Recording Features

LCD Monitor: The Nikon Coolpix P6000 has a 2.7"  TFT LCD monitor featuring approximately 230,000 pixels, an anti-reflective coating and a five-level brightness adjustment. The LCD monitor has approximately 97% horizontal and 97% vertical coverage in the shooting mode, and approximately 100% horizontal and vertical coverage in the viewing mode.

Viewfinder: The Coolpix P6000 also features a real-image optical viewfinder with LED indication. The viewfinder has approximately 80% frame coverage vertically and horizontally.

13.93 Megapixels CCD With EXPEED Engine: The Coolpix P6000 features a 1/1.7-inch, high-density CCD imager with a total pixel count of approximately 13.93-million pixels. The effective pixel count is 13.5-million. Optimizing performance and color reproduction is an advanced new image-processing engine, EXPEED.

Optics: The Coolpix P6000 digital camera uses a Zoom-Nikkor glass lens for superb image quality. Every aspect of the lens manufacturing process is controlled by Nikon. The Zoom-Nikkor lens is designed for the specific camera and CCD combination. The Coolpix P6000 uses a 4x optical zoom (28-112mm), 4x digital zoom lens (16x total zoom) that is equivalent to a 28-448mm lens in 35mm photography. The camera even includes a Digital Zoom Crop feature which limits the digital zoom to the range at which image quality does not suffer.

Optical VR Image Stabilization: The camera's Optical VR Image Stabilization compensates for camera shake to prevent blur, producing clearer, sharper results in lower light or unsteady conditions. In addition, the benefits of Nikon's VR system extend to faster framing on the monitor and smoother action when using the movie mode.

Built-in Memory: The camera has a built-in 48 MB 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) or SDHC 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. The camera can support SD cards from 128MB up to 2 GB; and 4GB SDHC cards. You can copy pictures between the camera's internal memory and an inserted SD-card or vice versa

Image Size: The Coolpix P6000 records still images in JPEG or NRW (RAW) format, and movies with video in AVI format and sound recorded in WAV format. You have a choice of the following still image size options and movie options. Still images can be recorded in a 1:1, 3:2, 4:3, or 16:9 aspect ratio. Video is recorded in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Note: Movies can be as long as free space in the internal memory or the optional memory card allows. The maximum file size for a single movie is 2 GB.

Shooting Modes: You can choose one of the following continuous shooting modes:

• Single: The camera records one picture each time the shutter release button is pressed.
• Continuous: While the shutter-release button is held down, pictures are taken continuously at a maximum rate of about 0.9 frames per second. This rate is maintained for up to five pictures.
• Continuous Flash: While the shutter-release button is held down, the camera shoots three flash pictures at up to 0.8 frames per second. Once shooting ends, no additional pictures can be shot until built-in flash has charged.
• Multi-Shot 16: Each time the shutter release button is pressed, the camera takes 16 consecutive "thumbnail" images at a rate of about 1.1 frames per second, and arranges them into a single picture of 4 rows of 4 images each
• BSS: Best Shot Selector is recommended for shooting under low lighting without the flash, with the camera zoomed in or in other situations in which camera shake is likely to blur pictures. When BSS is enabled, the camera shoots up to ten pictures while the shutter-release button is held down. The sharpest picture (picture with the most detail) in the series is automatically selected and saved.
• Interval Timer Shooting: The camera shoots (up to 1,800 frames) automatically at specified intervals of 30 seconds or 1, 5, 10, 30 or 60 minutes.
• Self-timer: The camera is equipped with a ten or three second timer for self-portraits.

• Autofocus: The camera automatically adjusts focus according to distance to subject. You can use this when the distance from subject to lens is 1 foot 7inches or more.
• Infinity: Use this mode when shooting distant scenes through foreground objects such as windows or when shooting landscapes.
• Macro Close-Up: The Macro Mode is used for close-up shots. The camera can focus on objects as closes a 0.8 inches to the lens. The camera will focus continuously until the shutter-release button is pressed halfway.
• Manual Focus: The focus can be adjusted for any subject that is a distance of approximately 0.8 inches to infinity from the lens.

• Auto: The camera automatically select the focus area (one of nine) containing the subject closest to the camera.
• Face-Priority AF: This feature automatically finds the subject's face (up to 12 faces) and focuses on it to ensure superb portraits with crisp focus.
• Manual: This option is suited for situations in which the intended subject is relatively still and not positioned in the center of the frame.
• Center: The camera focuses on subject in center of frame when in Center mode.

Focus Lock: The Focus Lock feature is used to focus on off-centered subjects in the frame while shooting in Center AF mode.

AF-Assist Illuminator: If lighting is poor, the AF-assist illuminator may light to assist the focus operation when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway. The illuminator has a range of about 18 feet at the maximum wide-angle position and 10 feet inches at the maximum telescopic position. You can turn this function on or off.

