Coolpix 8700: a new 8Mp digital camera from Nikon
The wave of Nikon´s press releases brought the announcement of the new 8Mp fixed-lens digital camera, Coolpix 8700. By appearance the novelty resembles Coolpix 5700 but differs by increased LCD and the new Zoom-Nikkor ED 8x optical lens.
Coolpix 8700 brief specs:
- 2/3" CCD, 8.31Mp, 8.0Mp effective
- Zoom-Nikkor ED, 14 elements in 10 groups, F2.8-4.2, 35-280mm (35mm equiv.), 4x digital zoom
- 5 shots at 3264x2448 @ 2.5fps
- 12 shooting modes
- 2-1/4000 s exposures
- Buffer for 5 frames
- Up to 3-minute movies at 640x480 @ 30 fps w/sound, 320x240 @ 15 fps w/sound, 320x240 @ 5 fps, Sepia, w/sound; 640x480 @ 30 fps w/o sound;
- Li-Ion EN-EL1 (up to 210 shots) or 2CR5 (up to 240 shots) batteries
- Compatible with COOLPIX lens (Fisheye / Wideangle / Telephoto) via adapter
- Continuous AF, Single AF, Manual focusing
- 50cm to inf. Normal and 3cm Macro focusing distance
- 3264x2448, 3264x2176 (3:2), 2592x1944, 2048x1536, 1600x1200, 1280x960, 1024x768, 640x480 resolutions
- NEF (Uncompressed RAW), TIFF-RGB, JPEG (EXIF 2.2) image and MOV (Motion JPEG) movie formats
- Programmed AE, Shutter-Priority AE, Aperture-Priority, Manual exposure modes
- 3 or 10 s timer
- Auto ISO (50-200), ISO 50, ISO 100, ISO 200, ISO 400
- Central 7-leaf shutter
- Auto, Preset, Daylight, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Cloudy, Speedlight, Shade white balance
- Built-in flash (0.5-4,1 m Wide, 0.5-2.7 m Tele)
- 1.8 LCD, 134K pixels, 97% (shooting), 100% (preview) coverage
- 0.44" EVF, 235K pixels
- -4 to +1m-1 dioptre correction
- Compact Flash Type I/II, Microdrive media
- USB 1.1, A/V Out interfaces
- 113x105x78mm size
- 480 g weight
- $899 MSRP
- To be shipped from February 2004
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