Today’s camera review isn’t going to be anything spectacular.  No, not by a long shot.  In fact, it’s going to be pretty low end.  But if all you need is a simple picture taker at a crashingly low price, it’s going to be something you’ll want a look at. Today we’re talking about the Nikon S230.

The Nikon S230 is a ten megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom to back it up, a three inch LCD touchscreen, EXPEED image processor, a variety of scene and white balance modes, nine point autofocus, a smile mode that ensures no pictures will be taken until your subject smiles, along with a “blink-proof” mode that does pretty much what the name implies, a continuous shooting mode that lets you take frames at a higher rate of speed to ensure good shots in action conditions, auto flash, AVI recording capability, forty four megs of onboard memory along with Secure Digital memory card support, PictBridge capability for direct printing, USB and A/V outputs for easy viewing elsewhere, and included editing software.

Obviously, there’s not a whole lot here that makes it a big deal. Sure, that three inch touchscreen is pretty nice, and there’s other nice things here too.  And though the resolution’s a bit low at ten megapixel and the zoom is short (under fifty feet by my reckoning), it’s a decent, but very simple, camera.  It’s low end.  And it’s going to cost like it.

The folks out at Best Buy, for example, want a hundred and twenty bucks for this thing.  And that’s not bad by any stretch of the imagination.  Granted, you don’t get much for that hundred and twenty, but in terms of digital cameras, a hundred and twenty isn’t much at all.

The Nikon S230 isn’t a bad camera, it just doesn’t have much to it. So if you’re looking for simple and low-cost, then you’ll absolutely want a look here.

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