Features
Inputs and Outputs Notes
Supplied Software

Features

LCD Monitor: The Coolpix S1 has a 2.5" amorphous silicon TFT LCD monitor featuring approximately 110,000 pixels and a five-level brightness adjustment. The LCD monitor has approximately 97% horizontal and vertical coverage in the shooting mode.

Optics: All Coolpix digital cameras feature the exclusive Zoom-Nikkor lens for superb image quality. Every aspect of the lens manufacturing process is controlled by Nikon. Each Zoom-Nikkor lens is designed for the specific camera and CCD combination. The Coolpix S1 has a 3x, Zoom-Nikkor ED lens that is equivalent to a 35-105mm lens in 35mm photography. Coupled with a digital zoom of 4x, the Coolpix S1 has a total zoom of about 12x.

Multi-Selector: The multi-selector, a round 4-way button on the back panel, allows you to navigate through the camera's menus and make selections for most camera settings.

Image Sensor: The Coolpix S1 features a 7.182mm diagonal (1/2.5"), CCD imager with a total pixel count of approximately 5.36-million pixels. The effective pixel count is 5.1-million.

Built-in Memory: The camera has a built-in 12MB internal memory for storing still images and movies with sound.

Optional Recording Media: In addition to the built-in memory, images can be recorded onto SD (Secure Digital) Memory cards. When an SD Memory card is inserted in the camera, the images are automatically recorded onto the card. When no card is inserted, the images automatically record to the internal memory.

Image Quality: The largest image size (2592 x 1944) offers a high quality setting which doesn't compress the file as much, resulting in better picture detail, suitable for enlargements or high quality prints.

Cool Station: The Coolpix S1 includes the Cool Station stand for easy docking with your power supply, computer, and TV. The camera snaps onto the Cool Station and the AC adapter, USB cable, and A/V output cable plug into the back.

Image Size: The Coolpix S1 records still images in JPEG format and movies in QuickTime format. You have a choice of 5 still image size options and 3 movie size options:

Shooting Modes: Using the menu, you can set the camera to suit your level and style of photography. The shooting mode choices include:

• Auto Mode: The Auto Mode is a simple point-and-shoot mode in which the majority of camera settings are controlled by the camera, this mode is recommended for first-time users of digital cameras
• Scene Mode: The camera gives you the option of 13 Scene Modes, camera settings are automatically optimized to the selected scene, Scene Modes include:
  • Party/Indoor: Shots include details of the background behind the main subject or the effects of candlelight and other indoor background lighting
  • Beach/Snow: Vividly captures the brightness of subjects such as snow fields, beaches or sunlit expanses of water
  • Sunset: Preserves deep hues seen in sunsets and sunrises
  • Dusk/Dawn: Preserves the colors seen in the weak natural light before sunrise and after sunset
  • Night Landscape: Slow shutter speeds are used to produce stunning night landscapes
  • Close Up: Used to capture vivid colors in close-up shots of flowers, insects and other small objects, with the background artistically blurred
  • Museum: Use indoors where flash photography is prohibited or in other settings in which you do not want to use flash
  • Fireworks Show: Slow shutter speeds are used to capture the expanding burst of light from fireworks
  • Copy: Provides clear pictures of text or drawings on a white board, business card, or other printed material
  • Back Light: Use when light is coming from behind your subject
  • Panorama Assist: Use to take a series of photographs that you will later join to form a single panoramic scene
  • Underwater: Use when taking underwater photographs using the optional WP-CP5 waterproof case
  • Voice Recording: Creates a digital audio recording
• Assist Modes: The camera gives you 4 "Assist" modes to help you compose your shots, framing guides appear in the monitor to suggest a position in the frame to place your subject
  • Portrait Assist: Main subject stands out clearly while background details are softened, lending the composition a sense of depth, includes Portrait Left, Portrait Right, Portrait Couple, Portrait Close-up, and Portrait Figure framing assist modes
  • Landscape Assist: Use for vivid landscape shots that enhance outlines, colors and contrast in such subjects as skyscrapers and forests, includes Landscape, Scenic View, Architecture, Group Right and Group Left framing assist modes
  • Sports Assist: High shutter speeds freeze motion for dynamic sports shots, includes Sports, Sport Spectator and Sport Composite options
  • Night Portrait Assist: Provides a natural balance between the main subject and the background when shooting portraits against a backdrop of night scenery, includes Portrait Left, Portrait Right, Portrait Couple, Portrait Close-up, and Portrait Figure framing assist modes
• Movie Mode: Record movies at 15 frames per second with sound, select TV Movie (640 x 480), Small Movie (320 x 240), Smaller Movie (160 x 120), or Time-lapse (up to 1800 stills at specified intervals)

