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The Nikon Coolpix S550 is a 10 megapixel digital camera with a 5x optical zoom lens. It is small enough to slip into most pockets.

Why Buy the Nikon Coolpix S550?

If you like the idea of a smaller camera, but would like a bit more zoom power than many pocket compacts offer then the Coolpix S550 may fit the bill. It also scores well for ease of use and comes with many of the more popular features such as image stabilisation and face detection for sharper portraits.

Image Quality Nikon Coolpix S550 test shots

Outdoor 1 (Medium Zoom)

One point I like about Nikon digital cameras is the combination of colour and brightness. This helps to produce vibrant photos as seen in my first test shot. There is a small amount of detail lost from the boats towards the right of the picture. This problem is only likely to become an issue if you plan to make larger prints.

Outdoor 2 (No Zoom)

This is another decent effort. Again, I like the colours in the shot. Owing to the distant scene, this is a tough shot for focusing, but the Coolpix S550 handles the scene well enough.

Outdoor 3 (Maximum Zoom)

With the zoom lens fully utilized focusing is not as sharp as in the first two photos. The photo is noticeably softer as you move towards the edges. This is particularly evident in the trees and bushes on the right hand side of the photo.

Outdoor 4 (Building)

For my outdoor scenic shots I have an issue with the focusing options offered by Nikon digital cameras. Most other cameras give you an option to select multi point focusing. This means the camera will select a large number of points right across the photo and check they are in focus. My belief is that this helps to produce landscape type shots where focusing is strong for the majority of the photo. Nikon do not normally provide this option and instead use an automatic focusing mode where the camera decides the areas it wishes to focus on.

In this shot, focusing again drifts, especially on the right hand side. This may or may not be a problem for you. It will depend on the type of photographs you plan to take and whether or not you plan to make prints larger than the standard snapshot sizes.

Outdoor Portrait

Working closer to the subject all the focusing issues has gone away. There is plenty of colour in the skin tones and this suggests the Coolpix S550 is able to producing pleasing family snapshots for your album.

Indoor Portrait without Flash

This is a good effort. It possible could have been a shade brighter, but overall the photo works well.

Indoor Portrait with Flash

With flash, the photo is not surprisingly a lot brighter. Despite the flash being used, the Coolpix S550 has managed to retain plenty of colour in the photo.

Colours

As mentioned earlier I like the colours produced by the Coolpix S550. In fact, when it comes to reproducing colours in photos, Nikon is one of my favourite brands.

Macro

I have no problems with the quality of the macro photo, but you need to take into account that this Nikon digital camera can only focus once it is 10cm away from the subject. This may not sound a lot, but it means that most close up shots will need to be cropped to achieve a true close in effect.

ISO 400 and 1600

The Coolpix S550 handles noise quite well at ISO 400. It is only in more shady areas where the problem becomes apparent. As ISO 1600, noise can be seen throughout the photo.

Overall

If I could have achieved better focusing results with some of more distant test shots, I would have been very happy with the Coolpix S550.

Shutter Lag

A single photo was on the slow side (0.59 seconds without flash, 1.72 seconds with flash). Reeling off a few consecutive shots was better (9.83 seconds for 5 shots without flash, 12.20 seconds for 5 shots with flash).

It took 2.62 seconds to turn the camera on and take a photo.

You can compare this camera to other models by taking a look at the Shutter Lag Comparison Table.

Style: The Coolpix S550 is a straightforward, no nonsense digital camera. It is a pretty standard rectangular shape. It is available in blue, black and plumb.

Dimensions: 51 x 88 x 22mm

Weight: 120g

Batteries: Lithium Ion. Both a battery and charger are supplied with the camera. Nikon estimates you should be able to take around 220 shots in between charges.

Memory cards: Nikon have built a generous 52mb of storage into the Coolpix S500. This is plenty to give the camera a thorough test. I was able to take 31 photos before the memory was full. To enhance the camera’s storage capacity you will need to pick up an SD or SDHC memory card.

Ease of use rating: Very Good. As with Nikon digital cameras in general it should not take you long to find your way around. The menu design is simple and clear.

Points I like: Ease of use

Where it could improve:

Soft focusing on scenic shots

Alternatives

Another straightforward, pocket sized camera with 10 megapixels and a 5x optical zoom is the Sony DSC W170.

Verdict:

The Nikon Coolpix S550 is an effective, pocket sized digital camera. It takes bright, colourful photos. I would like to have seen greater sharpness in my scenic test shots, but aside from that I have no real complaints. The Coolpix S550 also scores well for ease of use.

Front View

Verdict:

The Nikon Coolpix S550 is an effective, pocket sized digital camera. It takes bright, colourful photos. I would like to have seen greater sharpness in my scenic test shots, but aside from that I have no real complaints. The Coolpix S550 also scores well for ease of use.

Back View

Verdict:

The Nikon Coolpix S550 is an effective, pocket sized digital camera. It takes bright, colourful photos. I would like to have seen greater sharpness in my scenic test shots, but aside from that I have no real complaints. The Coolpix S550 also scores well for ease of use.

