In the face of dwindling sales, compact cameras are experiencing some serious feature bumps to try to pull in the growing legion of photography enthusiasts. One of the more popular gimmick today is the cramming of large sensors into compact bodies with the promise of better quality photos.

Nikon is the latest entrant into this “small body, big sensor” race with its new CoolPix A, and its 16.2-megapixel “DX” sensor is the as big as most of the company’s DSLR cameras. Like other large sensor compacts, the CoolPix A has a fixed focal length and wide aperture, which should mean sharper and brighter photos. …

Nikon took the wraps off the usual annual incremental upgrades to its line-up of point-and-shoot cameras on Tuesday, led by the advanced compact P520 with its whopping 42x zoom. …

Canon and Nikon are officially going at each other again now that the EOS 6D full-frame DSLR has landed at your nearest camera store. The 6D starts at S$2,899, a lower price than Nikon’s D600, which is going for S$3,249.

While Nikon isn’t offering any kit combos with the D600, you can get the 6D with an EF24-105 f/4 L lens for S$3,899 or an EF24-70 f4 L lens for S$4,699.

As far as full-frame DSLRs go, the 6D’s much cheaper price seems a better buy. But you do get what you pay for, as the paper specifications of the D600 mostly trumps those of the 6D.

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Nikon has unveiled its new D5200 camera, a compact and lightweight entry-level model aimed at enthusiasts who want to upgrade to a DSLR camera.

The D5200 comes with a 24.1-megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor, 39-point auto-focusing system and an optimised EXPEED 3 image-processing engine based on Nikon’s D4 flagship camera. There is also an articulated Vari-angle LCD monitor and a redesigned graphical user-interface. It will be available in three different colours – black, red and bronze. …

I was a little tired of hearing a company praise its own products to the skies after Apple’s hyperbolic iPhone 5 announcement yesterday, but it’s hard to argue against Nikon calling the new D600 DSLR a “game-changer”.

The company’s new full-frame camera – or FX format, in Nikon parlance – sticks it to every other full-frame DSLR on the market on several counts. …

Samsung is already the king of Android smartphones and has a line of smart cameras to boot, so it should be a no-brainer for it to make an Android-powered smart camera, right?

Except Nikon just beat it to the punch with the new Coolpix S800c, an undeniably cool camera with built-in WiFi and powered by Android 2.3. There’s also a GPS chip to geo-tag your photos. …

Now that Nikon has taken care of its top-end customers with the new D4 and D800 DSLRs, it has turned its attention to the entry-level segment of the market.

Camera makers like Canon and Nikon have been going after the burgeoning market of youngsters who want a “cool” DSLR for a while now, and Nikon’s newest entry-level D3200 makes for a very compelling “first camera”.

Nikon will continue selling the affordable D3100 alongside the D3200. Both look nearly identical, so how worthy is this new upgrade? …

If you fell in love with Nikon’s new flagship full-frame DSLR the D4, but are craving for some more megapixel “oomph”, your wish might be granted in the form of the new astounding 36-megapixel D800. In many ways, the D800′s features mirror that of the D4: the same 91k-pixel metering sensor, the same Expeed 3 image processor, and the same new lightning fast 51-point autofocus system.

Like the D4, the D800 has great video features, such as full HD video recording using B-frame compression for higher-quality H.264 MP4 video, the ability to output uncompressed HDMI, an improved audio metering system, and a convenient power aperture control that doesn’t cause any flickering in the video if the aperture is adjusted while recording. …

Nikon’s new flagship professional-grade DSLR, the D4, is an impressive camera on paper: the US$6,000 shooter packs a faster Expeed-3 processor, a full-frame 16.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, and supports an incredible range of sensitivity from ISO 50 to 204,800.

It also features a new 51-point autofocus system that is compatible with all Nikon lenses even with a teleconverter in tow, and a 91,000-pixel RGB metering sensor, which lets the D4 more accurately recognise the scene you’re trying to shoot through colour and brightness. This blows the previous D3S’s 1,005-pixel meter completely out of the water. …