Noise Reduction: At slower shutter speeds, noise in the form of randomly-spaced, brightly colored pixels may appear in pictures, particularly in shadows. Pictures taken using Dusk/Dawn and Night Landscape modes are processed to reduce noise.

Setup Mode: Setup allows you to display the setup menu to perform the following tasks:

• Welcome Screen: Choose the welcome screen displayed when the camera is turned on
• Date: Set the time and date
• Monitor Settings: Hide or display the monitor indicators and adjust brightness
• Date Imprint: Imprint pictures with the date and/or time of recording
• AF Assist: Choose whether the AF-assist illuminator lights when the subject is poorly lit
• Sound Settings: Choose Shutter, Startup, and Button sounds on or off, and select the volume
• Blur Warnings: Choose whether or not to perform a camera shake check
• Auto Off: Choose how long the camera will remain on before turning off to save power, 30 seconds, 1, 5, or 30 minutes
• Format Memory/Card: Formats internal memory or memory cards for use in the camera
• Language: Choose from twelve languages for camera menus and messages
• Interface: Set USB mode (PTP or Mass Storage), Video Mode (NTSC or PAL), and Auto transfer (on or off)
• Reset All: Reset camera settings to their default values
• Menus: Choose the type of camera menus (Text or Icon)
• Firmware Version: Displays the current firmware version

Face Priority AF: The Face Priority AF mode assists you in photographing portraits (from the waist up) of up to three people. When in the Portrait Assist mode, the Face Priority AF mode will automatically find the subject's face and focus on that, ensuring a great portrait every time.

Menu Help: The menu features a Help button that instantly displays an explanation of functions on the Main Menu.

Sensitivity: Sensitivity is the digital equivalent of film speed. When set to Auto, the sensitivity is equivalent to ISO 50 under normal conditions. When lighting is poor, the camera will automatically increase sensitivity, permitting faster exposures, and minimizing blur caused by inadvertent camera movement. You can also manually choose 50, 100, 200, or 400 ISO settings.

White Balance: White balance is used to preserve natural colors under different types of lighting. The white balance can be set to: Auto, Preset (manually measured for the current lighting condition), Daylight, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Cloudy, and Speedlight (with flash).

Exposure Compensation: You can alter the exposure from the value suggested by the camera, making pictures brighter or darker. You can adjust the exposure from -2.0 to +2.0 EV in 1/3 steps.

Continuous Shooting: You can choose one of four shooting modes:

• Single: One picture each time the shutter release button button is pressed
• Continuous: Takes pictures continuously while the shutter release button is held down, recorded at a rate of about 1.8 frames every second
• Multi-Shot 16: Each time the shutter release button is pressed, the camera takes 16 consecutive "thumbnail" images at a rate of about 2 frames per second, and arranges them into 4 rows of 4 images (648 x 486 pixels) in a single frame measuring 2592 x 1944 pixels
• Interval Timer: Pictures taken at a specified interval

Best Shot Selector (BSS): The BSS is recommended for situations in which inadvertent camera movement can produce blurred pictures, or when parts of the image are prone to under or over exposure. When BSS is on, the camera takes shots while the shutter-release button is pressed, to a maximum of ten. The images are compared and the sharpest picture is saved to the memory or memory card.

Color Options: There are 5 color effects options to choose from: Standard Color, Vivid Color, Black-and-White, Sepia, and Cyanotype.

Focus Range: The focus range is 1' to infinity in normal mode and 1.6" to infinity in Macro mode.

