Overview

The Nikon Coolpix L3 is a compact digital camera aimed at the entry level market. It offers 5.1 megapixels resolution, a 3 times optical zoom lens and a 2 inch LCD display. Equipped with point and shoot functionality, 15 scene modes, and an integrated help function, the Nikon Coolpix L3 has been designed to be easy to use. Two AA batteries power the L3 camera, so finding replacement batteries while travelling should be easy, and it also means that you can leave the charger at home.

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Available Reviews

• Nikon Coolpix L3 review at Bytesector
• Nikon Coolpix L3 review at CNet
• Nikon Coolpix L3 review at DPInterface

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Specifications

Resolution: 5.1 megapixels
Focal Length: 38-116mm, 35mm equivalent
Optical Zoom: 3x
Exposure Modes: Auto, Scene Modes
Macro Mode: 10cm
Movie Mode: 640×480 at 30fps
Shutter Speed: 4 – 1/1500 sec.
LCD Display: 2 inch
Storage Media: SD card
Battery: 2 AA type batteries
Dimensions (H x W x D):3.6 x 2.4 x 1.0 in. / 91 x 60.5 x 26mm
Weight: 4.2 oz / 120g, body only

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Press Release

Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the introduction of the COOLPIX L2, COOLPIX L3 and COOLPIX L4. These three entry-level digital compact cameras combine high-quality components like a 3x Zoom-Nikkor lens and a bright 2.0-inch LCD with in-camera image-improvement features, in lightweight and compact, yet elegantly finished bodies.

COOLPIX L2All three cameras boast powerful 38-116mm (114mm for the COOLPIX L4) Zoom-Nikkor lenses (35mm equivalent), providing the liberty to zoom in for tight personal portraits, or zoom out to take in expansive outdoor scenes. The CCD delivers higher performance within tighter dimensions, greatly adding to the cameras’ compact portability while offering generous effective megapixel values of 6.0 for the COOLPIX L2, 5.1 for the COOLPIX L3, and 4.0 for the COOLPIX L4, ensuring the refined image clarity that you’ve come to expect from other members of the COOLPIX family. All three also feature a bright, easy-to-view 2.0-inch LCD that’s now even easier to operate with new icons and function selection, and easier on the eyes thanks to a new color scheme.

COOLPIX L3The actual design of the COOLPIX L2, L3 and L4 is streamlined and comfortable to hold, and features a smooth, elegant finish that suggests a much higher level of sophistication. The curved grip contributes to both design elegance and shooting stability. The genuinely compact dimensions and light overall weight make them ideally suited to take along wherever the user may go. Adding significantly to this convenient portability is the advantage of AA-size battery compatibility. One of the most widely available battery sizes in the world, in alkaline, lithium, rechargeable or other forms, this advantage allows the user to continue shooting without worrying about international battery availability.

COOLPIX L4Unique to current COOLPIX digital cameras are a range of Nikon capabilities that give the user the power to automatically improve recorded images in-camera. Available in playback mode, the D-Lighting function selects and creates a copy of images with excessive backlight or insufficient flash illumination, adding light and detail wherever needed while keeping other areas as they were. The Face-priority AF* function automatically detects and then focuses in on people’s faces, regardless of where they are in the frame, ensuring superb crisp-focus portraits. The In-Camera Red-Eye Fix function analyzes each image, automatically finding and then correcting the accidental red-eye that sometimes occurs in flash photography, for more natural-looking portraits.

A choice of 15 different Scene modes – 4 with Scene assist – makes it so much easier to achieve desired results in a wide range of everyday situations. Just choose the Scene mode best suited to the subject at hand, and the COOLPIX L2, L3 and L4 automatically select the ideal settings for exactly the picture you had in mind, whether indoor party or outdoor nighttime fireworks display. Scene assist displays useful framing guides in the monitor, helping the user compose the shot for optimal results.

All three COOLPIX cameras are compatible with widely available SD memory cards. 23MB of internal memory for the COOLPIX L2 and L3 and 10MB for the COOLPIX L4 allow the user to keep right on shooting when no additional memory is available, as well as easily moving images from one SD card to another.

These three COOLPIX digital cameras offer movie-shooting capability** in three sizes: TV movie size (640) for viewing on TV or computers, convenient Small size (320), and Smaller size (160) for extended recording or Internet usage.

With the COOLPIX L2, L3 and L4, ease of use and convenient enjoyment don’t stop when the shooting does. Printing is simplified as well, with PictBridge capability enabling connection to a compatible printer without the need of a computer in between. USB connectivity eases transfer of data to computers and other peripherals. Completing the convenience package is the complimentary PictureProject accessory software, which greatly simplifies the importing, editing and organizing of your images, and includes other options that add to the fun of digital photography, and even offers compatibility with a range of plug-ins that allows functions to be extended on demand.
(source: Nikon)