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Recommended
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Nov 2007
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<p>Minor refresh of Nikon's flagship compact concentrates on improving performance, though it still feels pretty sluggish in use. The compact styling, useful (if slightly unambitious) 35-125mm equiv. 3.6x zoom, extensive manual controls and excellent build quality make it an appealing pocket camera for the serious photographer. It's capable of excellent results in the right conditions, but in low light it's painfully slow (and the results not worth the wait). A great landscape camera for the committed enthusiast wanting something small - and not too expensive - but one it's hard to recommend for more general uses.</p>
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| Announced: | Aug 30, 2007 |
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4.66
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Opinion: nice little camera - it seems to have slow focus similar to the P5000 (from what I read). Due to its handle-design it is not so easy to stow away. This is no shirt-pocket camera. Great colours in good lighting.
One needs to focus his/her mind onto taking a picture - just handing it to a bystander for a quick snapshot of the group has a high chance of producing a blurred picture. Focusing takes its time. Not recommended for taking pictures of kids or pets in motion. The focus lever is a little bit sluggish.
Problems: so far: none
I agree with the next poster that hand strap would be much more appropriate than the neck strap.
Some workflow has been upset because the camera does not have a standard mini-USB socket - must either use the special cable or take out the SD-memory-card for uploading the pics to a computer
Opinion: Beautiful small camera with features like any DSLR, I had a P5000 like it very much. The P5100 even better, improved a lots from the P5000. the shutter speed is much faster, now sound "click" instead of "gee---& wee"
picture quality is must better if you adjusted camera properly.
Problems: not so far, I wish Nikon supply a hand (wrist) strap instead of a neck strap.
Opinion: This camera is a gem. Small little camera is what I needed for nature photography and macro photography. The colour reproduction and lens sharpness is good enough for nature photography. Flash photography is just excellent with both internal and external flash head. I can now travel to mountain together with my National Geographic Tundra tripod, Nikon wide angle lens adapter and Nikon ED3X tele adapter. I just added a small little flash SB400 and it works good. Travel to Laos with it in a Lowepro Day backpack enough to stuff my Ipod and mini JBL mini speaker. It is all very versatile and small machine and it is beautiful.
Problems: Focusing is alright and faster if I shut off the internal flash off and uses an external flash like Nikon SB800. The charging time delayed the shot. This is not a problem and I can work round it. You can set it to continuous focusing mode to speed up focusing in some cases.
What more I can to ask for is a side strap that was commented earlier. Well I have resolved to use a Sony side strap that do not bear the Nikon chop. Anyway this is still a Nikon.
Opinion: What a great little camera. Feels right in the hand, controls make sense and the camera takes very natural and clear photos. Less noise than a G7 IMHO. The flash can fire at 26 ft for wide angle and 13 ft tele. G7 couldn't do that. Wow. Very well constructed and light. Many cool features like interval pictures and movies. My first Nikon, and I couldn't be happier.
Problems: Not really a problem, but in low to low light using AF illumination, the camera is a little bit slower to focus than my old G7. Not a deal breaker at all, at least it focuses. Give it a little more light and it's real fast to focus.
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