The Coolpix 5000 is a 5-megapixel digital camera

Digital camera

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...

 from Nikon

Nikon

, also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which...

's Coolpix series

Nikon Coolpix series

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. It was announced September 18, 2001 for an MSRP

Suggested retail price

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 of $1099 USD and featured several unique features such as a fully articulating 1.8 inches (45.7 mm) color LCD monitor that tilted and swung to virtually any angle to allow for easier framing of subjects and included audio with its movie mode function that captured 60 seconds of QuickTime

QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...

video. The Coolpix 5000 is currently discontinued.

External links

• Coolpix 5000 from Nikon
• Nikon Coolpix 5000 info from Digital Photography Review