World's smallest digital SLR camera

Nikon Corp on Wednesday announced the Feb 5 release of the D5500, a Nikon DX-format digital SLR camera. The D5500 is the world's smallest, lightest and slimmest digital SLR camera, and the first Nikon digital SLR camera to be equipped with a touch screen vari-angle LCD monitor that supports intuitive touch operation as well as a built-in Wi-Fi® function.

The D5500 offers superior image quality and rich reproduction capabilities for excellent detail with an effective pixel count of 24.2-million pixels, a Nikon DX-format CMOS sensor, and the EXPEED 4 image-processing engine.

Adoption of a monocoque structure made of a carbon-fiber composite material, and a completely new layout for the internal structure have achieved a smaller, lighter, and slimmer camera while preserving great strength and durability. In addition, the slimmer body makes for a deeper grip that provides a firmer, steadier hold as well as superior portability.

The D5500 supports a broad range of standard sensitivities, from ISO 100 to 25600, for superior image quality that is stable and reliable, even with shooting in dimly lit situations. What's more, Super Vivid, Pop, and Photo Illustration options have been added to Special Effects mode, one of the functions that supports the rich power of expression possible with the D5500 with selection and specification of a variety of effects with shooting, making photography even more fun.

Actor Shun Oguri, who appears in the ad campaign for the camera billed as the Family Nikon, was on hand to promote camera. “I’ve always been a fan of Nikon cameras and I enjoyed taking pictures on this one's touch panel very much.”

In the Nikon commercial, Oguri acts as a dad taking multiple shots of his children in various situations. Oguri is married to model Yu Yamada and the couple recently had their first child.

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