The Nikon Coolpix L22 is definitely an easily pocketable electronic compact photographic camera that nonetheless feels substantial owing to your further pounds of your two AA batteries it employs. Made almost totally of plastic, the video camera appears surprisingly well designed, with no obvious flimsiness or low-cost come to feel to it. Characterised by mild curves, the style isn't going to seem boxy in the least. The best-hand part - when viewed from above - is slightly thicker than the remaining from the digicam, as it is wherever you locate the battery compartment.

As a result, whilst the L22 would not have a genuine hand-grip, your fingers even now have some thing to carry onto, which can be a good factor. Talking with the battery compartment, it has to generally be noted that it also houses the reminiscence card - and provided which the batteries have absolutely nothing to help keep them in spot once the compartment door is open, you acquired much better be cautious when swapping cards.

The Coolpix L22 has a a few.6x zoom lens that spans a 35mm equivalent focal range of roughly 37-134mm. The optimum aperture is f/a few.one with the broad end and also a relatively slow f/6.7 at total telephoto. Upon start off-up the lens extends in about a moment, plus the photographic camera is prepared to take photos pretty much promptly right after that - exceptional overall performance at this cost stage. Thanks on the fairly restricted zoom assortment, the lens travels from its widest setting to total telephoto in below two seconds, that is once again quite great. Apart from the lens, the entrance panel is residence to your self-timer/AF-assist lamp, a tiny built-in flash, a speaker plus a microphone serving to record sound with your movie clips.

The high plate attributes a energy button surrounded by a eco-friendly LED, plus the shutter release, that is encircled by the zoom lever. The latter can be a novelty compared to the L20 of yesteryear, which received rear-mounted rocker buttons instead.  On the appropriate part in the digicam, when viewed from the spine, is a neck strap eyelet that appears to become steel.

The rear panel is dominated from the 3-inch, 230,000-dot TFT monitor. Since it includes a matt surface, I expected it to be effortlessly viewable in direct sunlight, but was just a little disappointed to view which the (glossy) screen from the L110 - which I also received with me throughout the user report interval - has actually confirmed to be superior. Having said that, the show was however very good for this course of camera. For the suitable of your display is actually a flash lamp, Record and Playback buttons, regular four-way navigation pad with centred OKAY button, plus the indispensable Menu and Erase buttons. A good feel is the fact that the Playback button can also be employed as being a secondary strength switch - just make sure to carry it depressed extended plenty of, and it is possible to use it to turn for the photographic camera to examine that which you've shot (the lens doesn't extend on this situation). One particular disturbing layout flaw is always that you are able to't get out of Playback mode by tapping the shutter release the way in which you'd do on practically all other cameras - the sole way to switch from Playback to History mode is by pressing the Record button, which is not an incredibly intuitive answer.

Speaking of your History button, it brings up a graphical checklist from the readily available shooting modes, which include Automobile, Effortless Auto, Motion picture, Smart Portrait and sixteen scene modes which include a panorama assist mode. Somewhat confusingly, Car could be the mode that provides you the greatest management over the shooting approach; allowing you to access the file high quality and white stability settings, the generate modes (sole frame, continuous shooting, Greatest Shot Selector and Multi-Shot 16) and 5 color possibilities which include Normal, Vivid, Black and White, Sepia and Cyanotype. The macro mode, the self-timer, the flash modes and publicity compensation are accessible directly by means of the 4-way pad. You can not, however, established the aperture, shutter pace or ISO pace in any of your shooting modes. In light-weight of that, it appears to be practically perverse for Nikon to obtain incorporated a manual white stability selection in the WB menu.

As much because the drive modes are anxious, the continuous mode makes it possible for you to take photographs continuously at a pace of about 0.9 frames for each moment (the manual says the L22 can sustain this charge for up to 5 frames, but I received almost 30 in a very row). In Greatest Shot Selector mode the photographic camera normally requires as much as 10 snap shots and automatically chooses the sharpest one, discarding the remaining. In Multi-shot 16 mode, the digicam captures 16 images in less than a 2nd, and combines them into a solitary five-megapixel image.