Flash Modes: The Coolpix S1 has a built-in Speedlite flash with a range of 1' to 8'2" (W) and 1' to 4'7"(T). You can choose from the following flash modes:

• Auto: Flash fires automatically when lighting is poor

• Auto with Red-eye Reduction: Pre-flash fires before main flash to reduce red-eye effect

• Flash Cancel: Flash will not fire, even when lighting is poor

• Anytime Flash (fill flash): Flash will fire whenever a picture is taken

• Slow Synch: Auto flash combined with slow shutter speeds

In-Camera Red-Eye Fix: If the camera detects red-eye after the pre-flash has fired, advanced red-eye reduction processing is used to further reduce red-eye, slightly increasing the time required before the next picture can be taken.

Metering: The Coolpix S1 utilizes a 256-segment matrix metering method linked to the auto focus area, comparing measurements from multiple areas of the frame with a library of typical compositions to produce optimal exposure for the entire image.

D-Lighting: D-Lighting can be used to brighten dark or backlit subjects. While playing back an image, you can select the D-Lighting function, apply it, and save the corrected image without harming the properly exposed areas of the image.

Voice Memos: Using the camera's microphone, you can add a voice memo to a still picture. Voice memos are recorded as long as the shutter release is held down, to a maximum length of 20 seconds.

Playback Menu: The playback menu contains the following options:

• Print Set: Select pictures for printing on a DPOF and PictBridge compatible devices
• Slide Show: View pictures in an automatic slide show with about three seconds between pictures
• Delete: Delete all or selected pictures
• Protect: Protect selected pictures from accidental deletion
• Transfer Marking: Mark all or selected pictures for transferring to a computer
• Small Pic: Create a small copy of a picture, you choose the size of the new picture
• Copy: Transfer images from internal memory to memory card or vice versa

Thumbnail Playback: During playback, you can view multiple thumbnail images, 4 or 9 at a time. While these "contact sheets" are displayed, you can use the multi-selector to highlight individual pictures. Highlighted pictures can be displayed full frame or deleted, if desired.

Playback Zoom: During playback, you can zoom in on a single photo to a maximum of 10x. Once the image is zoomed, you can use the multi-selector to scroll around to non-visible portions of the image. You can record a new picture of the cropped image by pressing the shutter release button.

Printing Pictures: You can print pictures stored in the internal memory or on the memory card by using the Print Set option in the playback menu. Using DPOF (Digital Print Order Form), you can designate which images to print, and how many copies to print. Pictures can be printed as followed:

• Printer or Photo Lab: Insert the memory card into a printer or take the memory card to a digital photo lab
• PictBridge-compatible Printer: Connect the camera to a PictBridge-compatible printer via USB cable
• Transferring to Computer: Transfer the images to a computer before printing them

Power Requirements: The Coolpix S1 comes with a rechargeable EN-EL8 lithium ion battery. The battery has an estimated life of approximately 200 shots (under CIPA standard industry tests). It takes approximately 2 hours to fully charge the EN-EL8 battery.

Auto Off: When the camera is operated on battery power, the Auto Off mode will automatically turn off the monitor to reduce the drain on the batteries if no operations are performed for the length of time specified in the Auto Off menu. The time limit for the Auto Off mode can be set to 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes or 30 minutes. When powered by an optional AC adapter, the camera will enter standby mode if no operations are performed for 30 minutes.

Inputs and Outputs Notes

Location: The camera snaps onto the Cool Station stand and all the connections are made on the back of the stand.

Audio-Video Output: The supplied Audio/Video cable runs from the stand (3.5mm mini-jack) to your TV (RCA composite video and RCA mono audio). Note: The video output is NTSC or PAL compatible.

USB: The stand connects to your computer using the included USB cable, allowing you to download pictures to your hard drive.

Power: The AC adapter also connects to the Cool Station stand to power the camera or charge the battery.

Supplied Software

PictureProject 1.5: The Coolpix S1 is equipped with Nikon PictureProject 1.5 software for Windows and Macintosh. The software offers the following features:

• Transfer and Catalog Pictures: Select pictures for transfer and catalog them into folders and collections
• Organize and View Pictures: Organize, protect, and tag pictures, view photo information, organize pictures by keyword
• Retouch Pictures: Edit pictures, adjust colors, crop, special effects, red-eye correction, sharpening outlines, D-lighting
• Design Mode: Change properties and layouts
• Share Pictures: Print, e-mail, burn discs, view on a TiVo DVR or slide show

System Requirements: In order to use Nikon PictureProject 1.5, your computer must have the following minimum requirements: