Outwardly, the L120 may be very similar to final yr's L110 model, nevertheless they are really not very identical to each other. The Nikon Coolpix L120 retains the relatively huge and comfortable hand-grip of its predecessor, which nevertheless houses the four AA batteries essential to electrical power the digital camera, but this time close to it positive aspects from a slightly larger textured rubberised area to assist dealing with. As with the L110, the set of four commonly obtainable R6/AA-measurement batteries reveal their house together with the storage card, and offered that there's practically nothing to maintain them in place as soon as the compartment door is open, you would like being careful when shifting cards, in any other case the batteries spill out onto the floor.

The entrance in the L120 is dominated from the big lens, even when it sits retracted into its housing, despite the fact that commendably it really is no greater than the L110's 15x optic. Upon strength-up, the lens extends, presented you've not forgotten to remove the lens cap beforehand. If you've, you might not merely should get rid of it but also to energy the digicam off and on all over again, until you quickly clear away it within a couple of seconds, whereupon the lens extends as standard. The L120's lens will not be terribly fast when it comes to its maximum aperture, which can be f/a few.one at vast angle and f/5.8 at the telephoto conclusion. The focal  assortment, for the other hand, instructions admire, beginning at 4.5mm (equivalent to 25mm) and heading each of the way to 94.5mm (equivalent to 525mm).

The L120 sports a fantastic addition inside type of a side handle lever around the lens barrel. This enables you to zoom the lens in and out utilizing your left hand, in addition because the typical procedure with the zoom lever. It does not sound like an awesome deal in theory, but in apply it proves to get a really valuable feature, specifically when working the zoom through film recording. Kudos to Nikon for coming up with a genuinely innovative and useful layout feature, very a rarity nowadays.

Thankfully Nikon have incorporated Vibration Reduction (VR) that can help stop digital camera-shake, an important element using a photographic camera like this. As would be the circumstance with many other Nikon compacts, VR inside L120 is with the sensor-shift assortment rather then the in-lens model applied inside the producer's SLR technique. In addition to "pure" mechanical vibration reduction, you might choose a "hybrid" type of image stabilisation, by which situation sensor-shift VR is complemented by a solution that entails getting two photographs in succession, which can be then combined in-camera for higher impact. Naturally this requires extra time, but can yield far better benefits in selected circumstances.

You'll find comparatively several external controls around the Nikon Coolpix L120. The top plate features a electrical power button plus the shutter release, surrounded because of the zoom lever - and that's it. The flash is now raised via a smaller button towards the still left in the housing, nevertheless it's nonetheless a single of your handful of items which the camera will not likely do for you personally automatically. Just behind the flash really are a pair of microphones made to history stereo sound when shooting movies.

Most of the L120's rear panel is used up from the three-inch LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY monitor, whose resolution has been increased from 460,000 to an exceptional 921,000 dots. The L120#s filter retains an anti-reflective coating, which would make it perfectly usable for framing your photographs even in immediate sunlight, an vital virtue specified that the L120 has no eye-levels viewfinder of any kind. As for image research, this is some thing you are going to still would like to do within the shade of one's system rather than out inside the sun.

The layout in the rear controls is pretty much precisely the same as around the L110, with a few minor variations. The film record button, marked by a red dot, may be made larger and moved towards the leading with the rear with the video camera. This button implies you do not should pick a committed film shooting mode through the menu, but can get started filming whenever you would like. Unfortunately, it nonetheless will take the Nikon L120 a few seconds to actually get started documenting a movie clip soon after you've pushed the film report button. There is now a far more ergonomic rubberised region in which your appropriate thumb naturally rests to assist help your grip about the photographic camera.