Nikon Coolpix AW100
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14 years ago
Nikon Coolpix AW100 Digital Camera Review
The Coolpix AW100 is remarkably good for Nikon's first venture into the rugged camera market. Its main strength is its range of features. Not only is is waterproof, shockproof and freezeproof, it comes with built-in GPS, full 1080p HD video recording and much more.
Pros:
- Feature packed
- Waterproof
- freezeproof and shockproof
- Unique
- Plenty of ways to be creative
- Good image quality
Cons:
- One of the more expensive rugged cameras
- Noise at lowest ISO setting
14 years ago
Nikon Coolpix AW100
As Nikon's first everything-proof camera the AW100 enters boldly with a body that is waterproof down to 10m, shockproof to 1.5m and freezeproof to -10C. Plus, this ultra-compact packs a built-in GPS, digital compass, world map and a 5X wide-angle optical zoom lens with image stabilization.
Pros:
- Great automatic white balance
- Nicely saturated colors
- Extremely low distortion
- Fine-stepped zoom
- Speedy GPS
- compass and world map
- Above average autofocus speed
- Fast power on and off times
- Excellent rugged and waterproof construction
Cons:
- Visible noise at all ISO settings
- Over-exposes often
- Strong edge softness
- Slow lens on wide-end
- Below average image stabilization
- Display not exposure-priority
- Impossible to setup video framing
- One second video recording delay
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