Nikon Coolpix 4600 for Christmas!

MeganMK · #1 26th December 2005, 08:12 PM

My parents got us a Nikon Coolpix 4600 digital camera for Christmas!! This was a much wanted gift, as we are building a house and are trying to take pictures throughout the process, and have to keep borrowing other people's cameras. It is nice to be able to take pictures of Lucky too!

Does anyone have this camera? What do you love or hate about it? So far we have really enjoyed it, it is very user friendly.

AJsMom · #2 27th December 2005, 06:55 AM

I got the Nikon CoolPix 5600 for Christmas. I am pretty sure they are very similar. I love it!! It is very easy to use and seems to take great pictures. I still can't figure out how to make the pictures small enough to download on here. I was very excited to get it so I could post some pictures of AJ but I can't get it to work!

Bjaken · #3 27th December 2005, 07:01 AM

We got the same camera!!! I think what I hate the MOST about the camera itself is I can't figure out which setting to be on where it's going to take a good picture but not flash a billion times before it clicks the picture!! ehhehehe...also, the software it comes with once you transfer the pictures to your computer doesn't seem to have the ability to resize the pictures....looks like you have to use a different program for that...unless i am COMPLETELY missing it...LOL

**gmacleod** · #4 27th December 2005, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by AJsMom

I still can't figure out how to make the pictures small enough to download on here.

Check your user manual for how to compress or resize pictures. The software that comes with the camera should do the job

Alternatively, there are plenty of free programs you can download from the internet that will resize your pics for you (best size for the web is 640x480 pixels) - one of these is irfanview which is pretty easy to use. You can download it for free from www.irfanview.com

Bjaken · #5 27th December 2005, 07:09 AM

ok thanks!!! I do have a program I was using before I got the digital, but I don't know how to open the digital pictures with the other program. But then again, I haven't really tried yet either!! I'm sure i'll figure it out...

AJsMom · #6 27th December 2005, 08:17 AM

I downloaded the free software and was able to figure it all out pretty quickly and I'm pretty technologically illiterate.... I was also happy to see that the reduced sized pictures were emailed much much faster as well!!! I LOVE my new camera!!