The Nikon COOLPIX L21 is a sensible bargain for any amateur photographer, and despite its low price and tiny size, it packs a very powerful punch. The Nikon COOLPIX L21 captures images with Nikon's famous NIKKOR lens and the camera has an optical zoom of 3.6X. The highly optimized image processing system of the Nikon COOLPIX L21 is run on EXPEED, Nikon's flagship image processing unit. Easy Auto system for the amateur photographer enhances the user-friendliness of the Nikon COOLPIX L21 and a variety of enhancing functions help deliver professional looking photographs with point-and-shoot action.

The Nikon COOLPIX L21 has three features that really work and reduce photo blurs:

1. Motion Detection: The camera automatically compensates camera shake by increasing shutter speed and ISO sensitivity.

2. Nikon BSS: Automatic capture of ten sequential frames and saving the frame that has the sharpest focus.

3. Electronic Vibration Reduction: This system digitally compensates and removes blurs during image processing.

The Nikon COOLPIX L21 is powered by ordinary AA size pencil batteries that are available everywhere. This is an important point in selecting cameras for no one likes to run out of power on a vacation and be saddled with a virtually dead camera with a non-standard power cell.

The Nikon COOLPIX L21 has awesome imaging capabilities for its compact size. It can produce images up to 3264x2448 pixels. The 3.6x optical zoom enhanced by the 4x digital zoom results in a combined zoom of 14.4x. That's good enough for really detailed photographs.

The Nikon COOLPIX L21 has several shooting scene modes including Auto, Landscape, Sports, Night Portrait, Party/Indoor, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/dawn, Night landscape, Close-up, Food, Museum, Fireworks show, Copy, Backlight, and Panorama assist.

The Nikon COOLPIX L21 supports both Single and Continuous mode shooting in addition to Multi-shot 16 frames. Video recording with sound is of unexpectedly good quality. The high image and video quality of the Nikon COOLPIX L21 is truly a result of an extremely sensitive exposure metering system and full range of White Balance including Auto, Preset-manual, Daylight, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Cloudy, and Flash. The Nikon COOLPIX L21 also has multiple Flash Sync Modes including Auto, Auto with red-eye reduction, Off, Fill flash, and Slow Sync.

The Nikon COOLPIX L21 available in several colors and with superb looks also provides an efficient power economy, giving approx 280 shots with ordinary alkaline batteries and up to 500 shots with EN-MH2 batteries.