Nikon Coolpix L12 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom

by Nikon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.6 x 1 x 2.4 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• 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: B000N49WQG
• Item model number: 25562
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,036 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 20, 2007

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

The Nikon Coolpix L12 combines an array of high-quality components, including a 3x Zoom-Nikkor lens and a bright 2.5-inch LCD screen, with in-camera image-improvement features, housed in a lightweight, compact, yet elegantly finished body. It boasts a powerful 3x Zoom-Nikkor lenses with a focal range equivalent to that of a 38-116mm (35mm equivalent), providing the freedom to zoom in for tight personal portraits or out to capture expansive outdoor scenes.

The CCD delivers higher performance within tighter dimensions, greatly adding to the camera's compact form and portability while offering a generous effective megapixel value of 7.0, ensuring the refined image clarity that users have come to expect from other members of the Coolpix family.

The Coolpix L12 also features 15 specially programmed modes to automatically handle focus, exposure, white balance and other adjustments that help you take great pictures easily.

Nikon Coolpix L12 Highlights

Optical VR image stabilization You can shoot sharper, clearer and without blur with Nikon’s ingenious Vibration Reduction. Detects and corrects for camera movement to give you rock-steady results time after time.

3x Optical Zoom-Nikkor glass lens High-quality lenses deliver high-quality pictures. The Zoom-Nikkor glass lens gives you the power of 3x optical zoom lens, while Macro capability lets you get as close as 5.9 inches. This combination is supported by Nikons’ world-renowned optical technology delivering crisp, clear images.

High ISO capability The Coolpix L12's high light sensitivity of up to 1600 allows you to tackle low-light scenes and situations far beyond the capabilities of conventional compact cameras.

Incredible, bright 2.5-inch LCD The Coolpix L12 is equipped with an incredible 2.5-inch LCD great for viewing images anywhere, anytime. The 115,000 dot LCD monitor with anti-reflective coating makes composing and playing back images easy!

The Coolpix L12 One-Touch Portrait Button It’s easier than ever before to get great-looking results. Your shortcut to three unique innovations, the one-touch portrait feature offers instant access to Face-priority AF and In-Camera Red-Eye Fix for optimized image capture and lets you transform exposure after the fact with Nikon’s powerful D-Lighting.

D-Lighting In playback mode, D-Lighting will compensate for underexposed images or insufficient flash by adding light and detail to selected shots where needed, without affecting properly exposed areas.

Face-Priority AF To ensure superb portraits with crisp focus, select Face-Priority AF (in Portrait Scene mode). This feature automatically finds the subject’s face and focuses on it.

In-camera color options & QuickTime movie with sound Shoot a QuickTime movie with sound at 30 frames per second, and choose from five color shooting options (standard, vivid color, black and white, sepia, cyanotype).

Transfer Directly to Printer, TV or Web

Print directly from your camera You can transfer images directly to print, without the need of a PC, when using PictBridge and USB Direct Print compatible printers.

Connect directly to your TV Show friends and family the results on a grand scale with the supplied video cable.

Nikon In-Camera Innovations

• Movie recording allows you to record movies in three modes with sound: TV movie size (640), small size (320) and smaller (160) for extended recording or Internet usage.
• Voice Memo function records up to 20 seconds of sound that can be then attached to an image.
• Color options allows you to make pictures more vivid or record monotones.
• In-camera cropping allows you to crop out the part of the image you don’t want and keep the part you do.
• Best shot selector enables the camera to take a series of photos and automatically select the one with the sharpest focus.
• Blur warning alerts you to a burry image.
• Noise reduction minimizes digital artifacts in long exposures.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy, Breezy Camera!!, May 12, 2007

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M. Williams "Texas Mom" (Harlingen, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nikon Coolpix L12 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom (Electronics)

I bought this camera to replace my Olympus c720 Ultra Zoom (very disappointed with its performance, only 3 yrs old). I wanted a small camera that could take great pictures of children who DO NOT stop for the camera. This camera handles those situations perfectly and the size you cannot beat. I love the long movie time it gives you and the large viewing screen. The modes are easy and the menu is a breeze to navigate with just enough to add features and simple enough to change on the fly without losing precious moments.

The vibration reduction I have used only a couple times, not the best pictures-they come out VERY GRAINY!! I thought I would need it more to take pictures of the kids, I have better luck on the Auto mode or Indoor mode. The delay between pictures is slower than others, but the picture quality is great.

Overall, very happy. Would give it 5 stars but the delay between pictures and the hype of the vibration reduction mode disappoints me. I would buy another again despite these facts and am actually waiting to get some more in the slush fund to buy my husband one so we each have one!!

Very easy, light and user friendly for the beginner to slight advanced photographer!!

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nikon Coolpix L12 is good, but, May 10, 2007

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JohnF1940 (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nikon Coolpix L12 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom (Electronics)

I purchased the L12 to replace my Coolpix 4600 so I could get sound in the movie mode. This works very well, and I'm more than satisfied with picture quality and battery life, and ease of use. The big problem is no viewfinder. I purchased this camera knowing that there was no viewfinder, but I thought I could get used to composing my pictures on the LCD screen. Unfortunately, the LCD screen is virtually useless outdoors on sunny days. You are reduced to pointing the camera and crossing your fingers. Forget about composition. It seems that most camera makers are eleminating the viewfinders in this catagory. I think that is a mistake. The old Coolpix 4600 zoom viewfinder is excellent.

32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A major flaw with this camera, June 10, 2007

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E. Quigley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nikon Coolpix L12 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom (Electronics)

I bought this camera and returned it the same day. The reason: when you take a photo, there is a really long waiting period before you can take another photo. If you're not using the flash, it's about 3 seconds, which is manageable, but still slow compared to other cameras. If you are using flash, be prepared to wait. You take a photo, then the LCD screen goes blank and the flash resets itself. You can do nothing during this time - you can't take another photo, you can't turn off the flash, nothing. And this goes on for 9 seconds (I timed it). This nearly 10-second delay between flash photos makes this camera basically useless when using the flash.

The camera otherwise seemed fine, but nothing spectacular. The VR wasn't that awe-inspiring and you can get more by buying a Sony Cybershot (which I did and am very happy with). The Sony, which costs about $20 more, takes less than 3 seconds between flash photos. It's the difference between capturing a good shot and missing it completely.