We'll admit we save our Nikon excitement for
the sort of gear that comes with "bad mother" stitched into its casing, but sometimes even our jaded souls can get intrigued by a compact. This particular slimline unit has an OLED touchscreen display, with the additional inclusion of multitouch and gesture support, which already gets it right up to speed on the latest trends. With a 5x optical zoom, 12 megapixel sensor, and 720p/30fps video, it's also no slouch on the spec sheet, but reviewers at
Photography Blog found a few shortcomings. The
Nikon S70 is said to be overly reliant on the 3.5-inch touch display for controls, and although the camera is both thin and ultrafast to start up, those benefits come at the greatest cost of all: image quality is only average, and noise handling is poor even at base ISO. We'll file this one in our "vivacious but vapid" archive while you busy yourself with reading the full review.
posted November 30th 2009 8:20AM
testing first post
i will wait for better pic quality:(
I received the S60 as a gift last year and had to sell it after a couple months as the image quality was absolutely terrible. Whoever is at the helm of Nikon's P&S division needs to be released back into the wild. The two largest complaints about the S60 were its image quality and the fact that it was overdependent on touch operation, nice to see they fixed neither issue and instead added more bullet points.
Why on earth do I want to put my fingers on the display?
Why do the majority of Nikon P&S Cameras suck?
Probably because Nikon doesn't take the P&S market serious. They figure those worried about image quality will just buy one of their dSLRs.
What do you expect? 12MP on a tiny camera? Nikon still doesn't get it. At least the competitors are moving towards less MP and/or better low-light sensitivity (Fuji's EXR, Canon's S90, etc). As for Nikon, they rather spend their money on Ashton Kutcher instead.
Sexy but vapid, eh? That explains why Ashton Kutcher is in all the advertisements.