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Jan 29, 2012
Great easy-to-use high-res close-ups but weak flash and long delay.
Great point & shoot camera: you don't have to worry about framing your shots with this camera, just shoot the overall scene and crop to suit later, as the camera makes good use of its high resolution. Movies are more than good enough for YouTube, even in low light (albeit red-toned in low light).
The S52c has a hard time capturing small fast objects in motion, so you have to frame motion shots at an acute angle to mitigate the stutter effect of what amounts to missed frames.
But at the same time in 'sport mode', with the sun high & bright, and some coordinated panning on your part, you can shoot a NASCAR car racing by from trackside in high resolution and get a great sense of action and motion in flaring exhaust pipes and the like.
The close-up mode on this camera beats my Pentax Optio s5i & Lumix DMC-FH25 hands down. I bought my replacement S52c specifically for close ups of mechanical items.
The recessed lens on this camera makes it uniquely easy to use, and may have allowed my first camera to survive all those drops (I even broke off the tab that holds the battery in on one drop from my bike, but I closed it back up and it kept working!). It also makes it RC-friendly, that is, easy to bolt to an RC using the standard mount.
The S52c saves to .avi files, creating MovieMaker-ready footage (beware MovieMaker itself: it crashes a lot!). However, movies drain the battery quickly in my experience. And I further found the battery to be the limiting factor, so an extra battery is recommended (easily swapped in the field).
The white-balance in the movies seems a tad blue, but that may be operator error in my case, as I never tried to correct/set it for a given scene.
The many menu options are easy to navigate, once one gets the hang of the mode versus menu buttons (counter-intuitive uses for those two): the wide range of preset options for typical situations make the camera easy to use, with quick switching from portrait to landscape to action to close-up and back again without tweaking individual settings.
The time-delay & weak flash make this a poor camera for indoor party shots, generally. But the high resolution and excellent focus make for great portraits in the same situation.
I have bought two after losing my first one (if you find an S-52c with each end taped on from all the other times I dropped it, that's my camera!).
The built-in flash is not good for much more than filling in close shots, and shines best in close-up mode when shooting technical/mechanical items: a synchro port for an external flash is missing here.
And I rather wish Nikon had not put the power button next to the shutter button, nor had they made both much too easy to inadvertently press. And that they made the shortcut buttons over the lens programmable, but maybe in the next incarnation. As long as I am dreaming, perhaps they will also move the DC power input jack so one can mount the camera on a tripod and get power from the wall at the same time (those two often go hand in hand). And incorporate a truly sunlight-readable display, or a rangefinder!
Aug 24, 2018
Keep one in your zip tie supply.
Light but rigid with bends in all the right places.