Nikon Coolpix S600 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The brand-new Coolpix S600 is another strong contender. The lens zooms back to 28mm, making it not quite as useful for wide-angle photography as the Lumix. But in my tests the S600 produced excellent images: crisp and detailed, with vivid colour. I also l

Review summary: The Nikon Coolpix S600 is a capable and speedy basic point-and-shooter, but at $300, it should offer more than a bare-bones feature set and so-so performance.

Pros: Slim body. Lightning-fast boot-up time. Variety of useful in-camera editing options.

Cons: Expensive. Limited feature set. Long lag time between shots. Daylight shots slightly muted. Significant barrel distortion. Mediocre face-detection performance.

Verdict: The Nikon Coolpix S600 is a capable and speedy basic point-and-shooter. But at $300, it should offer more than a bare-bones feature set and so-so performance.

Review summary: The Nikon Coolpix S600 is a 10 megapixel digital camera with a 4x, wide angle zoom lens. It has impressive start up and shutter delay times. The Coolpix S600 is small enough to fit in a pocket and like other Nikon cameras it is easy to use

Pros: Ease of use - wide angle lens - shutter lag times - camera start up time

Cons: Picture quality

Verdict: Despite a number of good points such as start up time, ease of use and shutter lag times I felt this camera did not hit the spot when it came to picture quality.

Review summary: ePHOTOzine forums will have you believe that to own a Nikon, you must also own a beard. Not so with the Coolpix S600 as Matt Grayson discovers with only four days stubble

Pros: Good build, Nice design, Great macro performance, Good colour rendition

Cons: Poor noise performance in noise test, Wrong f number selected in landscape, Don't like the plastic lens cover leaves

Verdict: The styling suggests a camera designed for the happy snapper while some of the features such as the build quality and 3cm macro feature lean towards the user looking to get that bit extra out of a camera