Top View

Verdict:

The Nikon Coolpix S550 is an effective, pocket sized digital camera. It takes bright, colourful photos. I would like to have seen greater sharpness in my scenic test shots, but aside from that I have no real complaints. The Coolpix S550 also scores well for ease of use.

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Nowadays, owning an optimized digital camera is more than a must. We are surrounded by beautiful moments, by special occasions and special people – and we need to immortalize all these – but how can we do this, if not with the help of a digital camera? Choose the advanced Canon digital cameras and you’ll never regret it, as they combine everything you could possibly desire from a professional and portable package to immortalize some pleasant moments.

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Canon digital cameras are easy to use, helping you to choose from a number of shooting modes. There are various helpful features and even functions that were considered advanced in previous generations of digital cameras. If you don’t prefer cameras because of their weight and difficult way of dealing with them, the new generation Canon digital cameras have a really portable package. You’ll love it and you’ll not get enough of it.

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Copyright (c) 2008 Tom Jackson

I am writing this article in December 2008. In the economic crises we are now facing, it can be very difficult to make enough money to pay the bills. Many people are being laid off, and finding work is becoming more and more difficult. One way is to start your own home based photography business using your digital camera. If you own a good quality digital camera, you can start your own home photography business. Wedding Photography is an approx. $5 Billion per year industry.

You can make an excellent at home with your digital camera and shooting weddings on weekends. Do you love taking photos of family and friends? Do your family come to you for photo advice? Then you can start your own business taking wedding photos on weekends. Wedding photography can be a very lucrative part time or full time career. In the United State alone, the Wedding Photography industry accounts for approx., $5 Billion per year. That’s a very large market. And with some know how and a decent digital camera, you can be a part of this industry. All you need is a course that includes business forms, technical discussions, sample ads and business cards, and even tips on using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture.

In this article, I will explain some technical considerations of picture taking. Available light photography and many people often have questions about the aperture and how to use it effectively.

Available light photography is pretty much as the term says. You take photos using just the available light in the scene. You do not use the flash on the camera or other portable light sources. However, by using s reflector, you can redirect, or model, the light to give a more pleasing and natural effect. In my blog, the address is below in the resource box, you will see some sample photos, including a scene from a wedding which does not use a flash.

If you look carefully at the photo, you will notice some very obvious things about the light. Overall, the light is very even right across the whole image, including the background of the image. This is because the light is bouncing off the walls of the church and lighting the whole scene. A flash on the other hand, will only light a small part of the scene, usually just the bride. The problem with flash is that it will product a lot of hard shadows both on the bride and dress, and also on the background. With flash, you would normally see a big shadow of the bride on the wall in the background. By using available light, you eliminate this shadow. Also, the shadows on the brides face are also very soft.

Now, the biggest problem with available light photography, is that the exposures are usually much longer, and so there is more opportunity for the subjects to move a create a blurred image, thus negating all the advantages. So, you need to let people know that this is a special lighting effect and that they need to stay very still for the exposure. The image shown in the blog, had a shutter speed of a quarter of a second. Photographically speaking, that is a long time. Most exposures will be in the order of a hundredth of a second or more, which will freeze the movement of most subjects (maybe not very active children) and give you a nice pleasing photo as a result.

We need to consider two things to when using available light to get correct exposures. One is, as we mentioned, the shutter speed, and the other of course, is the aperture.

Lets take a look at how a correct exposure works. The shutter speed, in a wedding for instance, will freeze the movement of the subjects, so that the images appear sharp and pleasing to the eye. So, the shutter speed determines how long the light affects the sensor on the camera, and the aperture affects how much light hits the sensor. So the combination of how much light hits the sensor for how long determines by the shutter speed, gives us a correct exposure.

The secondary effects of the shutter speed is the amount of movement shown on the image. A fast shutter speed will show no movement, and a slow shutter speed will cause a blur of the image, either from the movement of the subject or by not holding the camera perfectly steady.

The secondary effect of the aperture is how much of the image is in sharp focus. With either shutter speed or aperture, a lot of people get confused about the numbers involved. The aperture shown on a camera lens is usually shown as f5.6 or f8 etc. The confusing part for many photographers, is that the larger the f number, the smaller the lens opening. But do not let the numbers confuse you. The numbers are only written this way because of space constraints. The number is really a fraction, and every number technically should be written with a one on top of the number. So, f8 is really f and 1 over 8. And f16 is really f 1 over 16, or a sixteenth. What this means is that each stop downs, halves the amount of light coming through the lens.

The effect of closing down the aperture this way, is that the smaller the aperture, the larger the depth of field. In other words, the smaller the aperture, more of the image will appear in focus. So, when shooting portraits, we usually want a shallow depth of field, so that the background does not affect the appearance of the subject. But as we adjust the aperture, by letting more or less light reach the sensor, we have to adjust the shutter speed to allow the light to be on the sensor for a longer or shorter period to make a correct exposure.

If you enjoy photography as much as I do, then you might be considering how to make some money with your camera. Tom Jackson began his career by shooting weddings. Tom has been a consultant to the graphic design, advertising and publishing industries, teaching digital technology. You can get more info on photography and see examples of his work here; For free tips visit Toms blog.

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