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 Nikon L6: A compact Versatile Camera.Oct 07, 2006
By Anil Bakshi
"Anil"
Nikon L6: A compact Versatile Camera.
I have taken 200 pics and 12 videos in one week. A friendly camera, learning and opinion as follows:-
1. Colors: True and natural. Just captures the real colors. This is the best quality. You capture what you see.
2. Buttons and Functions: Simple, heuristic, no need to do a serious reading of the book.
3. Settings: The options are varied, good. Liked the video capture options very much i.e. for options for computer size image, TV size image and TV* image size. Videos on projection up to 5ftX 4 ft look good. For video presentations, Audio capture: has noise while play back on the camera. The noise is much lower when played on computer or projector. A steady background hiss. Mostly, because microphone faces forward, hence the commentary spoken from behind has poor noise to signal ratio. But it is fine.
4. Still Snaps; Good. A 3 MP size image is about 400 KB. Used for presentations. Lower resolution is also available. At high end, 6 MB it is perfect.
5. Body: Sturdy, compact. Impressive and austere, no unnecessary contours, labels, very somber looking.
6. LCD: 2.5 inch, in bright sun, the image is not visible, this is understandable.
7. No standard optical view finder. The LCD and Camera hibernates very quickly after 15 to 20 secs non use. Great on battery
8. Battery: 2 AAs cells. Great. This means one can use the camera right out of the box, no need to carry charger, no need to buy additional battery lithium for 40 to 50 $, when run out, just pop in fresh two AAs. Rechargeable AAs of 2700 mA are very good indeed. Carry 2 spare in office bag.
9. Video Zoom. All new digital compacts either do not have zoom whilst recording or the zoom jumps in multiples of 1x. This is jumpy. I miss the smooth step-less 4x optical to 4 x digital continuous 16x smooth zoom of my Kodak 4 MP. I tested: mostly all new compacts now have a zoom in video capture that goes boom boom 1x 2x 3x ....Can not fault Nikon for this.
10. What did I want? I wanted a compact traveling, high quality work camera, always in my laptop case, which is also great for the family/home pictures. I got that in Nikon L6.
45 of 45 found the following review helpful:
 Good solid camera.Nov 07, 2006
By Sammy7
Pros:
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1- Small and compact, yet not too small to be uncomfortable to hold. (Cameras are going back to being slightly bigger than credit cards to lower the effect of shaky hand and blurry images.
2- Uses AA batteries. Great lifespan with 2100mah NIMH rechargeable.
3- Picture quality especially in well lit surroundings is truly impressive. darker areas are not too bad either.
4- Movie clips upto 1GB in size is quite nice. This translates into about 18mins of recording on the highest setting.
5- Auto shut-off is relatively fast which avoids wasting battery life.
6- has a blur warning, to let u know if u have taken a picture which will be too blurry for printing. Does this immediately after taking the picture, so u can take a second one.
Cons:-
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1- Flash is a bit week. Pix taken in very dark places (bar, club,..etc) are a bit grainy, but nothing too excessive however.
2- There is no setting to review the pix taken without having the lens extend on power-up, or when connecting camera to a pc to download images. In other words the lens is always protruding from the camera when it powered up. This shortens the mechanisms life and makes the camera somewhat harder to pass on to other to see pictures. and can be damaged easily.
3- Cannot zoom movie clips when recording has started ( this is the case with most cameras these days).
4- Flash takes too long to recharge between pictures.
5- Becuase of the flash recharge delay, u are not able to review pictures already taken, until the flash has finished re-charging for the next picture.
I wanted to try and cover issues that other reviewers may not point out. I have to say however, except for "Con #5", the other issues aren't major to me. Overall I like the camera and don't regret buying it.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 i returned itJan 19, 2007
By jyst1
i bought this camera based on an older 3mp version a friend of mine has that i liked. the older model is far superior. this camera is slow to focus, slow to shoot, and slow to save. i took 5 pictures in a row of the same thing in the same lighting condition (indoor, medium light) on the automatic setting, all 5 pictures turned out different, only one turned out clear. i returned it the next day and bought a cannon that i am very happy with.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Good sharpness, slow shutter, focus and much noise in darkJan 15, 2007
By Y. C. LIU
I bought it for my wife's Christmas present. I compared pictures with ones I took from my CANON A70, which is out of market now. The sharpness is good. No doubt about both Nikon and Canon are good lens makers. But speed of focus and shutter is slow. Too much noise when shots taken under low light. I am doubting Nikon is not good in eletronical industry. If the price is your concern, Nikon Coolpix L6 is a choice. Otherwise, I would recommend CANON any models as a better pick.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Nikon Coolpix L6Jan 18, 2007
By Stephen J. Medeiros
Disappointing. This is my 4th digital camera and I thought this was an upgrade. At 6 megapixels, I expected sharp, crisp photos, but they are not. Writing to the card after each shot is very slow. Look for something else.
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