Introduction:

The COOLPIX S220 is an entry-level digital camera that offers basic shooting features, easy to use and is extremely slim & weightless to lug along. Available in several eye-pleasing colors, this camera is fairly inexpensive and does not demand any special skills or too much of your time to achieve the desired results. 

Features:

Shaky pictures, purple fringing, hazing etc are some of the problems that plague the pictures usually. The COOLPIX S220 is endowed with a nexus of features to rectify these anomalies. The Electric VR Image Stabilization feature minimizes the blurredness by adjusting the ISO range and the shutter speed whenever the camera experiences a shake or a bump. To catch the fast action sequences going on in the night the camera supports High ISO 2000 which can be a boon for party animals. If this is not enough, you can use the D-lighting feature that will make your dark pictures also come alive with brightness.

Pros:

• Get gorgeous blow-ups of 16 x 20 inches size of 10.0 Megapixels resolution. Get creative while trimming the photos and see how everybody will envy your shooting skills.

• Specialty of this camera is that it comes equipped with the unique NIKKOR 3x optical zoom lens that can be found in the Nikon products alone. This specially designed lens aims to achieve the perfection of image that has been the stronghold of bigger cameras alone till now.

• Nikon being an established brand has the credit of creating & witnessing a plethora of technical innovations that has changed the face of optical brilliance for good. The product of one such innovation is its EXPEED Image processor that was customized for enhancing the COOLPIX series products.

Cons:

• The picture quality fails to live up to our expectations as they turn out to be grainy and of inaccurate colors often.
• Its delayed shutter lag leads to the slower performance of the camera.
• There is no real Image stabilization technology in this camera.
• There is no AF-Assist lamp in this camera and while shooting in low light settings it gets unbearably noisy.

Pricing Range:  Make this amazing camera yours by paying just 126$-149$. Available in varied colors of Silver, Plum, Black, Blue, Magenta& Green!

Final Verdict: The COOLPIX S220 is meant for those budget-conscious people who are just looking for a basic camera to shoot pictures and expect nothing else. Stripped of manual controls and photo details this camera fails to please us with its output in the end. A good camera for the youngsters who haven’t handled one before!