Price Challenge : Nikon CoolPix L24

Right now its season of marriages, engagements and  bachelor parties. What's common among all these is old friends getting together and meeting each other. These are moments to cherish and keep memories intact for years to come. Most of us now carry smart phones with high resolution cameras to click photos anytime but mobile camera phones can never compensate for the actual digital camera. So, its always better to have a decent digital point and shoot camera with you whenever you attend such events.

I find NIKON COOLPIX L24 a really nice point and shoot camera from Nikon. It costs less, very handy and excellent picture quality. So grab one so you won't miss on those amazing moments. It comes in three colors black , red and silver.

The MRP of Nikon CoolPix L24 is Rs 5, 450/-, it can be bought at Rs 4, 285/- through Timtara.com, a huge saving of almost Rs 1100 INR !!!. Also, in all the online stores its coming with freebies like Pouch, Battery Charger, 4 GB SD Card (1500 INR), Reebok watch and Pen( 3950 INR).

Coolpix L24 is the latest compact digital camera in the lifestyle series of Nikon. Coolpix L24 is a 14 megapixel camera and has a CCD sensor with 6.18 x 4.55 mm dimension. It has aspect ratios of 4:3 and 16:9. The camera also has Electronic Vibration Reduction feature, which helps in countering camera shake.

Body

Nikon L24 weighs 182g and has dimension of 98 x 61 x 28 mm. It has a 3-inch TFT LCD screen with a resolution of 230,000 dot pixels. This Nikon camera has internal memory of 17 MB and additional external memory can be added using SD memory card (also SDHC/SDXC compliant). The camera kit consists of twoLR6/L40 (AA-size) alkaline batteries, which are capable of taking 220 shots. The Coolpix L24 also supportsEN-MH2 and lithium batteries, which can click up to 450 and 700 shots, respectively.

Performance

The Coolpix L24 has optical zoom of 3.6x and digital zoom of 4x. The camera has Contrast detection Auto Focus with the range of 30 cm in Normal mode and 5 cm in Macro mode. This Nikon camera has Auto sensitivity feature, which ranges from ISO 80 - 1600. The shutter speed of the camera ranges from 1/4000 to 4sec. The in-built Flash has range of 7 m and the Aperture ranges from F3.1 - F6.7.

Features and Connectivity

The Nikon Coolpix has scene modes such as Portrait, 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 Face recognition feature in this camera detects up to 12 faces. The self-timer feature can be setup for 10 seconds duration. Coolpix L24 features shooting at 0.7 fps up to 3 shots in continuous mode. It also has BSS (Best Shot Selector) and Multi-shot 16 (16 frames with a single burst) capture modes. Coolpix L24 can record video at a resolution of 640 x 480 at 30fps. The camera supports AVI movie format and Compressed JPEG (EXIF) image format. In terms of connectivity, the Nikon Coolpix L24 can connect to computer using USB 2.0.

Here's the listing of websites in descending order of prices offered for Nikon Coolpix L24 and needless  say all these players do not charge for delivering the product.

Website                      Price(INR) Delivery    Store

Timtara                        4, 285                           Delivers in 7-10 days                      Go to Store
(Use coupon code NOV1K which reduce price from 5, 285 to 4, 285 INR)

IndiaPlaza                    4, 653                           Ships in 2 days                                Go to Store
(Use coupon code ICICIFEST12 which reduce price from 5, 285 to 4, 653 INR)

LetsBuy                       4, 759                           Delivers in 3-5 days                        Go to Store

(Use coupon code AMEXLB which reduce price from 5, 285 to 4, 759 INR. Also they are giving additional
8GB SD Card as well along-with 4GB one)

HomeShop18              4, 785                           Delivers in 3-7 days                        Go to Store
(Use Gift Voucher code GCP5EN92EP2K which reduce price from 5, 285 to 4, 785 INR)

BuyThePrice               4, 910                           Delivers in 3-6 days                        Go to Store

Flipkart                        5, 287                         Delivers in 2-4 days                          Go to Store

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