Digital Home Thoughts - News & Reviews for the Digital Home

The Nikon Coolpix S8100 is a point and shoot digital camera in what I like to call the "Pocket Superzoom" category; you get 10x to 12x zoom on most cameras in this category, but in a camera body that's small enough to easily slip into your pocket. The S8100 has 10x zoom (30mm to 300mm) and an f/3.5 to f/5.6 lens. The lack of a nice f/2.0 aperture and the 1/2.3" image sensor means you're not going to be getting those nice photos with a blurred background, but hey, you can't have everything at this size/price point. The macro close-up mode works at 1cm, and the three inch 921K screen is a TFT LCD with an anti-reflection coating. Read more...