Nikon COOLPIX4300 - The pulse 2: the best of J@pan Inc's newsletters: gadget watch, wireless watch, and music media watch - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., Nov, 2002

The successor to the 3,000,000-pixel COOLPIX885 digicam, the COOLPIX4300 ([yen] 87,000) has--wait for it--4 million pixels! "So why's it called the 4300?" I hear you ask. "Why not 4000?" Because it has a 4,130,000-pixel CCD of course. Er, moving on....

The new Coolpix has a 3x optical zoom (and 4x digital) on its Zoom Nikkor Lens, with 35mm equivalents of 38-114mm and F2.8-4.9. The biggest picture the 4300 knocks out is 2,272x1,704 dots, which is enough for anyone, and they can be in either JPEG or TIFF format. Focal range is 30 cm to infinity and there's a macro mode to allow snapping from about 4 cm. The 4300 also has 12 "scenes" to reproduce all the right settings for particular conditions (e.g. at night). The images are stored on a Type I CompactFlash card and images can be sent to your

PC at a single touch of the transfer button, which automatically starts up the Nikon View 5 software and effects the transfer.

The camera also features an ultra-high-speed snapping mode, allowing the taking of 30 pictures a second, but only at a resolution of 320x240 dots (it can also take 40 seconds of movies at this resolution, with output at 15 frames per second). AV output can be in both PAL and NTSC. With the Olympus CAMEDIA C-4000 Zoom also fighting for the top spot in this category, things are getting real interesting.

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More info: http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/PDF/index4300.htm

Source: Nikkei on Yahoo.com