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Nikon Coolpix S70 reviews
You can find here the most interesting reviews / ratings from the well-known expert sites about the Nikon Coolpix S70 Camera. Here are the reviewers:
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- 15 March 2010 - |
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- 0 |
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- 05 January 2010 - |
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- 3.5 |
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- 22 December 2009 - |
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- 0 |
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- 28 November 2009 - |
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- 3.5 |
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- 27 November 2009 - |
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- 3 |
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- 11 November 2009 - |
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- 0 |
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- 02 November 2009 - |
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Steves Digicams 's conclusion / rating - 15 March 2010 |
“ Nikon Coolpix S70 is overall a decent camera. While I did struggle with it's slower GUI and shooting performance, the camera does capture nice photos, and there are plenty of really nice shooting modes and options. I think this would be a great camera for someone looking to capture snapshots of friends and family, with the ability to slip the unit into the smallest of pants pockets or a small handbag. The S70 looks and feels good too, which I'm sure will be appealing to many. With a street price of about $299US, the S70 is competitively priced in the ultra-compact, Touch category... ”
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CNET UK 's conclusion / rating - 05 January 2010 |
“ The Nikon Coolpix S70 will certainly turn heads with its flashy design, slick touchscreen interface, and internal wideangle 5x zoom lens. If you're after £230 worth of photo quality and performance though, you might find that those aspects of the S70 fall short of the rest of the package... ”
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DigitalCameraReview 's conclusion / rating - 22 December 2009 |
“ 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.
It is a great idea, in theory, to throw in an OLED instead of a common LCD as a touch viewfinder/display. It certainly out-performs a standard LCD in bright sunlight, but it doesn't really shine against the competition because its resolution is only average.
What the Coolpix S70 offers is minimal user input and a touch-only interface. There's a certain audience for that kind of camera, and the S70 isn't necessarily a bad choice for that demographic. An expansive touch display and faux-leather grip scream style, and the technology has a lot of potential. But for your $250-300, you'd be much better served by a camera that's more focused on practical usability... ”
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CNET 's conclusion / rating - 28 November 2009 |
“ The Nikon Coolpix S70 will certainly turn heads with its flashy design, slick touch-screen interface, and internal wide-angle 5x zoom lens. If you're after $400 worth of photo quality and performance though, those aspects of the S70 fall short of the rest of the package... ”
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PhotographyBLOG 's conclusion / rating - 27 November 2009 |
“ 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.
In use, the S70 can at times prove annoying - we have often found ourselves in the Home menu against our will when we involuntarily touched the omnipresent Home icon in the lower right-hand corner, for instance - and its image quality is only so-so due to sharpness inconsistencies and the negative effect of too high pixel density on dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio. As a touchscreen device, it is a step behind the times - yes, it has multi-touch and gesture support, but the execution is a little rough and the experience is less fluid than with a latest-generation Apple iPhone.
The most interesting part of the Nikon S70 is undoubtedly its 3.5-inch OLED screen, which we found provided a very wide viewing angle with no colour shifts or loss of contrast, but did not prove to be any better than a decent LCD screen when it came to daylight visibility. We were a little disappointed at its resolution too; a display of this size should really have at least 460,000 dots instead of just 288,000.
In theory, the neat-looking Nikon Coolpix S70 could appeal to both photographers and gadget lovers, but for the reasons mentioned in the first paragraph above, we are afraid that Nikon might just find itself stuck between a rock and a hard place. Costing between £225 and £299 at the time of writing, this Coolpix is at least competitively priced for a touchscreen camera, but one is left wondering if it really has what it takes to swing anyone in particular in its direction... ”
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DPInterface 's conclusion / rating - 11 November 2009 |
“ Nikon has been doing a good job with touchscreen implementation of their cameras and the new Coolpix S70 takes things a step further by including multi-touch and gesture support. On its surface, the Nikon Coolpix S70 looks like your typical ultra-thin camera but switch it on and browse about, and you’ll discover that it has one of the better touchscreen user interface/menu systems you can find on a digital camera.
The camera is build very well with a nice faux-leather front and responsive touchscreen. Of course, there are drawbacks to the Coolpix S70’s big touchscreen, such as the lack of space to hold the camera, almost zero physical controls/buttons (poor choice on Nikon’s part) and low display resolution (another poor decision). It kind of makes me wonder why Nikon chose to put a WQVGA screen on the S70 when some of the competition has much high resolution WVGA displays.
The Nikon Coolpix S70 takes one step forward with its nice 5X lens but then, it takes a step back with the lens’ crummy aperture range. It may have some shortcomings, but the S70 is much better in the feature set department. n fact, it does boast a few nice bells and whistles, including a very rare (on digital cameras) support for USB charging. For travelers, that can mean one less charger to carry around if you’re bringing your laptop/netbook, since the Coolpix S70 can charge while you’re using your computer.
The Coolpix S70 is mainly a point-and-shoot camera, with no direct control over exposure available. The camera has lots of scene modes, plenty of portrait-related features (face, blink and smile detection) and camera settings that are very easy to access in Program/regular Auto mode (just two taps away). Performance-wise, the Coolpix S70’s average speed will suffice for casual shooting but not for those planning to capture action or shoot in poorly-lit conditions.
I’m glad to report that image quality of the Coolpix S70 was good, on par with most cameras in this class and a definite improvement over Nikon’s compact cameras of the past The Coolpix S70 managed to produce photos with nicely saturated colors and good levels of detail, that were usable up till ISO 800. The camera also happily removed redeye without fuss, though the same cannot be said about noise reduction at higher ISOs (starting from 800). Like on most cameras, once you hit ISO 800, things start to get muddy, and I wouldn’t advise using anything ISO 1600 and above. There’s also some edge softness and color fringing.
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... ”
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Ken Rockwell 's conclusion / rating - 02 November 2009 |
“ 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.
The S70 has a nice rubberized front for holding it, which would be great if you didn't have to control it with two hands on the slow touch-screen.
The S70 charges from the same USB cord with which you can download photos. Therefore you can leave the charger at home if you bring your computer.
The plug-in-the-wall charger is merely a USB 5V socket, meaning that you probably can use all your existing iPod chargers and not bother bringing the S70 charger, or alternately, I can charge my iPod with its USB cable plugged into the S70's plug-in-the-wall charging adaptor.
The fuzzy lens of the S70 doesn't need to extend to shoot. All you do is flip down the front door. This could make the S70 more resistant to internal dust, and more resistant to what usually kills compacts, which is erectile dysfunction for lenses that need to extend every time those cameras are turned on and off. Likewise, there is no need for an automatic lens cover, which is the next most common thing that breaks in other cameras... ”
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