NIKON COOLPIX S4300
DIGITAL CAMERA
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Nikon COOLPIX S4300 Digital Camera, retail $129.95 (www.nikonusa.com...)
Manufactured by Nikon (www.nikonusa.com)
Last updated 11-09-13



This product does not emit light of its own, so the standard review format will not be used and the product will not be assigned a rating. This website is mostly about light-emitting products, but occasionally, you'll see non-light emitting products on it too if it's something I use regularly and/or really like (this camera meets both of those criteria!). It *DOES* have several LEDs in it, so it's at least a bit germane to the theme of this website.

The Nikon COOLPIX S4300 Digital Camera is a fairly nice digital camera -- much better than many actually.

It comes in a mainly plastic body, and feeds from a special rechargeable Li:ION battery (which is included).

This camera has many special features; please go to this link to read about them.
Among them however that I'll gladly publish here is the fact that it has a 16MP (16 million pixels; effectively 16,440,000 pixels!) CCD imager -- making this camera capable of producing highly detailed photographs that will "blow up" nicely!!!
In comparison, my Canon Powershot G3 Digital Camera (which I thought was a very nice camera; the G3 is the camera that went to pot in mid-2012 that this Nikon replaces) has a CCD imager size of just 4MP (4,000,000 pixels).


Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



Charge its battery first (see directly below), and THEN you can go shoot those dragonfly nymphs (larvae).

For true "point and shoot" functionalty, just follow these two easy steps:
  1. Press & release the small "Power" button on the top surface of the camera.
  2. Frame your subject, and press & release the larger button just to the right of the Power button.
Turn the camera off when you're finished using it by pressing & releasing the small "Power" button on the top surface of the camera again.

This camera has a female receptacle on its underside for a ŧ" 20 threads-per-inch (ISO 1222) "standard" tripod mounting screw.

Since this camera has so many features and I don't feel like writing a book this morning, please go here to read the manual (it's in .PDF format, so you'll need to have Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader installed on your pee-cee or MAC).



To charge the Li:ION battery in the Nikon COOLPIX S4300 Digital Camera when it starts going down the tube, plug the USB cable normally going to your computer into the female receptacle for it on the furnished "wall wart" charger, and plug the other end into the USB receptacle on the underside of the camera's body as if you are going to transfer photographs and/or videos (it only fits one way, so there is no danger of accidentally connecting it backward). Flip the AC prongs out from the "wall wart" and then plug it into any standard (in north America anyway) 110 volts to 130 volts AC 60Hz wall receptacle (or "wall outlet" or even "wall socket" if you prefer).

You may also charge the camera's battery by plugging the USB cable into your computer (as though you were downloading photographs and/or videos).

A yellow-green LED n the camera's back will flash at this point.

When the charge cycle is complete (the LED will stay off), unplug the cord from the camera and then unplug the "wall wart" from the AC receptacle.



The Nikon COOLPIX S4300 Digital Camera is designed to be used as a digital camera (and I should say not exactly an "el-cheapo" model either!), not as flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused; so I won't try to drown it in the cistern (toliet tank), bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a carport, let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitty cats, my kitty cat, or my sister's kitty cat spring a leak (uranate) all over it, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium or large ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

In fact, those photographs (all but the first taken by this very unit), and the spectrographic analyses located directly below may very well be it.



Photograph of its LCD display.



The first photograph to come out of the new camera; no zoom was used.



The second photograph to come out of the new camera; 24x zoom (6x optical plus 4x digital) was used.
As you might be able to tell, it zoomed in on one of my "Viva Piņata" posters.



The following images are some of the on-camera filters that are available; this is the control photograph which has not been retouched in any way.



"Pen" (yes, this camera has a touch-sensitive LCD!)



Black & white.



Fisheye lens simulation*.



Brightness filter of some sort.



Softening filter.



Perspective filter (it goes the other way too).



This is the control photograph for the first of several "frame" effects which has not been retouched in any way.



This is one of several borders achieved by using the in-camera "frame" feature.



This is another one of several borders achieved by using the in-camera "frame" feature.



This is another one of several borders achieved by using the in-camera "frame" feature.
This "frame" appears to have been designed to look like a photograph produced by a Polaroid SX-70 instant camera.



This is another one of several borders achieved by using the in-camera "frame" feature.



* This is the control photograph for the second use of the "fisheye lens" filter (using a different subject) which has not been retouched in any way.



And this is the "fisheye lens" filter used on the above photograph.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green "Power" LED.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green "Power" LED; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 560nm and 580nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 574.296nm.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the orange "Auto focus" LED.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the orange "Auto focus" LED; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 600nm and 620nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 606.611nm.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green "Charge cycle in progress" LED.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green "Charge cycle in progress" LED; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 560nm and 580nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 569.577nm.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen displaying something close to "white".


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the LCD screen actually displaying "white".

USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.



This is video of a brief but rather intense thunderstorm that occurred in Federal Way WA. USA at ~6:15am PDTb on 07-20-12. You can hear the heavy rainfall on our carport roof throughout the entire duration of this video; you can also hear the rumble of thunder several times. Soon after this video was shot, I shot another that featured a very close lightning strike and an extremely loud clap of thunder less than 1 second after the flash, but the video was accidentally deleted before I could publish it on YouTube.

I believe the video that you're watching now was shot in HD 720P resolution, so you should still see a relatively clear picture if you select, "Full Screen" from YouTube.

This video is approximately 331.27745656249 megabytes (331,535,018 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than one thousand six hundred fifty six (!) minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
It is definitely ***NOT*** dial-up friendly!!!






TEST NOTES:
Unit was donated by an anonymous person after my old faithful Canon Powershot G3 Digital Camera (donated by a website viewer on 10-12-06 {or "12 Oct 2006" if you prefer}) went down the tube (which itself was donated after my Polaroid PDC700 went to pot) and was purchased using a Costco Gift Card (which he sent for that very purpose) at 11:53am PDT on 06-27-12 (or "27 Jun 2012" or even "Jun 27, Twenty Stick-Very-Twirly-Stick" if you prefer).


UPDATE: 11-07-13
This camera has been stolen (I believe that I accidentally left it it on the seat of my PrideŽ Celebrity X3 Scooter after coming home from flying my HuaLe HL803 Piper J3 Cub NC26170 R/C Airplane on 11-04-13), so the new (but still dreadul), "" icon has been appended to its listings on this website to indicate that this camera has been stolen from me.

However, I ordered a Nikon Coolpix S3500 on the evening of 11-05-13, so I shouldn't be out of commission for too long.


UPDATE: 11-09-13
The camera has inexplicably turned up, so I can now remove that horrible icon from its listings on this website!


    MANUFACTURER: Nikon
    PRODUCT TYPE: Digital camera
    LAMP TYPE: LED
    No. OF LAMPS: At least 3 LEDs
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Several momentary pushbutton switches
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 1x Li:ION battery; 3.70 volts 700mAh
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistant at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: FOR CHRIST SAKES NO!!!
    ACCESSORIES: Carrying strap, carrying case, 4GB memory card, USB cable, A/V cable, battery, charger, stylus, two CD-ROMs
    SIZE: 58.9mm H x 99.5mm W x 20mm D (2.4" x 3.8" x 0.90")
    WEIGHT: 4.880 oz (138.30g)
    COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
    WARRANTY: 1 year

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Product is not intended to be used as a light emitter,
    so the conventional "star" rating will not be used.





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