Zoom in on life’s special moments with the 16-megapixel COOLPIX L840. Take amazing close-ups at family celebrations or capture nature scenes in fine detail with the 38x optical zoom, extendable to 76x Dynamic Fine Zoom¹. Scene auto selector makes taking photos of the moon or birdlife simple, while High-performance vibration reduction keeps your camera stable and your shots clear.

Explore creative shooting angles with the large LCD tilt screen and shoot smooth Full HD movies at the touch of a button. Share your favourite images instantly with built-in Wi-Fi² and NFC³ support – just by tapping your camera to a smart device³.

Record all the beautiful details of life with the COOLPIX L840.

NIKKOR 38x optical zoom lens

Capture every detail near or far, with the incredible range of the 38x optical zoom – extendable to 76x Dynamic Fine Zoom¹ – giving wide-angle coverage from 22.5-855mm.

High-performance VR (vibration reduction)

You’ll always take beautifully crisp photos and smooth movies with highly effective vibration reduction identifying and compensating for camera shake even at full zoom.

Built-in Wi-Fi and NFC support

Stay social and share fun moments with family and friends instantly, by using the one-touch Wi-Fi² button or tapping your NFC-enabled³ camera to your smart device³.

Back-illuminated 16MP CMOS image sensor

Exceptional performance is guaranteed, even when you’re shooting in low light conditions. The sensitive image sensor always gives you sharp shots with clear details.

7.5-cm/3.0-in 921k-dot LCD tilt screen

Take a different perspective with the tilt screen by shooting low-angle for a child’s eye-line or high-angle over crowds. Superb visibility makes framing shots simple.

Moon and Bird-watching modes

Easily take amazing moon shots and stunning birdlife images, with Scene auto selector enabling simple focusing and settings for these hard-to-shoot subjects.

Full HD movies: When that magic moment happens, you can switch easily from stills to beautifully smooth Full HD movies (1080/60i) at the touch of a button. Save stills during recording and edit movies in playback to delete unwanted footage.

Snap back zoom button: If you’re at full zoom and your subject moves out of frame, you can easily recapture it by pressing a one-touch button next to the zoom control that instantly takes you back to wide-angle focus.

Smart portrait mode: Enhance your images so everyone always looks great, with alerts and effects during shooting like Blink proof and Skin softening, or retouch options during playback like Glare reduction or Whiten eyes.

Side zoom control: Always get smooth movies and clear images with the side zoom control that lets you operate the zoom with your left hand, preventing camera shake and maintaining stability.

Pre focus: When the action changes, you need fast and precise focus on your subject. Pre focus activates immediately upon detecting your subject’s face, even with zoom shooting or in low light.

Target finding AF: Your camera does the work of automatically identifying and focusing on your subject for you, so you’re free to concentrate on the creative part – composing an impactful shot.

Compact body: Exceptional power is packed into a sleek, compact body that’s easy to carry on your travels and simple to operate, while a natural grip is designed to give a comfortable fit for your hand and greater stability.

18 Scene modes: Your camera can guide you to the best settings for your shooting situation. Select one of 18 different scenes that describe popular photographic styles and locations and the settings will automatically be optimised for you.

Short movie show: Make mini-movies with friends and family with this easy feature. Short movie show automatically combines a number of movie files recorded to a fixed length into a 30-second movie.

Scene auto selector: If you want to take the guesswork out of settings, your camera can automatically optimise them for you, leaving you free to focus on framing the perfect shot.

Glamour retouch: Make everyone look fabulous in your photos with retouch options in playback, including Eye shadow, Skin softening, Redden cheeks and Whiten teeth.

Special effects: Have more fun with photography by trying 9 Special effects including Nostalgic sepia or Toy camera while shooting, or applying your choice of 7 Quick effects like Fisheye or Painting during playback.

AA-size batteries: Wherever you go, you’ll never have to worry about running out of battery charge when your camera is powered by AA-size batteries, readily available around the world.

EXPEED C2: Outstanding image quality is guaranteed with Nikon’s fast and powerful image processing system ensuring high-speed operation and high-sensitivity performance.

NIKON IMAGE SPACE: Enjoy 20 GB of online cloud storage with our dedicated Nikon image storage and sharing site, NIKON IMAGE SPACE – free to all Nikon users. Find out more at www.nikonimagespace.com.

¹ Dynamic Fine Zoom can zoom 2x further than the longest optical telephoto range, while maintaining maximum image resolution.

² Requires installation of the Nikon ‘Wireless Mobile Utility’ application (iOS and Android™ compatible) on your smart device.

³ Near Field Communication (NFC) works with compatible Android™ (Android 4.0 or later) smartphones and tablets. Requires installation of the Nikon ‘Wireless Mobile Utility’ application and image-transfer setting prior to use.

    • Type

    • Compact digital camera

    • Effective pixels

    • 16.0 million (Image processing may reduce the number of effective pixels.)

