Nikon COOLPIX P80 10.1 megapixel black COOLPIX digital camera

10 megapixels + 18x digital zoom = powerful photos

Nikon's COOLPIX P80's gives you 10.1 megapixels for stunning prints as large as 20 x 30 inches. There's plenty of sharp resolution to capture the finest details, crop creatively, and produce incredible enlargements. An amazing 10x optical wide-angle Zoom-NIKKOR lens provides exceptional pictures. This lens is built on Nikon's proud heritage of producing precision camera optics that deliver superb color and razor-sharp results. This amazing lens offers unbeatable compositional freedom with its wide-angle (27mm) to super-telephoto coverage (486mm). You can photograph sweeping landscapes or zoom in to capture the action on the baseball or soccer field.

EXPEED image processor

A newly desiged EXPEED image processor ensures high-quality pictures with stunning color and sharpness. Nikon's comprehensive digital imaging processing concept incorporates the know-how and the technologies acquired throughout Nikon's long history of photographic and digital imaging development. EXPEED is customer-tuned for COOLPIX and renders natural-looking pictures of incredible quality and quick response so you won't miss that special moment.

Keep an eye on things

The bright 2.7" high resolution LCD, along with an electronic viewfinder, make it easy to compose and share your pictures with friends and family. The incorporation of the high-resolution electronic viewfinder enables you to see through the lens in any type of lighting condition.

Steady as she goes

Optical vibration reduction image stabilization compensates for camera shake to prevent blur and produce clearer, sharper results in lower light or unsteady conditions. In addition, the benefits of Nikon's VR system extends to faster framing on the monitor as well as smoother action when using the movie mode.

Expose yourself

Program, shutter-priority, aperture-priority, and manual exposure modes give you ultimate control over your pictures. The D-SLR-type mode dial on the top of the camera provides quick access to this greater personal and creative control. Now, you can adjust the camera's settings for any type of lighting conditions and get as creative as you want.

Low-light brilliance

Auto mode adjusts up to ISO 6400 and lets you keep shooting, even in lower light. With a light sensitivity range of up to ISO 6400 in manual control, this creates new opportunities to take sharper, more natural looking photos in lower light conditions. ISO 3200 and ISO 6400 settings are availalbe a 3MP or lower resolution.

The camera is quicker than the eye

The COOLPIX P80 features a sports continuous scene mode for shooting up to 13fps, up to 30 frames, when you set the resolution to 3MP or lower. These high-speed capture settings help you stay ahead of the action, whether it's a swift golf or baseball swing, or the speed of the soccer field. At 13fps, you'll capture all the action.

Quality control

Several Nikon image innovations are available with the COOLPIX P80. In-Camera Red-Eye Fix&trade automatically looks for and fixes most intances of red-eye. Face Priority AF, Nikon's face-finding technology, can quickly find and focus on up to 12 faces in a group portrait. And D-Lighting rescues pictures that are too dark for printing by enhancing the underexposed areas of the picture while not touching the properly exposed areas.

Make a movie

High quality TV movies with sound are now just a press of a button away with yoru COOLPIX P80. Record TV-quality movies with sound whose duration is only limited by the space available on your SD/SDHC card. Connect your camera to your TV, and you have instant home movies.

Included with purchase

Rechargeable Li-ion battery EN-EL5, battery charger, USB cable, audio video cable, strap, lens cap, COOLPIX software suite CD-ROM.

Comparison Specifications

10.1 megapixels (effective), 1/2.33" CCD sensor size
Approx. 50MB internal memory, also uses SD/SDHC memory cards (sold separately)
18x optical zoom lens
Exposure modes: programmed auto (P), shutter-priority (S), aperture-priority (A), manual (M), auto, scene
Flash modes: slow sync, red-eye reduction, flash cancel/flash off, auto, auto with red-eye reduction, anytime flash
Movie modes: movie with sound, time lapse movie
2.7" wide viewing angle TFT-LCD screen, 230,000 dots resolution
Hi-speed USB connection, NTSC/PAL video output

Additional Specifications

1.1 frames per second continuous shooting speed at full resolution
Highest ISO sensitivity: 6400, lowest ISO sensitivity: 64
Optical image stabilization
White balance: fluorescent, incandescent, flash, white balance preset, auto, daylight, cloudy
Scene modes: portrait, night portrait, sports, landscape, beach/snow, sunset, dusk/dawn, night landscape, museum, fireworks show
Lens specification: 4.7-84.2mm (equivalent with 35mm format picture angle of 27-486mm) f/2.8-4.5
Autofocus system: contrast AF, multi-area AF, 9 point autofocus
Focus modes: face-priority AF, auto, single-point AF mode, auto-area AF mode
Exposure lock, plus or minus 2 EV in steps of 1/3 exposure compensation
In-camera image editing: D-Lighting, small pic, distortion control

Manufacturer Specifications

Image sizes ranging from 3648 x 2736 pixels to 640 x 480 pixels
Playback functions: full frame, thumbnail (4, 9, or 16 segments), zoom, slideshow, sound playback
Viewfinder: 0.24" TFT LCD, approx. 230,000 dots with diopter adjustment
Built-in flash distance: 28 ft.
Voice memo function
Storage system: JPEG baseline compliant, can be selected from Size priority and Optmial quality
Movie storage system: AVI with WAV audio
Self-timer: 2 sec. or 10 sec.
Battery life (shots per charge): 250 shots (CIPA)
COOLPIX Software Suite CD-ROM included