The Coolpix P6000 is a digital camera introduced by the 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...

 Corporation in August 2008.

The built-in GPS (to support geocoding photos

Geocoded photo

A geotagged photograph is a photograph which is associated with a geographical location by geotagging. Usually this is done by assigning at least a latitude and longitude to the image, and optionally altitude, compass bearing and other fields may also be included.In theory, every part of a picture...

 automatically) is a first in its price-range.
The Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

 port is also an unusual feature, but the camera is configured to only allow access to Nikon's my Picturetown online photo service.
The P6000 was succeeded in 2010 by the larger Coolpix 7000 which lacks GPS.

Features

• 13.5 megapixel CCD
  Charge-coupled device
  A charge-coupled device is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time...
  
   sensor
• EXPEED Image Processing
• Face-priority AF
• Bright 2.7-inch High Resolution LCD and Optical Viewfinder
• Optical Image Stabilization
  Image stabilization
  Image stabilization is a family of techniques used to reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera during exposure. Specifically, it compensates for pan and tilt of a camera or other imaging device. It is used in image-stabilized binoculars, still and video cameras, and astronomical...
  
  
• NRW – raw image format
• Active D-Lighting
• USB 2.0
• Built-in GPS receiver for auto-geotagging
  Auto-geotagging
  Real-time geotagging is a name given to the automatic technique of acquiring media , associating a specific location with the media, transferring the media to an online map and publishing the media in real time...
  
  
• magnesium alloy
  Magnesium alloy
  Magnesium alloys are mixtures of magnesium with other metals , often aluminium, zinc, manganese, silicon, copper, rare earths and zirconium. Magnesium is the lightest structural metal. Magnesium alloys have a hexagonal lattice structure, which affects the fundamental properties of these alloys...
  
   front panel
• Wireless
  Wireless
  Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
  
   Optional Remote Control ML-L3 for wireless shutter release
• VGA video

NRW – raw format

The raw image format

RAW image format

A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor...

 for the Nikon P6000 is NRW. This format is supported in Windows using the Windows Imaging Component

Windows Imaging Component

The Windows Imaging Component is a Component Object Model based imaging codec framework introduced in Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 3 for working with and processing digital images and image metadata...

(WIC) and on Mac OS X after installation of the Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.3. On other systems, it will require special software plugins. Adobe Camera Raw 4.6http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Camera_Raw_4.6 included preliminary support, and full support is provided in Adobe Camera Raw 5.2.

External links

• COOLPIX P6000 Product page at Nikon USA
• COOLPIX P6000 Product page at imaging.nikon.com
• COOLPIX P6000 at Nikon's COOLPIX microsite