Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Nikon Coolpix P100 Review

The P100 is the first bridge Coolpix Nikon camera with full HD resolution of 1080p movie recording with stereo sound, but also has a remarkable 26x Nikon ED VR zoom lens. That and make a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor packaging makes it a terrible sight bridge-style compact camera.

The camera lens dominates the design and with its premium Nikon ED glass, which is an essential piece of optics, in fact. But that is no problem in the treatment, the camera is easily in the hand, and despite the extended lens protruding from the front, handling is very good, thanks to the shaped handle, on which the shutter button, ON/OFF button, the zoom lens control, which surrounds the shutter button is located. The dimensions of 114.4 x 82.7 x read as 98.6mm and it weighs 481g.

Apart from the 26mm to 678mm lens and the NEAT handle control over the layout, another important feature, which immediately obvious is the great – and good service – 3-inch, tilting and pivoting (Tilt and flip, but not turn on monitor), making movies, picture viewing and composition, a relative breeze. The screen is clear and bright, thanks to its 460 000 pixels. The Vari-Angle Control means you their point of view can look from just above or downward, from 45-degree angle to the top with the screen flush against the body or by the extension of the screen, the strut, at a distance from the body, all Suitable for tripod use, for example.

Easy to use in bright light conditions, the monitor’s low, anti-reflection coating and still has a small electronic viewfinder or EVF, secured switched via a small button next to the EVF. The 230,000-dot resolution is just okay, but color balance and critical evaluation of image, we say that gravity is not nearly as easy as with the larger screen to do. But at least it’s a good back-up for savings and or where it is too bright to use the larger screen effectively. A small, rather underpowered pop-up flash is embedded in the housing EVF and stereo speaker array (of course, traditionally, the location of the pentaprism viewfinder on a DSLR) and are activated manually or automatically, depending on whether you are in the automated or manual control options, which more shortly on.

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A large dial plate, was sitting right next to the flash housing and the ON /OFF button has two main parts, one for automatic modes, and one for manual control options. These are pretty much as you would expect a quick access to scene modes and settings. It’s the full suite of manual settings, as one would expect, more interesting, including full manual control, but perhaps because access to the camera other wise very Kittery. For starters, you can receive all the known car-(green) setting, there is a scene that a car Selector will choose based on the subject before the lens, and seems to be in a position to do well.

There are four main menus for camera recording, film recording, playback and settings. Everyone has use of options for you Tabbed pages and select and send, if you are not sure what each menu item are, then you can explain a help system that the settings by accessing the lens zoom control.

HD movie quality is very good with a max 1080p, the stereo-sound setup is nice to have, but without an external speaker, and operation of the zoom lens makes a rather annoying buzzing in your recordings. At least you can zoom while filming, but the AF is a real struggle to keep up. Movie quality is good and thanks to the (VR, Vibration Reduction) system on the hand, the camera with longer focal lengths, if either still and movie recording is only possible … only.

An easy question we had, the fact is there a lack of direct control over the body, frustrating, including for example the ISO, the quick routes into flash, exposure compensation and macro shots are the norm, but during this one feature-rich camera, many of his best pieces in the menus hidden.

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Clever tools like the above and others such as the High Dynamic Range (HDR) capture and multiple exposure show mentioned how a high level of this camera also offers advanced controls for the less experienced users if they want to use it. Advanced users can find access to them, but a little slow.

In terms of image quality is still the first thing of note the excellent automatic white balance (WB), which was really good, even in mixed lighting, some of the best results we summarized from the recent and seen the benefits for your images works clearly better white balance makes them look natural.

The color is also the default mode, a good natural-looking (although the usual range of settings such as vivid and monochrome, you can play with) and the sheer amount of detail is excellent, the CMOS sensor is a new design, which has a backlit technology to improve low light noise performance, as the amount of light each pixel is replaced by AIDS.

The low sensitivity to noise performance is very good, the lower ISOs benefit from the new sensor technology, and the higher settings, where up to ISO 800 it looks really good. But as you get on the higher settings things less well, but not dramatic. In fact, this is one of the best benefits of the ISO have seen compact we, so top marks for Nikon’s inventors, as they have obviously worked very hard on this camera to alleviate noise problems do not just keep to a minimum, but in fact the Show Management in color as well as to preserve, even at ISO 3200.

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