It's small, light and fits snugly in your hands. It's a 35mm single lens reflex camera with interchangeable lens capability--and best of all it's a Nikon. It's compact and lightweight design includes fully automatic focus and exposure controls, built-in flash and automatic film advance. Because it's a Nikon, the N55 will give you more possibilities for control and creativity. This camera was designed with one thing in mind--to show you how easy and exciting it can be to create beautiful images.
Compact, Lightweight Entry into the Nikon Total Imaging System
You don't need to be a pro to get a handle on this Nikon 35mm SLR. It's so compact and lightweight (12.3 oz.) that anyone can handle it. Features include an ergonomic grip with camera controls that fall naturally under your fingers. The camera is built tough with a durable metal lens mount for optical integrity...and offers you the opportunity to mount interchangeable Nikkor lenses and grow with a camera system that offers virtually limitless possibilities.
Advanced Program Mode Dial for Creative Options
Set the Mode Dial at "green-for-go" Auto and the N55 automatically sets the exposure, shutter speed and aperture controls. You can get more creative automatically, too, with the camera's five Vari-Program scene modes. Each mode optimizes the camera's settings for the most popular types of photography, leaving the photographer free to concentrate on the subject. They include Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports Continuous and Night Scene.
3-Area Dynamic AF System
To help you capture natural movement, Nikon designed the N55 with its Dynamic AF system with three focus areas that cover a wide picture-taking field to help insure sharp pictures, even when the subject is not in the center of the frame. Dynamic AF Technology uses all three sensors to maintain focus on subjects that move within the AF sensor area. The N55 selects corresponding AF sensors and maintains focus at 1.5 frames per second. Pre-wind film loading ensures the film is already back in the cassette at the end of the roll.
3D Matrix Metering
This exclusive Nikon metering system measures the entire image, analyzing details of light and contrast. Referring to an internal database of over 30,000 scenes from an enormous range of shooting conditions, the system analyzes the scene to make the ideal exposure, revealing the beauty and subtlety of color an light that made you stop and take a shot. When set to Auto mode, the N55 makes getting Nikon-quality SLR pictures simple. Look through the finder and press the shutter release. The N55 handles the rest.
Auto Pop-up Flash
The N55's automatic, built-in pop-up Speedlight flash is another feature that helps make it a snap to take the world's greatest pictures. And it offers more ways to get creative, too. In the Auto and five Vari-Program modes, the flash pops up when needed, firing automatically when light is low or the subject is backlit. A Red-Eye Reduction light is precision timed to contract the subject's pupils right before shutter release, minimizing red-eye from the picture. Slow-sync mode allows you to creatively use flash while allowing background elements and colors to fill in the frame.
Top Panel LCD Display
An easy-to-see top panel LCD shows you camera setting information at a glance, including f/stop, shutter speed, flash mode and more.
Full-Information, Adjustable Viewfinder
Most of the data on the LCD panel also appears in the viewfinder LCD, for setting adjustments without taking your eye from the viewfinder. To accommodate near- or far-sighted photographers, the N55 has a built-in diopter adjustment with settings from -1.5 to +0.8.
Product Description:
The Nikon N55 35mm SLR Camera Kit is fully automatic for simplest use yet it offers accurate TTL metering, viewing, and interchangeable lenses that only professionals have had access to. When you want to let your creativity ride, you can set the N55 to semi-automatic and manual settings. It's smart, versatile and just for you. Ability to use and change optional lenses compatible to Nikon AI and AF mount series Shutter speeds from 30 seconds to 1/2000th of a second Accessory shoe for using optional external electronic Speedlight flashes Auto film load, advance and rewind Multiple-exposure capable Body size (without lens) - 3.6 High x 5.1 Wide x 2.6 Deep Weighs about 12 ounces without batteries
Nikon N55 35mm SLR Camera with 28-80mm Zoom Lens