Ten Tools That Reshaped Photography In 2012

Let us be the first to admit it: On the surface, the Nikon Coolpix S800c is a rather unremarkable camera. But with this unassuming 16-megapixel point-and-shoot, Nikon has made sharing photos easier than it’s ever been. Last year, electronics makers began (seemingly indiscriminately) to add Wi-Fi radios to their devices. Cameras were no exception: “Now you can upload photos to Facebook from your camera!” Except, not really. The interfaces were so unintuitive that they weren’t worth the trouble. Nikon took a different tack, installing the most popular smartphone operating system, Google Android, on the Wi-Fi-enabled S800c, giving photographers access to all the familiar tools—Instagram, Adobe Photoshop Express—in the Google Play app store. Now they can shoot, edit and share right from the camera’s 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen. $350, nikonusa.com