The Nikon P90 might have one of the largest optical zooms but the S220 is one of the smallest cameras around. It comes in really bright colours — we got a dark pink one. It only has 3x optical zoom but a huge 10 MP resolution. The screen isn’t very impressive because of its poor viewing angles. Visuals immediately turn when you move the camera from side to side. The buttons have been shrunk as well which is fine.

There is little space aside from the screen that takes up most of the area at the back. Using and holding the camera while shooting is difficult but carrying is really easy as it fits into any space that can hold a mobile phone. It’s the same case while going through the menus. It’s easy to press the adjoining buttons. Because of the space constraints, the USB port has been moved to the bottom of the camera which also means that if you were to use the camera on a tripod, you have to remove it every single time to transfer data to the PC.

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The battery door is a little delicate and the battery size has been shrunk down as well. It’s a 740mAh battery. Nikon hasn’t had enough space to place a mode selection dial so all the menus and options have been put into a single shooting button on the camera. The menus from there on are like on a mobile phone. The user interface is a slightly more user friendly version of the one in Nikon dSLRs.

The Nikon P90 might have one of the largest optical zooms but the S220 is one of the smallest cameras around. It comes in really bright colours — we got a dark...