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<p>With its plethora of features and manual controls, the P6000 (which replaces the P5100) is - of all the cameras in its class - the one that gets closest to delivering SLR style control and handling in a truly pocketable format. . As you would expect Nikon has increased the megapixel count on the new model, but fortunately hasn't stopped there. The lens now offers a 28mm wide angle (from 35mm on the P5100) and the P6000 is also one of the first digital cameras featuring a built-in GPS receiver for geo-coding your images, and even has wired LAN connectivity. JPEG image quality is something of a mixed bag, but the inclusion of a raw mode does at least give you the option to fine tune the processing to your own taste.</p>
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| Announced: | Aug 7, 2008 |
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Opinion: I've posted a quote from imaging-resource.com regarding the P6000 I hope is useful for .NEF users and for Mac users to carefully consider before buying this camera.
"The Nikon Coolpix P6000 offers a Raw file format, but not the company's well-known .NEF - instead, P6000 Raw images are stored in .NRW "Coolpix RAW". This file format can be opened and the images edited in-camera, and the same is true for Windows PCs using the Windows Imaging Component or Nikon's ViewNX software. Unfortunately, the .NRW format is incompatible with Nikon's Capture NX or Capture NX2, and other third-party applications that support .NEF files. At the current time it seem Mac OS users are rather left out in the dark, with no way to open .NRW files on their platform since ViewNX only supports the format on Windows machines."
Opinion: For all MAC-users! Nikon updated the software ViewNX to version 1.2 so image display support for NRW-
format RAW images captured with the P6000 has been added. However, these images
cannot be developed or edited... For more information, please read: macupdate.com -> search for ViewNX
Opinion: The picture this camera takes is very good as a backup to my D700 and D90. It is very
comparable to the pictures I get with my G9. It has some quirks that I am sure Nikon
can fix with a firmware update which they have done in the past via online and using
a SD card, pretty simple. The N2 software if you use it can be a problem as some
viewers stated but I use iPhoto and Aperture and Photoshop via Mac, and I haven't
had a chance to test the RAW feature in either of these programs.
Problems: RAW can be an issue with some software, but I am sure this can be fixed via updates.
Some of the functions are hard getting use to, GPS and MyPicture Town should be
easier to use.
Pushing Megapixel once again, no need for it on this camera or many others.
Opinion: I am not an owner of the P6000 --- but wanted to update the discussion on the RAW
issue to point out that Apple has updated both iPhoto and Aperature to support this
camera's RAW format.
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