Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #937 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Nikon
• Model: S220 - Red
• Released on: 2009-02-20
• Dimensions: 2.19" h x 3.52" w x .71" l, .22 pounds
• Display size: 2.5

Features

• Nikon combines a 10-megapixel sensor, a high-performance 3x zoomand an electronic VR image stabiliser into a compact body to bring you astunning camera: the Coolpix S220.  The bold, easy-to-use Coolpix S220 isavailable in a range of bright colours to suit every taste. It incorporates allof the technologies Nikon is famous for and has a slim casing (just 18mm thick)which hides a number of automatic modes, including scene selection, best shotselection and an intelligent portrait feature.  Thank
• s to this Nikon camera, you can takespectacular-quality shots in all conditions. For example, the S220 can take two photos and keep only the one where you subject is smiling withtheir eyes open. D-lighting improves the quality of snaps by reducing shadyareas and by correcting under-exposed shots and other photos affected bybacklighting.  The best of digital photography is at your fingertips withthe Nikon Coolpix S220!
• Coolpix S220 - red Including Charger

Manufacturer's Description
Slim, sophisticated and available in a rich selection of pleasing colours The COOLPIX S220 squeezes sophisticated style, advanced functions and high performance into an 18mm ultra-slim and ultra-light design that will increase your enjoyment of picture-taking even more.

Advanced image stabilizing features that ensure sharper results Compensating for the effects of camera shake to realize sharper results, electronic VR image stabilization lets you enjoy capturing special moments without worrying about slight hand movements. Motion Detection automatically controls shutter speed and the ISO setting compensates for camera shake and subject movement.

Scene Auto Selector Nikon’s Scene Auto Selector provides carefree shooting in a variety of situations by recognizing the setting and automatically selecting the appropriate scene mode.

Beautiful portraits with ease Smile Mode helps you to record precious moments by automatically releasing the shutter when your subject smiles. The new Blink Proof function automatically shoots two sequential frames and saves the shot in which the subject’s eyes are open-wide.

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Customer Reviews

Very portable, very smart
It is a good choice if you want images but cannot, for one or another reason, lug around a beefy slr. It has the perennial problem, of course, that everything is driven from the back screen, and when you can't see the screen because of strong light .. ! But it is a clever and very light device and the results are generally excellent, so far as it goes. Battery life, with frequent usage, seems to be about ten days but would doubtless go longer. Uploading is fine and with an 8gb chip, you are not likely to run out of memory. I tried the video feature and it is obviously okay but I wasn't that interested.

Extremely poor image quality
Having read reviews of this camera on Amazon and also on Which, I wasn't expecting too much - it's a pretty cheap camera, after all - but on viewing the first batch of images, I'm really, really disappointed. What's the point in having a stated 10mp when there are such serious problems with fringing, pixellation and poor colour reproduction, not to mention being unable to handle any kind of contrast in well-lit conditions?
I'd expect as much from a webcam, to be frank. Not even good enough for printing holiday snaps at 6x4, let alone anything larger - which, to be frank, is reasonable to expect for a camera with this stated resolution.
I 'upgraded' to this Nikon from an ageing 5mp Pentax, which had a smaller LCD but vastly superior picture quality (not to mention quicker start-up and save-to-card times).
Yes, this Nikon is compact, cheap-ish and easy to use, but that's no excuse for low image quality. Avoid.

Nikon S220 not so good.
I decided to buy a Nikon coolpix S220 (10 mega pixel) as a replacement for my old Nikon 2100 following 5yrs good service and many great pictures.

The S220 is a very small camera with some nice features if you read the speal. It sounds a great camera to pop in your pocket and capture those family moments wherever you are.

I have to say I was very dissapointed in the picture quality with
most of the photo's taken being either not sharp or have lots of noise.
The Video mode is very poor also and not as good as my Sony mobile phone !!!

This camera shows some good ideas from Nikon but in my opinion the very small size makes it far too fiddley to use and perhaps this also contributes to the poor picture quality, as larger Nikons seem to give much better quality pic's......

All in all my old Nikon takes better pictures at only 2MP than the new S220. Therefore I will be sending this one back to Amazon for a refund.

Perhaps its worth spending the extra £70-80 and buying the Fuji F200EXR if you want crisp clear pics that are good in low light too.

4/10 Nikon, could do better !!!