NEW CAMERA

Today Nikon Updated its COOLPIX S-series with Nikon COOLPIX S8200 digital camera, The new Nikon COOLPIX S8200 features 16.1million 1/2.3-in. type CMOS Sensor, 14x optical zoom, NIKKOR lens 4.5-63.0mm, Aperture range f/3.3-5.9, ISO sensitivity from 100 to 3200, 1h 10 min (HD 1080p). The maximum file size for a single movie is 4 GB and the maximum movie length for a single movie is 29 minutes, even when there is sufficient free space on the memory card for longer recording.

The new Target finding AF function allows the camera to automatically predict and focus on the intended subject

The new Target finding AF function, which uses Nikon’s exclusive high-performance image analysis technology, has been adopted. Used for the first time in a Nikon compact digital camera, Target finding AF allows the user to simply point the camera in the direction of the intended subject and the camera immediately predicts that subject and then specifies the focus area and size for focusing. As the active focus area is automatically specified in accordance with the size of the subject, resulting images are in clear focus. In addition, Target finding AF not only works with subjects positioned at the center of the frame, but with off-center subjects as well. This capability is clearly exhibited with shooting of smaller subjects such as flowers, food and the like.

With previous nine-point Auto AF area mode, priority was given to subjects closer to the camera. With scenes like the one at left, this resulted in focus acquisition on coffee cup that were closer to the camera than the intended cake at the center of the frame. With Target finding AF, however, the camera automatically predicts that the cake is the intended subject and focuses on that cake, resulting in capture of the desired image.