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mic Pearlman here for TechnoBuffalo and you may be asking yourself what I'm doing in a dark garage with my iphone a MacBook Pro and the new Nikon Coolpix S 1200 PJ find out the answer to that question and more after the break made by everyone's favorite Canuck John Q welcome to my review of the Nikon Coolpix s 1200 PJ this is nikon's third projector cam if you can believe it the first was the S 1000 PJ last year's was the S 11,000 PJ and this is nikons new S 1200 PJ I will tell you it is the most powerful projector cam in Nikon's fleet but it has some awesome new features that the previous models lacked let's talk about price you can order the S 1200 PJ online for for $29.99 that is an $80 boost from last year's S 1100 PJ but I'm going to tell you why this camera ships with this magical cable magical jumble of cables that actually connects to your iPhone and allows you to project whatever's on your iPhone as far as pictures and videos now before we delve into the projector goodness of the S 1200 PJ let's talk about image quality because the camera is useless without the ability to take decent pictures overall this camera has mediocre image quality many of the pictures exhibited purple fringing as well as vignette around the corners of the pictures and that's primarily due to the lens the S 1200 PJ has a 14 megapixel one over 2.3 inch sensor and that's a lot of megapixels to be cramming on one tiny sensor because of that low light took a hit as well as last year in fact Nikon did not even alter one bit of the imaging engine inside the coolpix S 1200 compared to last year so it's identical image quality that I experienced with the 1100 last year on the 1200 same 5x optical zoom the core pens and a fairly limiting F 3.9 aperture base this camera captures 720p video at 30 frames per second and I have to be honest it rivaled certain smartphones when it came to its quality the one good thing about this camera was its stereo audio pickup it has great audio if you're going to use it primarily for projectors sake it's fine if you're going to post a Facebook the pictures are fine you could still get some good macro shots out of this camera however you're not going to want to throw them in a gallery although Nikon didn't change anything as far as the imaging engine of this camera the projector has undergone some major changes we have a boost from 14 lumens to 20 lumens on this projector we also have individual RGB lights LED lights as opposed to one single white LED the spread has also been boosted to 60 inches compared to last year's 47 inches and the throw has been boosted to 10 feet compared to last year's 7 feet with that said the Nikon Coolpix S 1200 pj is definitely Nikon's best projector cam to date in fact I'd venture to say that it's a better projector than it is a camera as well as iPhone this camera supports iPad and iPod devices it comes with this handy Belkin cable configuration here it has a splitter one end goes to the S 1200 pj plugs right into this jack and this is an optional charging end as well so you can charge your phone while you're showing now you can only show pictures from your gallery after setting a slideshow here so you have to start slideshow and then it begins like so now let's move on to the computer if you have a Mac or Windows PC with relatively nice specs then this camera will project whatever is on your desktop on the big screen what you gonna do when oka mania runs while on you me love me TechnoBuffalo the best website on the planet and in the solar system the intergalactic solar system and in order to view all the videos and pictures that you've taken with the S 1200 PJ all you have to do is slide the new projector latch down and it's coolpix time in addition to the various improvements Nikon made to the S 1200 PJ's projector they also improve the design giving it this nice latch that covers the projector lens keeping it safe also they simplified the focusing dial here for the projector pretty awesome setup isn't it now one of the good things about the coolpix s 1200 PJ is that it has a built in tilt stand on the bottom to prop it up for a good viewing angle so if you're her in say garage and you have a bucket we need to prop it up a little bit the tilt stand is your man but one crucial thing that Nikon did was ax the touch screen LCD which was exceedingly sluggish last year I'm really glad they got rid of it because the firmware now is so much quicker on this camera I was able to rifle through a lot of the menu selections let's also talk about shooting features the Nikon Coolpix S 1200 PJ is very light on them this thing does not allow you to adjust the shutter or aperture only in select scene modes and the camera kind of dictates the values for that the S 1200 PJ like last year's S 1100 PJ has autofocus it doesn't have manual focus but the autofocus worked fairly well it has a bunch of different flash modes it has some fun modes as well - a great selective color mode over all the Nikon Coolpix S 1200 PJ is a blast of a camera it does something that no other compact is capable of doing $430 it's kind of hard to justify but you look at it as a pocket projector that has ability the ability to take pictures and videos it's a pretty awesome device Nikon just needs to work on the image quality of this camera and then I think they've got an a.1 top-notch camera for even more on the Nikon Coolpix as 1200 PJ go to my full review on TechnoBuffalo comm for rules of image samples and video samples I'm Mike Roman for TechnoBuffalo and I will see you guys in the next video time to get back to Hulkamania I am a real American you