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The Nikon CoolPix S550 digital camera comes with 90 x 53.5 x 22 mm in dimensions and 120 grams in weight. This cool unit comes with a 10 MP resolution and a 5x zoom which is all packed in a smooth and thin case, available in a beautiful blue color which is simply amazing and pleasant to the eyes.

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This digital camera comes with a rocking zoom switch located on the top right corner and below it you shall find a gripping area for placing the thumb. The four way navigation pad is composed by the delete, menu, playback and mode buttons. The mode button is the one that will allow you to choose your preferred shooting mode and you have a wide selection and choices available such as ISO, audio record, scenes or smile detection. If you choose the high ISO modes, shooting and menu button will show the general list of functions. The Nikon CoolPix S550 digital camera comes with a cool metal case which surrounds the circuits and makes sure the camera stays safe during minor shocks and impacts. The flash of this camera has a range of 0.3 – 4.7 m in the wide angle and 0.6 – 3.1 m at telephoto.



The shutter lag of the Nikon CoolPix S550 digital camera will manage to impress a lot of people. When several tests were run using this camera, the results obtained were between 0.01 and 0.04 seconds. With the color tests which were run, the images have proven to be of good color quality but the Nikon CoolPix S550 digital camera failed at the metering test because the light falling on the portrait shot led to a model which came out under exposed. If you activate the flash, a greener cast is noticed but it is nothing too upsetting. Even so, flash on this camera will created e perfectly balanced image that offers clear details.

Focus and metering are other 2 important aspects on a good digital camera. This camera model comes with face recognition system which means that this intelligent Nikon is going to allow you to take pictures of friends of family, excluding strangers from the picture. There is also a blink detection system which will let you know when one of the subjects has blinked and you must take the picture again. This setting is turned on by default and you can manually deactivate it. The Nikon CoolPix S550 digital camera does not come with overriding metering modes and there are 4 focus areas that you can choose from: face priority, manual, center and auto.



The manual mode is the one that brings the focusing square on the display and you can move it around using the included navigation pad. Noise is a delicate subject on a digital camera and the noise test is very important. The Nikon CoolPix S550 digital camera shows signs of noise starting from ISO 200. When choosing ISO 1600 or ISO 2000 you will see a serious drop in quality and the resolution will be lowered when you decide to go with these settings.