Nikon Nuvis S 2000 (2000s)

The Nikon Nuvis S 2000 is an Advanced Photo System (APS) compact camera. It is one of twelve Nuvis compacts Nikon produced for the format. People remember it for the shell-type design. All the outer elements hid inside the housing when it was switched off, and you switched it on by pulling the camera body sideways out of its shell. Shutterbug described it as a new version of Nikon’s clamshell-covered APS design, one with a shorter 2x zoom and a plastic shell at a list price of $225.

The lens is a Nikon 24-48mm macro zoom, a 2x range. Nikon marketed the camera as the world’s lightest shell-type 2x zoom model. It runs on a single CR-2 battery. Camerapedia calls it “one of the cutest compact zoom cameras made ever.” It has a following among APS collectors today. The film has been out of production since 2006, and the cameras are now inexpensive curiosities.

Not much else is documented. The available sources record no exact production years, ISO ranges, shutter speeds or autofocus details. Kamerastore lists the size at 90 × 61 × 29mm and the weight at 143g, but those figures come from a single source. Period reviews are scarce. The most useful contemporary note is from Shutterbug, which positioned it as the more affordable, plastic-shelled sibling in the Nuvis clamshell line.