Capsule Review: Nikon Coolpix L100
The Nikon Coolpix L6 packs in great features for the low price. Long battery life, simple controls and a bright 2.5” LCD screen make this a great camera for the casual shutterbug or as a first digital camera. Nikon promises 1,000 pictures on one pair of lithium AA batteries (or 400 on alkalines), and offers easy-shot features like Face Priority, D-lighting and In Camera Red-Eye Protection to appeal to entry level users. Easy to find at less than $150 USD, the Nikon Coolpix L6 gives you the features that most new users want in a digital camera – and truly impressive battery life.
Summary
The Nikon Coolpix L6 is Nikon’s latest entry in their line of Coolpix digital cameras. It features low price, long battery life and simple controls that make it easy for anyone to shoot good digital pictures. The Coolpix L6 is lightweight, easy to use and perfect for the entry level shutterbug who wants a reliable camera that’s easy to use and offers good picture quality. Nikon has aimed the camera squarely at the young and young-at-heart crowd with its advertising, styling and user friendly features that make the Coolpix line popular.
Highlighted Features – Long Battery Life
By far the most impressive feature of the Coolpix L6 is the record-breaking long battery life. Nikon has partnered with Energizer (yes, the company with the bunny) to research and engineer energy saving features that conserve battery life. Their innovations give this camera a very impressive 1,000 shots per set of AA lithium Energizer batteries – and just to get you started, they include a set of Energizer lithium batteries. With most other cameras in any price range averaging 200-300 shots of battery life, Nikon has good reason to wave the flag about their performance in this area.
As the mother who missed the shot of her daughter being handed her sheepskin because I was changing the batteries on my digital camera, this is a feature I truly appreciate. Even with alkaline batteries, you’ll get about 400 shots out of the Coolpix L6 before you have to change the batteries.
Easy Controls
Nikon bills the Coolpix L-series of cameras as ‘memories made easy’, and the L6 delivers on that promise. The camera does away with complex controls and gives you features that make it easy to take high quality pictures with very little experience. This is not the camera for the experienced shutterbug who wants total control over every technical aspect – but it doesn’t pretend to be. This is the camera for my mother, who has a professional quality digital that she routinely hands to the nearest grandchild at every opportunity because she has no idea how to set the lens speed, adjust the flash or any of the other myriad settings it offers.
With the Coolpix L6, you really can just point and shoot. If you want more control, though, there are fifteen ‘scene’ settings that allow you to choose from settings with easy to understand names like daylight, low light or portrait. You can choose to add fun extras like color effects,
Image Correction Features
The Nikon Coolpix L6 also offers three in camera innovations that let even inexperienced picture takers eliminate common picture problems. In camera red eye protection automatically corrects the infamous red-eye effect when taking flash pictures. The Face Priority mode will automatically recognize facial features when taking portrait shots and enhance the facial area of subjects so that you don’t get out of focus faces. And the D-light detection will automatically correct under and over exposed shots by making a copy of the photo and adding in detail to only the out of balance areas of the photo.
Super Cool Coolpix Features
The Coolpix L6 also offers two special features that help the amateur photo buff get the most out of a digital camera. The Best Shot Selector will automatically select and save the sharpest image from a series of up to ten pictures taken in sequence. And if you’ve ever ended up with a blurred, out of focus memory of a special moment, you’ll really appreciate the Blur Warning, which will let you know when a photo you’ve shot is out of focus so that you can retake the shot before leaving the scene.
Image Quality
The Nikon Coolpix L100 reviews offers great image quality for even the newest of users. With 6.0 megapixel capability and a 3x Niktor Zoom lens, the L6 gives users the ability to take a wide range of photos from tight close-ups and full panoramic scenery shots. Nikon technology puts high quality digital images within the range of anyone who can point and shoot.
Other Coolpix L6 Features
- Lightweight and compact, easy to hold and shoot. The L6 is slim and comfortable to hold, with all the controls on the right hand side of the camera, making it possible to take one-handed shots. It weighs in at just 4.4 ounces without the battery or SD memory card. The dimensions (3.6 x 2.4 x 1.0 inches) make the Coolpix L6 a slim pocket-size camera.
- Menu available in choice of 20 languages
- USB capability to transfer pictures to your PC for editing and sending in email.
- In camera editing and fun effects let you trim and frame pictures without connecting to the PC
- Movie mode lets you record at up to 15 frames per second
- 23 MB internal memory, supports SD memory card for more storage capability
- Built in flash with four modes for best flash selection
- 2.5” super bright LCD monitor for excellent picture viewing
Slideshow capability for playback of images
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- Slideshow capability for playback of images
- Included Nikon’s Picture Project software for organizing, sharing and editing pictures
The technical specs on this nikon digital camera can be found at your consumer electronics.Slideshow capability for playback of images

