Using the Coolpix battery charger overseas

I have a Coolpix S210 Digital Camera and will be taking it to New Zealand for a month. I have a US-to-New Zealand plug adapter but not a 240-120 AC voltage step-down transformer. Will the Nikon battery charger convert the voltage from the wall outlet automatically, or do I need to bring a 240 to 120 AC voltage converter? The user manual does not address this issue. Thank you!

I'd get the converter just to be safe. Last you want is to brick your camera battery. Hammacher has a really good 150 country power converter for about 35.00.

Mr. James DeRuvo meant well with his answer, but as I ultimately learned - the Coolpix S210 battery charger is a dual voltage device, and needs no volatage converter. It says so right on the outside, but you must have a magnifying glass good enough to see it. Most digital camera and cell phone chargers today are marked: "Input: 100-240 VAC". The S210 is no exception. I did not know this when I submitted my question. I had the camera on order but not yet in the hand. Before the camera arrived, I contacted Nikon technical support to ask if the S210 was dual voltage, but they didn't have a clue - and in fact they told me that it would definitely need a voltage converter. Mr. DeRuvo can be excused for not being certain on this issue, but you'd think the manufacturer's technical people would have known the specifications of their company's products. My point in asking the question was to determine whether or not to include a heavy step-down transformer in my daughter's already-loaded back-pack before sending her off to New Zealand. What the charger DOES need are PLUG adapters to fit into the various electrical outlets that vary from country to country. Fortunately, the half-dozen of those I gave my daughter weighed practically nothing.

Hi James - well, that is a good point! My girls have already left for New Zealand without the converter! But that is the least of their problems - they have been quarantined and locked up in their hostile becaused they were exposed to somebody on the plane who later came down with swine flu! Bummer!

That is a drag, Gary! For how long?

Hi James:

It's been about four days so far, but they may be let go tomorrow. It has nearly wrecked their entire trip because they were on a grand tour of the entire country, on Magic Bus Lines, where they could get off for several hours, look around at the points of interest and get back on, picking up where they left off. I was able to get Qantas to wave the $2600 rescheduling fee that would otherwise have been charged to my two girls for their return flight four days later than what was originally booked. They have been taking Tamiflu for three days, have no symptoms of Swine Flu (or whatever they're calling it now) and are trying to get released from their incarceration. We have the criminal US government to thank for this prank, as all the pathologists and micro-biologists interveiwed on the English-language foreign news channels available on our Free-to-Air satellite dish are saying in unison that this virus was genetically engineered, that is, man-made, and came out of a laboratory and therefore is not naturally occurring. Indeed another report revealed that several viles of the government's swine flu cultures were missing! This most likely implicates the biological weapons lab at Fort Deatrick, Maryland, where the A.I.D.S. virus is also believed to have been developed for testing in Africa when it was put into the small pox vaccine by the equally criminal World Health Organization during the 1980's as reported by the "London Observer" back then but blacked out everywhere else. As far as I'm concerned, there's not a hot enough place in hell for the monsters who concoct these macabre expirements on unsuspecting innocent people!