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WHAT'S HOT: Small size, impressive images, and a surfeit of controls highlight the CoolPix 880. The camera has a boxy shape, but it's comfortable to hold and it'll fit into a large pocket. Our test images were among the best we've seen from any digital camera, with good detail, accurate whites, and bright colors. The only knock against this camera's images is some loss of subtle color shading.
Nikon hit nearly every kind of setting or adjustment you can think of in this model. For beginners or for quick from-the-hip shots, there's a fully automatic mode. From there you can select manual, aperture priority, and program priority selections, all from a simple dial on the top of the camera. Shutter-priority is the only semiautomatic setting missing. You also get 11 "scene" modes that help you select the best combination of camera settings for difficult lighting situations, such as sunsets, portraits, and beach scenes. Additional exposure controls include two types of spot metering, center-weighted metering, and a matrix mode that calculates the best exposure by sampling across the...