Camera Manuals and Specifications

Lens Coating Technology

Nikon knows that a quality lens will produce a clear, quality picture. After all, the lens is the most important part of any camera, correct? Nikon used a technology that combines super integrated coating with a Nano crystal coat to produce some of the most technologically advanced lenses on the market. The standards for digital cameras need to manage reflections that are caused by the imaging sensor, which can produce image-degrading effects such as flare and ghost.

The use of the super integrated coating has been used on all of Nikon’s camera lenses for the past 20 years. The Nano crystal coat, however, has just recently been introduced. This coating is used to further reduce the effects of internal reflections. It originates in the optics used in the microscopic manufacture of semiconductors. Ghost and flare effects are minimized, especially in backlit situations, to give more clarity under more demanding conditions than ever before.

Each of the Nikon Coolpix digital cameras come with Nikkor Lenses. The lenses contain an antireflective coating. This coating reduces the element reflections on the internal lens and is effective in reducing the appearance on the image of the distinctive shape of the lens diaphragm that is peculiar to the ultra-wide angle lenses.

There are several types of lenses, the G and the DX. The G-type lenses do not contain an aperture control ring and are intended for use on the Nikon D-SLR. The G-type optic lens is able to relay subject-to-camera distance information, which determines the ambient and flash exposure. The DX lenses were designed to cover a smaller image area. When the D-SLR camera is attached to the FX-format (the larger of the lenses), the crop mode is automatically engages. There are at least 25 different lenses to choose from.

One of the great advantages of a COOLPIX camera is its NIKKOR lens. For over 70 years Nikon has controlled the design and manufacture of NIKKOR optics for its SLRs and compact cameras.

Nikon pioneered the design and manufacture of a spherical lenses―which minimize optical aberrations while allowing for lighter, smaller optics―and developed ED (extra-low dispersion) glass, which ensures superior sharpness and maximum color correction.

Nikon breakthroughs in microcomputer technology provide for complete integration of NIKKOR lenses into all Nikon imaging systems.