Nikon COOLPIX S100 16 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom NIKKOR ED Glass Lens and 3.5-Inch OLED Touchscreen (Black)

by Nikon

• Ultra-slim body design (less than 1-inch)
• 16 effective megapixel CMOS sensor for better pictures in low light and fast framing rates
• 5x optical Zoom-NIKKOR ED glass lens, 28-140mm (35mm equivalent) for superior image quality
• Touch control with huge, high resolution 3.5-in. OLED monitor with 820,000-dot Clear Color display and anti-reflection coating
• Full HD (1080p) movie recording with Optical zoom, stereo sound and special effects

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1 x 3 x 4 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B005IGVXYS
• Item model number: 26280
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,574 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 1, 2011

Product Description

Color: Black

From the Manufacturer

Whether you're headed out for a night on the town with friends or a quick weekend getaway, you'll want to take the Nikon COOLPIX S100 everywhere you go. Ultra-slim and ultra-chic, it offers the features you want in a camera that fits your style. Its 16.0-MP CMOS sensor lets you shoot vibrant images and Full HD (1080p) movies even in low lighting conditions, and its huge, high-resolution 3.5-inch OLED Touch Screen makes viewing and sharing a breeze. The S100 is the camera to be seen with while you're making the scene.

Take it on all your jaunts

Bold, beautiful, ultra-sleek design

The S100 is the ideal combination of technology and sleek fashion design in one ultra-slim camera. It's incredibly thin—less than 1-inch—so it slips comfortably into your pocket or bag. The beautiful, bright 3.5-inch OLED touch screen offers a touch-control interface and innovative features. Uniquely detailed and available in a number of trendy colors, the S100 is the latest fashion accessory you'll want to add to your tech couture.

Brilliant photos in any light

Exceptional low-light performance

Stop settling for those "too dark" and "out of focus" shots taken on your smartphone. The S100 can handle your photo and movie shooting even in challenging lighting conditions. Its 16.0-MP CMOS sensor provides superb image quality, high speed operation and exceptional low-light performance, and its versatile 5x wide-angle optical Zoom-NIKKOR glass lens (28-140mm equivalent) lets you capture group shots as well as close-ups so you don't miss any action on the dance floor.

Brighten any gathering

Huge 3.5-inch OLED Touch Screen

The S100's bold and vibrant 3.5-inch OLED touch screen puts you in touch with your images. Its large size and extraordinary wide viewing angles make it ideal for sharing your photos and videos with a crowd of friends or composing those cool over-the-head shots. Controlling camera functions, focusing and shooting can be performed with a few touches of your finger, and an easy-to-use graphic interface makes shooting and sharing fun.

Get social with movies

Shoot and share Full HD (1080p) movies

Let your friends show off their dance moves, shoot some great sequence clips and then share them on your favorite social sites—the S100 won't miss a beat. It offers Full HD (1080p) movies in stereo sound with touch operation and optical zoom while recording. And viewing them at home is a snap with a mini HDMI connector that offers easy playback on your HDTV.

Match your creative mood

Easy Panorama and a host of innovative scene modes

Getting those panoramic group shots with all your best buds has never been easier thanks to Nikon's Easy Panorama mode. Just press the shutter and pan the camera—the S100 will take care of the rest. It automatically stitches together each frame to produce a high-resolution panoramic photo. And don't ever be afraid to shoot in the dark. The S100 offers a trio of night scene solutions for just those occasions. Night Portrait, Night Landscape and a Backlight HDR scene mode allow you to take great photos at night.

Take your photos to a new dimension

The S100 features Nikon's new 3D image shooting capability making it easy to create composite images that achieve realistic playback on 3D-capable TVs and computers.

Filter effects add creative fun

Enjoy the fun of adding a unique artistic expression to your favorite pictures. Apply creative in-camera filter effects and easily create your own original works of art right within the S100.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 41 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great camera with one real flaw April 7, 2012

By Allan

Color Name:Black|Amazon Verified Purchase

I've had this camera for a few months now, and so far it's performed very well. The lack of buttons and the sweet touch screen makes for an elegant package. I haven't tested most of it's capabilities, however.

BUT, this camera inexplicably has no Auto-off function. The sliding cover acts as a switch, and if you accidentally leave it open it enters a standby mode, but then DOESN'T SHUT OFF! It slowly drains the battery completely. I keep it in a case and didn't notice I had left it open, only to twice find a dead battery when I really needed a camera. And you can't pop in a spare. I think every digital camera I've owned had this feature. It simply doesn't make sense to leave it off a relatively expensive camera, especially since it's so easy to leave it open unintentionally.

And on the subject of that sliding cover/switch, using it creates several parallel scratches on the front of the camera- which takes away some of the elegance I mentioned. Not a real problem, but I still wonder why Nikon created a system destined to deface itself.

43 of 48 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Picture Quality August 13, 2012

By D. Grimes

Color Name:Red|Amazon Verified Purchase

After a lot of research, and a top recommendation from Consumer Reports, I purchased this camera for my wife. Bottom line: I do not recommend this cameras.

It had all the features I was looking for: good optical quality, thin and compact, lightweight, fast start-up time and recovery, a fixed lens (doesn't protrude out) with a good optical zoom, and it even came in red. For these qualities, it is successful.

Where it is not successful is giving a decent picture. It exudes several poor behaviors:
-Inconsistant focus. 3 out 5 are way out of focus (optical focus, not image blur) and 1 out of 5 is actually sharp.
-This camera has a very slow shutter speed in low light (lots of streaking). It must have a poor image stabilizer, too.
-The flash is very inaccurate and inconsistent. No two shots are the same, even if taken right after each other.
-Most shots are too bright. I must use exposure compensation always, which often resets back to 0.
-The video is often very blurry and the focus stays fixed. One must stop and start the video to get it to refocus.
-The slide to turn it on slides out in my wifes purse and turns on, depleting the battery.
-The lens is in a poor location; my wife keeps covering up the lens with her finger.
-Low light pictures are almost unusable.
-The panoramic mode does not process properly so there is lots of ghosting/double imagery.
-Very grainy in dark areas.
-The camera remains on and the battery will go dead if the USB cable is plugged into the camera but removed from a computer after downloading pictures.
-The charger form factor takes up too much space on a power plug.
-The color balance is either way too warm or way too cold. It doesn't seem to be able to adapt to shade properly.
-The OLED touchscreen easily scratches.
-Touching menu buttons is often read as wanting to take a picture, so it does. Lots of deletes.
-Seems to be losing videos.
-I don't get "thumbnails" of the pictures in Windows 7 x64 folders.

I thought Nikon made good cameras but not so on this model. I have a Kodak 3 MP camera from 2002 that consistently yields better pictures than this camera. I just went back and reviewed a bunch of pictures from a staycation and found very few keepers. I really recommend you avoid this camera so I am downgrading to a single star.

18 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Touchy touch screen February 5, 2012

By David Messent

Color Name:Red|Amazon Verified Purchase

Very nice camera except for the ability to touch the OLED screen to trigger the shutter. I found myself taking many unintentional pictures.

I found there was an option to change the touch to something other that the shutter. I changed it and things are much better.