The Coolpix S8000 marks Nikon's surprisingly late entry in the compact ultra-zoom market, but it fought with the established ranges from Panasonic, Canon and Samsung to compete.
A year and later two revisions of the S9100 is a much more credible candidate. It retains the S8000 elegant, contoured design and excellent transplanted, 910, 000-pixel screen, but zoom range has nearly doubled to 18 x - the largest ever in a compact-shaped camera be squashed.
Another great improvement is the change from a 14-megapixel CCD-sensor, a 12-megapixel CMOS back-illuminated. Excessive noise is a big problem for virtually all ultra-zoom cameras on their small, excessively high resolution sensors. This is a slightly lower resolution and back-illuminated design (an innovative sensor layout used to increase the sensitivity) good both for noise level.
It is an extremely responsive camera with only 1.6 seconds to the fire above and a photo capture. We measured an average 1.5 seconds between shots during normal use during the continuous mode a lightning-fast 10 fps, if for only five frames ran. There is an alternative continuous mode which is slower and longer, and faster modes up to 120 fps at reduced resolutions. It can record offset slow-motion video clips with a number of options for the frame-rate against resolution. As mentioned many times before, we love a bit slow-motion video, and this implementation is as good as it gets.
The menus were quick to navigate, with the five-way pad doubling as a wheel for making adjustments. We would like more direct access to ISO and white balance settings as well as options on the mode dial have seen manual exposure, but is populated within the camera otherwise well with useful controls, such as a spot-focus option, which can be placed anywhere. We estimate the release latch for the pop up Flash really was, that it meant only triggered when we actively requested.
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