Nikon Lite-Touch Zoom120ED
Great naming Nikon very descriptive you should have thrown in AS for the apherical elements though that would have really capped it off and then you could have saved on paper by not even writing the specifications. Except I have no idea what Lite Touch means in this context, and I’m frankly afraid to Google it. You can also tell this is a good camera by the gold coloured trim (sarcasm).
So the lens as described has ED, (no not difficulty extending) extra low dispersion glass elements and also aspherical molded glass elements, but what this really means beyond the marketing is that the lens will tend to have better correction for distortions. And I think the results bear this out, I was quite pleased with the quality of the images from this camera and its several useful controls, I particularly like the infinity focus setting. Of course the lens may provide decent image quality but some of that may also be the conservative nature of it’s range. 38-120mm is neither that wide nor that long and the maximum aperatures of 5.3 to 10.5 aren’t just not fast but are slow (yes I know I could have written that clearer but Nikon could have made the lens faster and then I wouldn’t have had too).
Three later models took the zoom out to 130,140 and 150 mm before Nikon stopped developing new point and shoot 35mm film cameras around 2002.
One final point, don’t you miss the ability to irrevocably imprint the date on your images, I know I do. This is the true embedded data forget EXIF.
