News on P7000

--Geekygagets has some late news on the upcoming Nikon P7000. Looks very interesting:

The new Nikon P7000 has a 10MP 1/1.7″ sensor the P6000 had a 13.5MP 1/1.72″ sensor that is very similar to the G11′s , a 28-200mm equivalent zoom lens with f/2.8-5.6 the P6000 had 28-112mm f/2.7-5.9 lens the G11 has 28-140mm f/2.8-4.5 lens.

Full details for Nikons new P7000 camera are still a little vague at the moment and there are no confirmed launch dates or prices at the moment.

Don't know if links are permitted here, so just google Geekygagets P7000 and it should show up.

Enjoy...

Connortn

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connortn said:

--Geekygagets has some rumors on the upcoming Nikon P7000. Looks very interesting:

Full details for Nikons new P7000 camera are still a little vague at the moment and there are no confirmed launch dates or prices at the moment.

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Vague details, no dates . . .why post this here?

Because it's fun and exciting!!!!
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Jeffrey P. Kempster said:

Because it's fun and exciting!!!!
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Agree! Because its an open forum! And you can!
Matt

I hope this fixes the flash performance, improves the ISO, and a jpeg output that is more comparable to its raw output.

I'm sure they have improved several things on it. I appreciate that they have given it even more tele than the G10 or G11. Even though at the max. tele it's at f5.6, iit will probably be equal to or slightly better than the G11 at the G11's max tele. of f4.5 at 140mm.

Let's hope this is just the beginning of improvements. I'm sure the 10mp will be appreciated by many as it allows the individual sensor sites to be larger and thus catch more light for low light photography, if they don't try overdoing the noise reduction.

Something that was an extreme annoyance to me on the P6000 was it's round about way of deleting a photo on the camera. Om my D60, all I had to do was press the "delete" button twice to erase the image showing on the back monitor. On the P6000, one had to press "delete", then it would show a menu for you to choose if you really wanted to delete the image in question. You would then have to press "down" on the 4 way control button on the back to choose "yes", and then press the "OK" button to make the picture go away for good! That's a lot of button pushing just to delete a photo. I can see where this jumping thru the hoops might be OK for someone with no or little photography experience to prevent them from accidently erasing a photo, but I think the P6000/7000 users are going to be a bit more experienced than that. Please Nikon, if you haven't made it a simple process to delete photos from your P7000, change the software to make it so before your wonderful little camera is released to the public!

I'm ready to give the new P7000 an opportunity to prove it's self. If it's anything like I hope it will be, I'll be upgrading my P6000 real soon.

Later...

Connor

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connortn said:

Something that was an extreme annoyance to me on the P6000 was it's round about way of deleting a photo on the camera. Om my D60, all I had to do was press the "delete" button twice to erase the image showing on the back monitor. On the P6000, one had to press "delete", then it would show a menu for you to choose if you really wanted to delete the image in question. You would then have to press "down" on the 4 way control button on the back to choose "yes", and then press the "OK" button to make the picture go away for good! That's a lot of button pushing just to delete a photo. I can see where this jumping thru the hoops might be OK for someone with no or little photography experience to prevent them from accidently erasing a photo, but I think the P6000/7000 users are going to be a bit more experienced than that.

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Three presses on my P6000 vs. two presses on my DSLR - I'd hardly consider it "jumping thru the hoops". Besides, you can flag any number of shots for deletion, and then delete them all at once.

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...but it is much easier in Nikon DSLRs (sort of like a double click) and it has been commented positively whenever dpreview reviews Nikon DSLRs...

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...but it is much easier in Nikon DSLRs (sort of like a double click) and it has been commented positively whenever dpreview reviews Nikon DSLRs...

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Sure it's easier - so easy & quick, I've been known to double click a photo or two I had intended to keep ;-)

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Patco
A photograph is more than a bunch of pixels

That has been up on NR for a while now. Good move to go back in resolution and finaly start looking at IQ instead of numbers.

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Correct. I would much rather push one button twice (click, click) than have to push three different buttons once to do the same thing, especially for something I'm trying to delete anyway.

Maybe camera's should have to be turned off, on, off and back on before pushing 3 or 4 different buttons when deleting something to keep us from deleting a photo that was most likely not very good to start with

Sorry....

