The slim, 6.1 mega pixel Nikon Cool pix S9 is a high compact digital camera. Its easy to use functions and style makes any one to become a professional photographer with greater confidence. This digital camera comes with a 2.5 inch digital CCD display. The Nikon brand of digital camera, always use the Nikon lens and similarly the Nikon cool pix S9 uses Nikon ED zoom lens. The digital zoom capacity in the camera is 4X. The camera can capture up to 6.1 million colors. This is with the function of auto focus. It can capture image of any size like TV size, PC size, High and normal size. The data loss in this kind of camera is less and it is next only to the Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera.

The storage of the Nikon cool pix S9 has both the options of internal and external memory. The internal memory is just around twenty four mega byte. The SD card slot can be used as external memory and it can be extended up to four Giga Byte. Supporting various modes like the night mode, party mode, landscape, portrait, auto mode etc the camera supports a wide range of file formats. The most common formats it supports are the JPEG format and the Quick Time Motion format. The technology used in the aperture is the electro magnetic controlled preset aperture and alsohas white balance. The sensitivity is constrained to ISO 64 standard. It has a self timer mode of ten seconds duration.