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