    • Image sensor

    • 1/2.3-in. type CMOS, Total pixels: approx. 16.76 million

    • Lens

    • NIKKOR lens with 38x optical zoom

    • Focal length

    • 4.0 – 152 mm (angle of view equivalent to that of 22.5 – 855 mm lens in 35 mm [135] format)

    • F-number

    • f/3 – 6.5

    • Lens construction

    • 12 elements in 9 groups (3 ED lens elements)

    • Magnification

    • Up to 4x (angle of view equivalent to that of approx. 3420 mm lens in 35 mm [135] format)

    • Vibration reduction

    • Lens-shift VR (still images), Lens shift and electronic VR (movies)

    • Autofocus

    • Contrast-detect AF

    • Focus range

    • [W]: Approx. 30 cm (1 ft) to infinity, [T]: Approx. 3.5 m (11 ft) to infinity, Macro mode: Approx. 1 cm (0.4 in.) to infinity (wide-angle position) (All distances measured from center of front surface of lens)

    • AF-area mode

    • Face priority, manual with 99 focus areas, center, subject tracking, target finding AF

    • Monitor

    • 7.5 cm (3 in.) diagonal, Approx.921k-dot, wide viewing angle TFT LCD with anti-reflection coating and 5-level brightness adjustment, tiltable approx. 85° downward, approx. 90° upward

    • Frame coverage

    • Approx. 99% horizontal and vertical (compared to actual picture)

    • Frame coverage (playback mode)

    • Approx. 99% horizontal and vertical (compared to actual picture)

    • Storage media

    • SD, SDHC, SDXC, Internal memory (approx. 20 MB)

    • File system

    • DCF and Exif 2.3 compliant

    • Storage file formats

    • Still images: JPEG, Movies: MOV (Video: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Audio: LPCM stereo)

    • Image size (pixels)

    • 16M (High) [4608 x 3456 (Fine)], 16M [4608 x 3456], 8M [3264 x 2448], 4M [2272 x 1704], 2M [1600 x 1200], VGA [640 x 480], 16:9 [4608 x 2592], 1:1 [3456 x 3456]

    • ISO sensitivity

    • ISO 125 – 1600, ISO 3200, 6400 (available when using Auto mode)

    • Exposure metering

    • Matrix, center-weighted (digital zoom less than 2x), spot (digital zoom 2x or more)

    • Exposure control

    • Programmed auto exposure and exposure compensation (–2.0 – +2.0 EV in steps of 1/3 EV)

    • Shutter type

    • Mechanical and CMOS electronic shutter

    • Shutter speed

    • 1/1500 – 1s, 1/4000 s (maximum speed during high-speed continuous shooting), 4 s (Fireworks show scene mode)

    • Self-timer

    • Can be selected from 10 s and 2 s

    • Aperture

    • Electronically-controlled ND filter (–2 AV) selection

    • Aperture range

    • 2 steps (f/3 and f/6 [W])

    • Built-in flash

    • Yes

    • Flash range (approx.)

    • [W]: 0.5 – 6.9 m (1 ft 8 in.– 22 ft), [T]: 3.5 m (11 ft)

    • Flash control

    • TTL auto flash with monitor preflashes

    • USB

    • Hi-Speed USB, Supports Direct Print (PictBridge) Audio/video output connector (NTSC or PAL can be selected)

    • HDMI output

    • HDMI micro connector (Type D)

    • Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) standards

    • IEEE 802.11b/g/n (standard wireless LAN protocol)

    • Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) operating frequency

    • 2412 – 2462 MHz (1 - 11 channels)

    • Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) range (line of sight)

    • Approx. 10 m (10 yd)

    • Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) data rates (actual measured values)

    • IEEE 802.11b: 5 Mbps IEEE 802.11g: 20 Mbps IEEE 802.11n: 20 Mbps

    • Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) security

    • OPEN/WPA2

    • Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) access protocols

    • Infrastructure

    • Supported languages

    • Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

    • Power sources

    • Four LR6/L40 (AA-size) alkaline batteries, Four FR6/L91 (AA-size) lithium batteries, Four EN-MH2 rechargeable Ni-MH batteries (available separately), AC Adapter EH-67 (available separately)

    • Battery life1

    • Approx. 590 shots when using alkaline batteries, Approx. 1240 shots when using lithium batteries, Approx. 740 shots when using EN-MH2 batteries

    • Actual battery life for movie recording2

    • Approx. 1 h 35 min when using alkaline batteries, Approx. 4 h 30 min when using lithium batteries, Approx. 2 h 30 min when using EN-MH2 batteries

    • Tripod socket

    • 1/4 (ISO 1222)

    • Dimensions (W x H x D)

    • Approx. 113.5 x 78.3 x 96.0 mm (4.5 x 3.1 x 3.8 in.) (excluding projections)

    • Weight

    • Approx. 538 g ( 1 lb 3.0 oz) (including batteries and memory card)

    • Operating environment - temperature

    • 0°C – 40°C (32°F – 104°F)

    • Operating environment - humidity

    • 85% or less (no condensation)

    • Supplied accessories

    • LR6/L40 (AA-size) alkaline batteries (×4)3, Lens Cap LC-CP31 (with cord), USB Cable UC-E16, Camera Strap

  • 1. Battery life may vary depending on conditions of use, such as the interval between shots or the length of time that menus and images are displayed. The included batteries are for trial use only. Figures listed for lithium batteries are measured using commercially available FR6/L91 (AA-size) Energizer(R) Ultimate Lithium batteries.

  • 2. Individual movie files cannot exceed 4 GB in size or 29 minutes in length. Recording may end before this limit is reached if camera temperature becomes elevated.

  • 3. The included batteries are for trial use only.


  • Unless otherwise stated, all figures assume fresh LR6/L40 (AA-size) alkaline batteries and an ambient temperature of 23 {+-}3°C (73.4 {+-}5.4°F) as specified by the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA).

  • Specifications are subject to change without any notice or obligation on the part of the manufacturer.

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