Exposure Modes: You can set the camera to suit your level and style of photography. The mode choices include:

• Programmed Auto Mode: The Programmed Auto Mode is a simple point-and-shoot mode in which the majority of camera settings are controlled by the camera. The camera will automatically set the shutter speed and aperture. This mode is recommended for first-time users of digital cameras.
• Shutter-Priority Auto Mode: The Shutter-Priority Auto Mode allows you to choose the shutter speed and lets the camera select the aperture value for best results when freezing or blurring motion.
• Aperture-Priority Auto Mode: The Aperture-Priority Auto Mode allows you to choose the aperture value and lets the camera select shutter speed for best results when using to blur background or bring both foreground and background into focus.
• Manual Mode: The Manual Mode allows you to control exposure by adjusting the shutter speed and aperture manually. You can set the camera's shutter speed from 1/2,000 to 30 seconds and adjust the aperture value between F2.7 or F5.9.
• Scene Modes: The camera gives you the option of various Scene Modes. The camera settings are automatically adjusted to suit the selected scene. The Scene Modes include:
  • Portrait: Useful for photographs where you want the main subject to stand out clearly from the background.
  • Landscape: For vivid landscape shots that enhance outlines, colors, and contrast in such subjects as forests and skyscrapers.
  • Sports: A fast shutter speed freezes motion for dynamic sports shots.
  • Night Portrait: For shots that provide natural balance between the main subject and the background when shooting portraits under low lighting.
  • Party/Indoor: Shots include details of the background behind the main subject, or to capture 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: A slow shutter speed is 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 in other printed matter
  • Back Light: Use when light is coming from behind your subject or when your subject is in the shade but the background is brightly lit
  • Panorama Assist: Use to take a series of photographs that you will later join to form a single panoramic scene
• Movie Mode: Make movies with sound. You can select TV Movie 640 (640 x 480) at 15 frames per second (fps), TV Movie 640* (640 x 480) at 30 frames per second (fps), Small Size 320 (320 x 240) at 15 fps,  Sepia Movie 320 (320 x 240 sepia tone movies) at 15 fps, B&W Movie 320 (320 x 240 black and white tone movies) at 15 fps, and Time-Lapse Movie* (640 x 480 still image intervals joined into a silent movie) at 30 fps.

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.

ISO Settings: Sensitivity is the measure of how quickly the camera reacts to light. The higher the sensitivity, the less light needed to make an exposure. The camera features the following ISO settings - ISO 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 200, 3200, or 6400 or Auto (the auto range can be fixed).

Meter Modes: You can choose from the following Meter Modes to determine how the camera will meter exposure.

• Matrix: camera sets exposure for entire frame; recommended in most situations
• Center-Weighted: camera meters entire frame but assigns greatest weight to subject in center of frame; great for metering portraits by preserving background details while letting lighting conditions at center of frame determine exposure
• Spot: camera meters area shown by circle in center of frame and ensures that subject in metering target is correctly exposed even if background is much lighter or darker
• Spot AF Area: camera meters selected focus area; available only when a setting other than "Center" is selected for AF area mode

Auto Bracketing: Auto Bracketing is used to vary exposure by a select amount over a series of pictures when it is difficult to guess the correct exposure. You can set the camera to vary exposure by +/-0.3, +/-0.7 or +/-1.0 over your next three shots.

White Balance: You can set the White Balance to Auto, Daylight, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Cloudy, or Flash. You can also choose Preset White Balance and use a neutral-colored object as a reference to set the white balance under unusual lighting conditions.

Picture Control: When you are shooting your images, you can optimize your pictures by adjusting the following settings.

• Standard: standard processing for balanced results
• Neutral: minimal processing for natural results
• Vivid: enhances saturation, contrast, and sharpness to produce vivid images with vibrant greens, reds, and blues
• Monochrome: take monochrome photographs
• Custom 1/2: allows you to manually adjust the settings for Contrast, Sharpness and Saturation

Flash Modes: The Coolpix P6000 has a built-in Speedlite flash with a range of 1 foot to 19 feet  (Wide angle) and 1 feet to 9 feet (Telephoto). You can adjust the flash output by +/- 3.0 EV in increments of 1/3 EV, changing the brightness of the main subject relative to the background. 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 Off: flash will not fire, even when lighting is poor
• Fill Flash: flash will fire whenever a picture is taken
• Slow Sync: auto flash combined with slow shutter speeds

Active D-Lighting: Active D-Lighting preserves details in highlights and shadows, creating photographs with natural contrast.

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.

Distortion Control: When activated, Distortion Control corrects distorted images by reducing frame size.

Noise Reduction: The camera uses a noise reduction system to minimize digital artifacts in long exposures.

