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REVIEWS / POINT AND SHOOT / NIKON INDIA PVT LTD

Nikon COOLPIX S570

26 Nov, 2009, 11:59 am IST | Dhruv Dutt | Point and Shoot

The Nikon COOLPIX S570 has nothing to write home about for its looks. With the dimensions of 92 x 56.5 x 21.5 mm and at 120g (without the battery), the S570 is definitely compact. But somehow, I was not too pleased with the looks of the COOLPIX S570. The plastic quality feels a bit cheap and the overall finish of the camera has nothing too appealing about it. The S570 comes in five different colors – black, blue, red, pink and silver.

Since the s570 doesn’t look too different from most cameras out there, the button placement of the COOLPIX is just the same as any other camera. The top side dominated by the shutter release button, with the zoom lever surrounding it and the power button. The facing side of the camera has a 2.7 – inch TFT screen, with anti–reflection coating, and adjacent to the screen are the controls for scene selection, album, 4-way navigation control with the ‘OK’ button between the menu and the delete button.

Recently we came across a few cameras which didn’t have any macros assigned to the 4-way navigation wheel. The S570 follows the standard shortcuts on the navigation console with flash, self timer, macro and exposure settings.

While conducting the test and taking test shots with the Nikon S570, the thing I complained about was the TFT screen. The screen on the S570 is not at all good, and the images look over exposed and the colors look faded. Also the brightness setting in the menu doesn’t help to improve the screen quality any better.

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