Nikon Coolpix S70 Ratings,Reviews and Owners Manual
November 3rd, 2009 • Filed Under•79 views
Nikon’s sleek, sexy Coolpix S70 combines 12.1 effective megapixels and 5x wide-angle zoom with a beautiful, bright 3.5-inch Clear Color High-Resolution Organic LED touch-panel display that makes taking and sharing pictures easy.
Index of Nikon Coolpix S70 Expert Reviews
- DPInterface—”The Nikon Coolpix S70 is a capable touchscreen camera which deserves my recommendation. It excels at shooting outdoors and in bright light, has a basket of neat features and takes good quality photos. Consider the Coolpix S70 if you’re looking for a point-and-shoot compact with a ‘cool’ touchscreen (how can multi-touch be uncool?!), but back away if you plan to shoot in low-light or moving subjects often.”
- Ken Rockwell—”The best thing about the S70 is how it looks when it’s turned off. It’s much more handsome than Canon’s Powershots, which seem styled mostly to appeal to Japanese junior-high-school girls.”
- cnet—”The good: Zippy, well executed touch-screen interface; great tap-and-shoot feature; attention-getting design. The bad: Leisurely performance; battery charging done in camera might bother some; tricky to hold. The bottom line: The Nikon Coolpix S70 has a top-notch touch-screen interface and eye-catching design, but you’re definitely paying for them.”
- PhotographyBlog—”The Nikon Coolpix S70 is a well-built but controversial little snapper. As a digital compact camera, it is average – it has some nice functions, such as the Touch Shutter feature that lets you focus on your subject and take a picture very quickly; but enthusiast photographers will likely bemoan the limited level of user control over the picture taking process as well the lack of a pre- or post-capture histogram to check exposure.”
- DigitalCameraReview—”There are plenty of features we liked about the Nikon S70, including the Touch Shutter, 720p HD video capture, great image sharpness, compact and sleek design, and power conserving OLED with great functionality any lighting condition. But these positives just don’t outweigh some of its issues, like lack of manual control, price tag, over-exposed images, and a somewhat unreliable touch screen that isn’t supplemented with physical buttons.”
- cameras.co.uk—”The Nikon Coolpix S70 is likely to appeal to the gadget conscious with its touch screen control. In the main picture quality is good enough for snapshot quality, but I did find a tendency for sharpness to fall away when shooting subjects from distance.”
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Michael L. Andrews (Plano, Tx USA) on 3 November 2009:
I love everything about this camera, except…. it takes a terrible picture.
The good:
The form factor is great
I like the way you slide the cover to open the lens and turn the camera on. Makes turning on fast and easy.
The touch screen is great. Very easy to change settings. Screen is responsive. You can touch where you want to focus, which is really cool.
The ability to shoot in 16:9 ratio is nice, but you’re limited to 8MP in that mode.
The Bad
This camera just wouldn’t take a good picture. Outside in daylight I could get a pretty good photo, but anything indoors was poor at best. Even indoors during the day when there’s decent light. After taking my first set of shots I assumed I must be doing something wrong, so I read the manual, tried all the different “scenes”, I tried adjusting ISO, resolution, etc.
Granted, I’m a fairly novice user, so perhaps a more experienced pro could get a better picture out of this camera. I finally pulled out my old Canon SD200 3.2MP camera that I was looking to replace. I took many photos side by side. I never took the Canon off “auto” mode and I tweaked the Nikon a million ways. Virtually every time the Canon was sharper, and more color accurate.
So, I thouht maybe I got a bad camera. I went to Best Buy and tried their display model. You could see on the camera screen that the images just weren’t that great. Maybe if I didn’t have a side by side comparison it wouldn’t have been so noticable, but I really expected this Nikon to be better than my very old Canon.
If anyone believes it’s the operator and not the camera I’m more than open to advice, because I loved everything else about this camera. I did return it, but would buy it again if I found out it was just operator error, however, I really don’t think it was my error.
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James Beverly (Corinth, Mississippi) on 3 November 2009:
The new S70 lives up to all of the Nikon claims. Like most Nikon cameras I have owned, it functioned perfectly right out of the box. Having been highly disappointed with the previous S60, this new S70 seems to have corrected all of the shortcomings of the S60 and much more. The new OLED touch screen is a joy to use – sensitive and responsive. The screen visibility and clarity is excellent under all lighting conditions. Nikon also substituted a more robust battery which in combination with the OLED panel should extend camera use between charges.
Perhaps more important is the clarity and sharpness of the images taken with the S70. They are impressively sharp and clear under magnification. The menus are intuitive and easy to navigate. The touch screen focus and shutter release function is a nice touch. The simplified and enhanced in-camera cropping and retouch functions are well done and welcome additions. The Easy Auto mode handles very well all of the major camera settings and functions required for a good picture when a quick “point & shoot” situation arises. I would have preferred however an out-of-camera battery recharging system as I usually charge and carry a spare battery. I will be purchasing an external charger.
I have owned Nikon film and digital cameras for the last 25 years and I consider my new S70 to be a very worthwhile addition. It is stylish, functional, fun to use, and takes great photos. When you need a high quality pocket sized camera, you should take a close look at this one. I would highly recommend the S70.
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