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More…The Nikon Coolpix L10 ($120 as of 5/10/07) is an excellent value for a simple snapshot camera. Yet there's nothing cheap-looking about the L10: It has a stylish, thin-profile body that slides nicely into a pocket.
Nikon CoolPix L10 Silver Digital Camera (5.0MP, 2560x1920, 3x Opt, 7MB Internal Memory, SD/SDHC Card Slot)
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- Display
- Exposure
- Image Processor
- Included Hardware
- Included Software
- Lens
- Shutter
- Storage
- LCD Screen
- Exposure Controls
- Dimensions
- Power
- Flash
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Image Processor
| Number of image sensor pixels | 5 megapixels |
| Image sensor | CCD |
| Maximum horizontal image resolution | 2560 |
| Maximum vertical image resolution | 1920 |
| Image sensor quantity | 1 |
| Image format | JPEG |
| White balance | 0 |
Lens
| Accessory Lens | No |
| Lens Model | 3X Zoom-Nikkor ED Lens |
| Telephoto Aperture Maximum | 5.2 mm |
| Wide-Angle Aperture Maximum | 2.8 mm |
Exposure Controls
| Maximum shutter speed | 2000 |
| Minimum shutter speed | 4 |
| Bulb setting | 0 |
| ISO equivalencies |
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| Exposure settings | 0 |
| Exposure compensation range | 0 |
| Number of scene modes | 15 |
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Pros
Sleek, pocketable design
Face detection auto focus
Cons
No viewfinder; small LCD
Zoom control is difficult to operate
Bottom Line
The L10 is sleek and offers custom white balance, panorama mode, and face recognition auto focus. But the LCD is small.
Nikon Coolpix L10
CoolPix L10 Silver Digital Camera (5.0MP, 2560x1920, 3x Opt, 7MB Internal Memory, SD/SDHC Card Slot) Review, by Tracey Capen June 14, 2007
This 5-megapixel camera has a 3X optical zoom that's suitable for basic point-and-shoot photography. It has 15 scene modes for various lighting conditions, and a face-priority mode that optimizes the automatic focus for shots of human faces. As you'd expect in a low-cost camera, it lacks many advanced features, such as exposure bracketing, spot metering, and manual focus, though it does offer white-balance calibration.
I liked using the L10, for the most part. Despite its smallish size, it felt comfortable, even when shooting one-handed. Startup is a quick 2 seconds. Everything is kept simple--there's no mode dial, for example, just a slide switch for selecting full auto mode, the scene mode selected in the menus, or movie mode. Key controls consist of three clearly labeled buttons: photo review, photo delete, and menu display. The camera's menu is short and easy to navigate, and when you're using the menu, pressing the zoom button pops up an all-too-brief description of each menu function. The descriptions for the scene modes are more valuable. Unfortunately, I found that the zoom control races from wide to telephoto (or vice versa) so quickly that it's hard to set a precise, intermediate focal length.
The photos I took looked nearly as sharp as those produced by my 5.1-megapixel Olympus 5060 (which, a few years ago, was state-of-the-art and five times more expensive). In lab tests conducted by the PC World Test Center, the L10 earned an overall image quality score of Good on indoor shots. It earned high marks for exposure and color accuracy, but low ones for sharpness and distortion. In my informal shots, colors tended to look a little weak. In auto mode, an outdoor scene with lots of sky and water had a bluish tint. Switching to Daylight color balance made the whites a little brighter. An indoor flash photo had better colors when I switched to the camera's Party/Indoor scene mode.
Mostly because of the L10's small size, you do not get an eye-level viewfinder. Fortunately, the LCD screen can be used to frame your photos even in bright sunlight, though it has a smallish size, at 2 inches. The camera's 7 megabytes of internal memory will hold only about seven shots at the highest resolution setting, but it's handy for capturing must-have photos when your SD Card (not included) is full or when you forget to put the card back in the camera, as I have done numerous times.
The L10 runs on two AA cells, and it performed well in our battery tests, lasting 343 shots (recently tested digital cameras averaged 260 frames).
Included on the CD-ROM is PictureProject, a mediocre application for organizing and editing your photos. The software could benefit greatly from a better tool for managing color balance.
