I have a Nikon S10 too, I like it better. My S10 has a 10X zoom plus SLR.
Nikon's Wi-Fi cameras are here, though perhaps a few moments too soon. The promise is great: it's a camera that's wirelessly connected to your computer, even when the computer is in the other room. The execution—in the shape of the Nikon CoolPix P2 I tested—still needs tweaking.
There are some cool things you can do with a Wi-Fi camera. The biggest oohs and aahs come from shooting pictures that are immediately transferred to a slideshow playing on a computer, with music and all. More mundane but equally useful are a variety of wireless picture transferring and printing options—just select a shot you like and send it to the computer or printer without ever taking your hands off your camera. You can send shots to any printer connected to a computer, but with the optional PD-10 Wireless Print Adapter ($50; out in mid-October), you can also wirelessly send shots straight to any PictBridge-enabled printer.
The trouble with the Nikon Coolpix S560 10MP Camera CoolPix P2 is that it lacks the range and battery life to effectively carry out its missions. Over the Labor Day weekend, I walked around the inside and outside of the house with the camera, for the most part getting a reasonable connection to our Wi-Fi network (a router located in my home office). But when I took the P2 and laptop out to the deck to create a live slideshow there, the camera had an awful time. OK, so Wi-Fi can be tricky, but at the same deck table both an Apple PowerBook and an HP Pavilion notebook had no problems connecting to the Internet via the same wireless network.
Every time the camera would lose the connection, it forgot what I was doing. I would have to wade through a bunch of menus just to get back into the photo shoot-and-transfer mode I'd been using. And after some time playing with the camera in Wi-Fi mode, certainly less than an hour, I was alerted that the battery was drained. Maybe I shouldn?t be too bothered ? after all, I was heavily testing the camera?s wireless features, which isn?t necessarily typical use. Still, it would be nice to know I could get through an entire birthday party while shooting in Wi-Fi mode.
I hate to condemn a first-of-its-kind technology because of herky-jerky behavior. Every product goes through a streamlining, an evolution. Nowadays, the product itself can be updated as improvements are made, and I suspect Nikon is hard at work trying to right some of the wrongs of its new release. The camera is surprisingly affordable for carrying this new capability; after all, in addition to being a wireless pioneer, it?s a solidly performing 5.1-megapixel camera with 3.5x optical zoom and a lot of great automatic and manual controls. (There?s also an 8-megapixel version, the CoolPix P1.) Am I saying go out and buy one? No, but stay tuned, because when the time is right, I think Wi-Fi cameras will be quite desirable.
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I bought this camera for my daughter this summer, so it is less than three months old. She turned it on a few days ago and got a “lens error’ message. I sent it back to Nikon a week ago and haven’t heard from them. This is the second Nikon point-and-shoot I’ve bought because of their excellent reputation in the SLR world. The other broke after 13 months, and they wanted as much to fix it as I paid for the camera. I will never buy a Nikon point-and-shoot again. I had an inexpensive Kodak for six years, before it ran into problems.
Great camera overall, good features, good mega pixels, have used it for 2 months and have no complaints
I bought my Coolpix S560 on line in June to take on a family trip to Colorado in July. I hadn’t used it twice when I noticed the battery lid cover at the bottom of the camera housing wouldn’t stay closed! I had removed the battery one time to recharge it, and was careful not to force anything back in where it didn’t belong. I was sure to insert the battery into the slot and to place the little orange spring-loaded flange that keeps it down back over the battery properly. So there I was at Rocky Mtn. Nat’l Park asking a park ranger at Alpine visitor center for a rubber band to wrap around the camera housing to keep the dang plastic battery cover closed! In desperation I used the rubber band make-shift “repair” until I got home to contact Nikon repair in New York. After I found out how to ship the camera to them, about 10 days later I got an email response it would cost me around $55 plus shipment back to get this malady repaired. When I wrote back to find out why there would be a charge for what I believed was an obvious design flaw to this camera, their reply was the damage HAD to be from an external force as they had received NO prior reported problems with this camera. Bull hockey! In a very weak moment, I relented and approved the repair as what other cheaper option did I have? $75 later (did I say I had to pay P/H costs to have it shipped back?). O.K. about a month after first contacting Nikon of this flaw, I had my Coolpix S560 back. Three months later we went on a Caribbean cruise, and guess what? This poor excuse for a camera had the exact same problem occur to its ultra cheapo plastic lip that is supposed to hold the battery cover down. It doesn’t! Do not waste your money on this or any Nikon camera costing less than $200 is my advice! I am not even going to contact Nikon repair to only receive their same lame excuse for not repairing their cheaply-designed and made Coolpix camera! That would result in me paying more in repairs than what this camera originally cost me this June.
P.S.: Guess what, Nikon? A few weeks ago I received an email from another dissatisfied Coolpix customer (after posting my complaint on-line) who had experienced the EXACT same problem with your cheaply made-in-who-knows-where, Nikon camera!
I have a Nikon S10 too, I like it better. My S10 has a 10X zoom plus SLR.
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