Review on Nikon COOLPIX S4100 14 MP Digital Camera With 5X NIKKOR Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens And 3-Inch Touch-Panel LCD (Red) by Hotaru Kai ᠌

Name: Nikon COOLPIX S4100 14 MP Digital Camera With 5X NIKKOR Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens And 3-Inch Touch-Panel LCD (Red)
Item: Nikon COOLPIX S4100 14 MP Digital Camera With 5X NIKKOR Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens And 3-Inch Touch-Panel LCD (Red)
Rating: 3

November 28, 2022

Not exactly what I wanted, but basically everything is fine.

Realizing the mundane price level of the model, it is naive to expect super-zoom, GPS, Wi-Fi, etc. The level of the model is almost equal to the capabilities of phone shooting, slightly surpassing it only in the "Backlighting" and "Macro" functions. I bought this model due to a breakdown / repair of the main camera, as an inexpensive, urgently needed option for vacations and filming like "Family and the Sea". After the holidays, I will give it to my junior school son to master the Nikon buttons.
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Pros

The presence of the "Backlighting" and "Macro" functions, compactness, the usual Nikon control buttons, video (I rarely use it). Good shots of portraits and landscapes without zooming in with good lighting.

Cons

Charging is NOT micro-USB (inability to charge with a telephone wire). When approaching (although it is small / "conditional" in terms of technical characteristics), the quality of the image drops significantly. With twilight and fireworks, despite the declared functions, in comparison with their much more expensive counterparts, it does not cope. The "Backlighting" function only works with flash, i. E. it is only suitable for daytime shooting. For older, more expensive Nikon digital cameras, this function can work without a flash for beautiful shooting of a night-lit street, for example. With practically telephone skills, the price could be 20 percent lower (I bought it for 7500; the red price is not more than 6 thousand).