Nikon expands Coolpix S series

The new Coolpix S6600 is equipped with a side-hinged vari-angle monitor of 2.7“ enabling flexible shooting – from low angles to high – and even self portraits are possible by using the gesture control function. Movies can be taken at Full HD format (1,920 x 1,080/60i).

The camera is also equipped with a couple of advanced functions such as Target Finding AF, where the user need simply point the camera at the desired subject and the camera instantly predicts and focuses on the intended subject, automatically specifying focus area and focus area size, Scene Auto Selector, which automatically specifies the optimal scene mode, and Smile Timer (Continuous), with which the camera detects smiles and captures up to 5 images continuously so that the perfect smile is never lost.

In addition, special effects (applied with shooting) and quick effects (applied immediately after shooting or with image playback) have been improved to enable capture of images as intended with simple operation. Among these improvements are the Mirror special effect, which creates a bilaterally symmetric image with which the right half is an inverted mirror image of the left half, and the new Soft Portrait quick effect, allowing users to blur the background to emphasize a human subject.