Interestingly, the Nikon S3500's lens is also just a little brighter across the zoom range, with maximum apertures starting from f/3.4 at wide angle, and falling to a rather dim f/6.4 at the now-stronger telephoto. (The S3300, by contrast, provided an f/3.5 to f/6.5 range.) Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Digital Filters - The S3500 has a good range of filters to use to help take more creative pictures, with a number of examples above. Using an 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of graph paper (1/4 inch boxes), and placing a small 6" ruler on the paper, using natural sunlight through the window, I took several Macro test shots, ensuring that the image was completely on the graph paper. The menu system on the S3500 is easy to understand and navigate. The battery has a CIPA rating of 220 shots, which should be enough for a day of shooting. We tested the cameras performance at focusing, shutter response, shot-to-shot time, continuous shooting etc. and have posted the results below. To test this we took 6 or more shots and calculated the average, so that consistent results were produced.

Image size (pixels): 20M (High) [5152 x 3864], 20M [5152 x 3864], 10M [3648 x 2736], 4M [2272 x 1704], 2M [1600 x 1200], VGA [640 x 480], 16:9 (14M) [5120 x 2880]default setting): 1280 x 720/16:9/approx. 30 fps, 480/30p: 640 x 480/4:3/approx. 30 fps, 240/30p: 320 x 240/4:3/approx. 30 fps Lens Performance - Images have a decent amount of detail at both ends of the lens, with a good control over purple fringing, although pincushion distortion is visible in some shots. The lens has a minimum focusing distance of 5cm which allows you to get close enough for decent macro shots. I have used the camera for slightly over a month. Pl see the pics I uploaded. The following are my observations:

The Nikon Coolpix S3500 does get a little vignetting at the corners of the frame and the flash has been designed to replicate natural light, just a more stable version of it. This means that the vignetting seen without flash is also present when it fires. However, it disperses when the lens is zoomed in. Kingston manufacturers high quality SD, SDHC and SDXC for use in your Nikon Coolpix S3500 Digital Camera. Whether you're looking to increase capacity of boost overall performance of your Nikon Coolpix S3500 Digital Camera then upgrade today with Kingston.

On the rear panel is a 2.7-inch LCD monitor. That's smaller than average these days, but no more so than was that in its predecessor, and the modest display size likely helps keep size, weight, and power consumption down -- so perhaps it's really a positive. The display has QVGA resolution, for a total of 320 x 240 pixels. (If you're comparing to a camera rated in dots, that's equivalent to around 230,400 dots.) The S3500 takes a lithium ion battery and this is included in the box along with the charger and any necessary cables to plug it in and get pictures to a computer. Of course, you may have an Eye-Fi memory card and if you do, the S3500 is wireless transfer capable as long as you have one of these cards. It works by detecting a free wi-fi hotspot. Once there, it uploads pictures to a location of your choice.

The pictures taken throughout the test were taken at full resolution and the finest compression rating unless otherwise stated. At full size, the pictures range from just under to just over 8Mb. Reduce the compression rating to lose more information and that's roughly halved. You can perform this action in the resolution menu by choosing the 20 megapixel option that doesn't have the star. It will use less information and thereby allow more pictures to be stored, but the image quality will suffer on fine detail subjects. In 35mm terms, the focal length of the 7x optical zoom fitted to the S3500 is 26-182mm. The lens that Nikon have put on this new run of digital compacts that includes the S3500 is great. We couldn't find any evidence of barrel distortions at wide-angle or pincushion at full zoom. Lens: NIKKOR lens with 7x optical zoom; 4.7-32.9 mm (35mm [135] format equivalent: 26-182 mm); f/3.4-6.4We were really hard pressed to find any chroma on the pictures from the Nikon Coolpix S3500. We found very mild evidence of it on a couple of pictures, but not where we expected to see it. However, we did see a few examples of haloing around some high contrast areas which may be some chromatic aberration removal software at work. a. Time lag between start-up and first shot is slightly high, compared to my Canon SD790 model. It seems to take some time to focus. To get to the memory card, the image has to pass through the Nikon EXPEED C2 processor, which is hardware taken from the DSLR range. EXPEED is Nikon's dedicated imaging processor (everyone has one these days) which is designed to process images to the best quality possible. On some lower end compact cameras, the processor hasn't managed to cope with the high resolution of the sensor. The S3500 comes with a 20 megapixel sensor which could cause problems with noise, but the test will confirm how the camera copes. All in all its a good camera but not an absolutely great one. I feel its a great camera for people who want fully automatic settings, but since I prefer having fiddle room, that's not too good for me.