Voice Recording: Audio voice recordings can be recorded over the camera's built-in microphone and played back over its built-in speaker. Voice recording will end automatically if the internal memory or memory card becomes full, or after five hours of recording on the memory card.

GPS Capability: The camera's built-in GPS capability will automatically geo-tag your photos with the exact location and time of when and where you shot that picture. You can then upload pictures directly to myPicturetown.com, then conduct searches based on the location of where your pictures were taken. You can also view them all at once.

Optional Accessories: Optional Wide-angle (24mm) and Telephoto (369mm) Converter lenses further extend focal and creative range, as does a built-in accessory shoe that supports Nikon's advanced i-TTL flash control for external flashes, including the Speedlight SB-400, SB-600 and SB-800 (all sold separately).

Play, Edit and Print Functions

Copy: You can internally copy images and voice recordings between the camera's internal memory and an inserted SD-card.

Slide Show Playback: View pictures in the internal memory or on the memory card in an automatic slide show with about three seconds between pictures. Maximum slide show duration is 30 minutes without operation.

Thumbnail Playback: During playback, you can view multiple thumbnail images (4, 9, or 16) at a time. While these "contact sheets" are displayed, you can use the multi-selector to highlight individual pictures. Highlighted pictures can be deleted, if desired.

View By Date: In Calendar mode or List-by-Date mode, pictures shot on a specified date can be displayed.

Playback Zoom: During playback, you can enlarge a still image up to 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 button.

Rotate Image: Recorded pictures can be rotated 90-degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise on the unit's LCD screen.

Editing Picture: You can use the Coolpix P6000 to edit recorded pictures in-camera and store them as separate files. You can choose from the following editing functions.

• 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.
• In-Camera Cropping: This feature allows you to crop out the part of the image you don't want and keep the part you do.
• Black Borders: This function creates copies of your images with black lines along the borders of the pictures. Copies with the black frame are stored as separate files.
• Resizing Pictures (Small Picture): You can create a small copy of a recorded image. The copy will be stored as a JPEG file with a compression ratio of 1:16. You can choose from the following sizes:
  • 640 x 480: Suited to television playback
  • 320 x 240: Suited to display on web pages
  • 160 x 120: Suitable for email attachments
• NRW (RAW) Processing: Create JPEG-format copies of NRW (RAW) images using just the camera without a need for the computer.

Voice Memos: Using the camera's microphone, you can record a voice memo during full-screen playback to be associated with a particular picture. Voice memos are recorded as long as the shutter release is held down, to a maximum length of 20 seconds.

Protect: The camera allows you to protect selected pictures from accidental deletion.

myPicturetown with Wired LAN: myPicturetown is an Internet service for storing and viewing photos. The service offers up to 2 GB of free storage. Pictures can be stored on the server using the camera's wired LAN (100BASE-T) connection. Pictures stored on the server can be easily managed and sorted using a computer. myPicturetown features the following program called Picture Bank.

• Picture Bank: Pictures and movies can be uploaded to the my Picturetown server for storage allowing you to use the my Picturetown server as your own personal storage space for pictures. These pictures can then be downloaded to a computer at any time. Upload of selected pictures can be initiated or picture upload can be set to begin automatically when the AC adapter is connected to the camera to charge the battery, making this a convenient service when taking a large number of pictures or for saving the pictures you take on an everyday basis.
  • Note: Sound files cannot be uploaded

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.
  • Note: images stored in the internal memory need to be transferred to a memory card prior to printing
• 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 via USB

Multi-Language Menu: You can choose from 24 different menu display languages including English, Spanish or French.

Battery Information

Power Requirements: The Coolpix P6000 is powered by the supplied rechargeable Li-ion battery (EN-EL5) which provides up to approximately 260 shots when fully charged. The camera also comes supplied with an AC adapter (EH-66) which can used to power the camera as well as recharge the battery. However, the battery cannot be charged while the camera is turned on.

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.

Inputs and Outputs Notes

USB/Audio-Video Output: The Coolpix P6000 features a single proprietary jack on the bottom of the camera for connecting the supplied Audio/Video or USB cable. This one output allows you to download your photos to your computer or printer via USB, or view your photos on a TV via composite video. The USB interface is USB 2.0 High Speed compatible. The video output is NTSC or PAL compatible.

Supplied Software

Software Suite CD-ROM: The supplied Software Suite CD-ROM contains Nikon Transfer, Panorama Maker and related software. Nikon Transfer is used to copy (transfer) pictures from the camera to the computer and to perform such other transfer-related functions as making backups and embedding information in pictures as they are transferred. Panorama Maker is used for creating panorama images from the camera's recorded still images.

System Requirements: The supplied software will work with Windows and Macintosh. You computer will need to meet the following system requirements.