The world has become very dependent upon plastic products. From household items to industry and aerospace, plastic in its many formulations has transformed modern manufacturing and created conveniences and economies unimagined in the early decades of the 20th century.
Injection Molds
The injection molding industry took hold in 1946 when James Hendry built a screw injection molding machine. But, his technology was based on an earlier invention by John Wesley Hyatt who, in 1868 injected hot celluloid into a mold to make billiard balls. Hyatt's method used a plunger to force the material inside a mold. Hendry's improvement was revolutionary because it eliminated the plunger and replaced it with an auger-type action that better distributed material and facilitated the use of plastic inside molds.
Today's injection molds use much the same process and produce a wide variety of products from car panels to outdoor furniture, small toys and tools. Injection molding is ubiquitous in manufacturing and uses many different materials from polymer plastics to aluminum, copper and other metals. The plastic bottles and kitchen implements people use in everyday life are products of the injection process.
Because the metal molds are generally expensive to produce, injection molding is most economically used when thousands of pieces are being manufactured. Molds are made of hardened steel or, more recently, aluminum which is less expensive.
The Injection Process
Described very simply, molten plastic is injected into the mold under high heat and pressure. The goal is to have the molten plastic material evenly flow to all parts of the mold, creating an exact, consistent, solid plastic replica of the mold cavity. After a brief cooling cycle, the mold or tooling mechanically ejects the plastic part which then moves on through the manufacturing process. In the injection molding industry, this is a completely automated process that's very fast and extremely efficient.
Rotational Molding
Rotational molding is yet another method of producing multiple products, most often made with a variety of plastic powders. This process is usually used in making hollow products such as traffic cones, canoes, kayaks, bicycle helmets and giant tanks used for water or chemical storage.
Like Injection molding, rotational molding had its roots in the 1940s. But it was not until the technology was more sophisticated and new polymer and plastic formulations became available that the rotational process became a mainstream manufacturing method.
Rotational Process
The two processes are quite different. Let's consider, for example, a 300 gallon water storage tank made of polyethylene. Picture a master mold made of aluminum or steel. The plastics manufacturer pours poly resin powder into the mold that is fitted inside an oven. Once sealed, the mold is mechanically turned on at least three axes, moving much like a gyroscope. At the same time, the oven is raised to an appropriate temperature and the polymer - or other material - tumbles inside and slowly coats the inner walls of the mold, melting as it rotates.
Once the optimal temperature is reached, the mold is cooled. As the temperature of the mold itself falls, the product on the inside shrinks away from the inner walls and is easily removed. This is not always the case with injection molds that are often more difficult to successfully remove. The shrinking action of rotational molding is particularly desirable when the product is very large and awkward to handle.
Rotational molding is also more economical for some products because less material is used. In addition, the polymer that is left over from one mold can be used in another. The method itself is more streamlined than injection molding, which requires more interlocking parts.
Materials Improve and Expand
Most products made with the rotational molding method are from the polyethylene family. Other materials include nylons, polypropylene and PVC plastics. Some manufacturers have developed formulas that integrate the use of natural materials such as sand and chips of stone to make products.
Plastic and resin products are now an integral part of everyday life and supply us with items as tiny as paper clips and as big as storage tanks. As the industry developed, so too has environmental awareness about the safety and use of these petrochemical-based products. Today, materials can meet the specifications of FDA requirements, and other health and safety related regulations. Producers are also cooperating to create products that can be recycled.

Seamless welding technology in the car mold shown excellent welding performance, improved part accuracy, finish and appearance of observability, to shorten the manufacturing cycle of the mold.As the global market demand for high quality components increasing, people can improve part accuracy and seamless welding technology more and more popular. Recently, Japan Makino Inc. (Makino) coalition partners successfully developed a new type of seamless welding technology, which can effectively eliminate the mold between the weld, transfer lines and parting line. The key process using advanced technology and vertical machining centers, can radically new approach to production molds, while the injection molding process, the use of a highly efficient heating and cooling cycle. This new technology is not yet patented, Makino for its development of related processing applications.

Using seamless welding technology can not only help eliminate mold seam, but also a corresponding increase parts accuracy, finish and appearance of observability. At the same time, seamless welding technology in injection molding process of implementing a highly efficient control, shortening the processing cycle of the mold. As the technology products with excellent surface finish, so do not need to use secondary plating and annealing, thus avoiding the contraction caused by the size of secondary changes. This technique applies to most of the plastic resin and glass filled materials, particularly suitable for automotive instrument panels, laptop computer case, TV and digital camera processing devices such as shell, is also applicable to large scale display devices and automotive exterior parts processing.
New Mold Seamless Welding Technology

In the past, the production process of the mold, cooling lines near the surface arranged in the mold, the product is not always uniform surface finish. In some relatively new technology, through the mold core and cavity cooling water pipeline set in the resin near the injection region, can produce a better product quality guarantee.The new seamless welding technology used in modern machine tools and some new technology. According to the new technology, process requirements, processing similar to the mesh of the mold core and cavity, in order to prevent its movement and the second fixture, use the fourth axis milling machine, this can increase the tolerance dimension precisions. Board room cooling fins, and water pipelines are more widely used, and further improve product quality and seamless weld finish.

The Impact of Mold Manufacturing Process

The emergence of a new seamless welding technology designed to mold a variety of channel change and vertical machining centers with polyhedron milling possible. Forming in the actual molding process, the die channel design changes can help control heating and cooling of the best mold temperature. Through the important infiltration in diameter milling rooms, you can keep the temperature fluctuations within 60 ?. The infiltration chamber was in the back cavity milling, the same shape and mold cavity can be used as high pressure steam and cooling water channel, could play the role of cavity surface thermal conductivity, so that a more uniform temperature distribution, so as to maintain temperature control rate of temperature fluctuations.

Polyhedron with the compressed air used vertical machining center milling does not require debugging time, reduced cycle and reliability with the increase in mold production costs have been reduced. The machining centers equipped with specially designed clamp and clamp system (rotary smart clamp), with the clamping system, workpieces just installed a debug card processing can be surrounded by a mold core and cavity. Surface can alternately, continuous processing, and indexing efficiently, shorten the processing cycle and delivery time. A standard horizontal machining center is unable to achieve these characteristics.

Makino processing system designed first workpiece to a fixed point for indexing, then the corresponding surface processing. Because of the workpiece to an angle indexing, and scored according to the degree of value to move the coordinate values, the process by the CNC device control and to correct, thus eliminating the need to use the CAM software ever.Application seamless welding technology will not occur to the workpiece warpage and deformation of the mold cavity and mold core side of the mold will not cause any problems matching. In addition, since the workpiece can be tilted to avoid the ball cutters for end use only processing, extending the service life of cutter.