Overall, the Coolpix L10 is an attractive package if you're looking for a simple camera that has a low price and that will fit in your pocket.
Tracey Capen
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PCWorld Lab Results
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Performance
| Battery Life (minutes) | 188.25 |
| Battery Life Score | Very Good |
| Image Quality Score | Good |
| Image Quality, Color | 71.4 |
| Image Quality, Distortion | 40.2 |
| Image Quality, Exposure | 71.6 |
| Image Quality, Exposure--Flash | 57.9 |
| Image Quality, Exposure--Normal | 77.4 |
| Image Quality, Overall | 68.6 |
| Image Quality, Sharpness | 31.8 |
| Number of Batteries | 2 |
| Number of Shots | 343 |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for Nikon CoolPix L10 Silver Digital Camera (5.0MP, 2560x1920, 3x Opt, 7MB Internal Memory, SD/SDHC Card Slot)
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Reviewed by: Forrest
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: value,pic quality,size,cost.software,
Weaknesses: lCD size,zooms to fast,needs ,standard USB size
Overall: Excellant value and ecellant acemera for the money.Good for yourng person or for car or purse.Be carefull of cold weather hot weather storage
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Reviewed by: twilliams85712
Strengths: small size, good price
Weaknesses: auto-focus
Overall: I bought this camera after my old camera died while on vacation. I didn't do a lot of research so I went for a small cheap camera and that is what this is. If you are looking for a small camera to keep handy this is worth a look.However, I hate the auto-focus on this camera. It often fails to work, when it does it is slow. When the image is dark you might as well forget it. The image quality is good, not great. I keep this little guy in my backpack where ever I go, so I always have a camera handy and for that its small size and price more than make up for its other shortcomings.
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Reviewed by: swinghard
Strengths: Compact size, inexpensive, easy to operate for the beginner
Weaknesses: Weak performance in low light, slow recycle time between shots
Overall: This is a fairly nice camera for the money. It would be a nice camera to introduce a person to digital photography. It did not meet my personal needs due to very poor performance in low light situations and slow recycle times. But I gave it to my daughter to learn photography on and its perfect for her. I would recommend this camera for that purpose only - as a teaching aid.
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Reviewed by: SC4SHURA
Strengths: Affordable. Compact.
Weaknesses: Slow. Mediocre quality. Small LCD.
Overall: CoolPix L10 Silver Digital Camera has very low-end specs. Its LCD is small, it has only 5MP, and internal memory is almost useless. Nevertheless it will make a very good starter digital camera, because it is cheap but from a reliable maker, Nikon. This camera cannot yield crispy photos, and movie file has noises. If you don't like these problems, it would be better to avoid this camera and invest more money on other cameras.
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Reviewed by: jensen18
Strengths: Size, Price,
Weaknesses: Autofocus, low light performance
Overall: I wanted an inexpensive camera that I could grab when I didn't want to have to lug around the camera bag with the 12x zoom camera. This camera is small enough to be carried in a coat or pants pocket without much notice. When off, a door closes over the lens so you don't need a separate camera bag/cover. Provided enough light the camera takes nice pictures. Indoors and areas without ample amounts of light can be an issue. I don't like the fact that there is no view finder (I hate holding the camera out to compose the shot) but understand the lack due to the size and LCD. The biggest issue I have with this camera is the autofocus. It takes a long time searching to get focus lock and many times will not successfully focus. I have missed several shots due to the autofocus searching. All in all, for the price and quality of the shots I do get, this is a good camera.
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Reviewed by: WolverineX
Strengths: Lightweight, Compact, Good Images. QuickTime Video Mode with Audio
Weaknesses: A little slow in reponse
Overall: I'm a DSLR user and had an old Olympus D-510 that I hated carrying around because of its size. Found this on sale for a great price and had to replace my Olympus as it's not practical to carry my D70 around. This is nice and compact with good quality images. Popped in a 2GB SanDisk Ultra II Secure Digital Card Plus USB Adapter (see my other review) and I have tons of space. According to the camera, I can take over 700 pictures at the highest resolution or over 3 hours of QuickTime Video with audio. Very easy to use and the display is sharp with good battery life considering the LCD is the only way to shoot an image as there is no viewfinder. Found a nice case on eBay to pop this in and they both fit into my pocket.
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