...I'm getting facetious.
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Do you think this camera will rival the up and coming G12?
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Matt

I haven't heard of any specs on a G12. They'll have to up the ante somehow, I'm sure. A 24mm to 240mm would have been nice on either, but evidently that configuration with a 1.6/1.7 sensor size is pushing the envelope.

Speaking of which...

I wonder if it's possible to create a lens with a shallower depth of field with such a small sensor/aperature size? It's quiet hard to capture a shot with such small cameras and have a decent DOF.

The only thing I can imagine would be a flexible lens
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A bit disappointing if true. Earlier it was rumored to be a G11 killer and would have a larger sensor. The range of the P6000 was perfect, enough to be useful but not so great to degrade the image. It is looking more like a G11, me too, not better.

I like the looks and ergonomics of the Nikon P series over the Canon G series. The P6000 is a real nice camera
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Matt

MMH said:

I like the looks and ergonomics of the Nikon P series over the Canon G series.
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Matt

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--Ditto Matt! I actually have a G10 that my brother gave me. It's a nice camera. It evidently works great for a lot of people. It didn't for my brother. It doesn't for me either. I loved it's quickness, it's picture quality and longer zoom, but it just felt foreign to me to operate. That doesn't make it a bad camera, just a camera that works well for other people.

Before I bought my P6000, I tried out a lot of cameras. No, not all of them, but all that was available locally for me. I tried hard to like a few of them because the specs looked good on paper, but they felt awkward to me. I then picked up a NIkon D60, and realized quickly that it was very intuitive for me. All the buttons were where they made sense "to me" and did what "I" wanted them to do. I bought and used it for over a year and enjoyed it immensely before "I" decided a smaller camera would suit me a lot better. The first time I saw an ad for the P6000, I said "That's what a camera should look like". I especially liked the layout of all the buttons and the grip. But reviews of the camera held me back.

Long story short, I finally gave it a try and found it almost as intuitive as my D60. Almost. It's a small sensor camera, so image wise, it can't compete against the D60, but it does great for me if I keep 64 or 100 ISO film in it I would have liked a longer lens, something I didn't have for my D60 either. I would love if they had made it so I could delete a photo as easily as the D60. One button, click, click. Not one button, click, another button, click, then another button, click! I wished they had put the zoom ring around the lens instead of like everyone else's tiny knob around the shutter button. GPS? Looney Tunes? Tiny proprietary battery? No, it's not perfect, even for me

I finally sold the D60. I can carry the P6K in my pocket and it gives me great freedom to take about any shot I want. I'm learning to use it now with off camera flashes aka "Strobist", using a lens tube and some good 52mm filters. I'm loving it. I think I'm going to love the P7K even better.

What I'm saying is, whatever camera you use, if it ticks your clock, by all means use it. You'll learn a lot faster if you like how it handles, and hopefully get a lot better with it. If my P6K said "Holga" on it, I'd still use it over any other camera I've tried. It doesn't matter who made it "to me", because "for me", it works... and works well.

May your's work even better!

Connor

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Put a bigger sensor in it, then you have to have larger lenses and loose the small overall size of the small sensor design with the collapsing lens. You might as well have a D40. And the brands that have the larger sensor have rendered themselves useless as they left off the viewfinder so to make them usable you have to add a viewfinder on top of the camera making it even bulkier.

RAL said:

Put a bigger sensor in it, then you have to have larger lenses and loose the small overall size of the small sensor design with the collapsing lens. You might as well have a D40.

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Yep, fast f/2.8 28-200mm lenses on a large sensor camera have to be big.

This is the Minolta A1, with a large 2/3" sensor (but only slightly larger than 1/1.7"), and a 28-200mm f2.8-3.5 lens:



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Patco
A photograph is more than a bunch of pixels

My speciality is low-key portraits - black background, not much light. A while ago I owned a P5100 which produced great results, but only when it didn't miss focus - I found the process of acquiring focus to be too slow. I then used a Panasonic G1 for quite a long time - mostly very good, quick to focus but as I'm getting older found it a bit heavy on a long session with flashgun and bracket, so I recently sold it in favour of the Samsung EX1. After one long session I returned that for having the same problem as the P5100. I've since had a long play with the Canon G11, to find that that too was very slow focussing. I've currently got a Panasonic LX5 on order, but if this P7000 can focus relatively quickly in lowish light that might be the one for me. Looking forward to reading the specs. and early comments, perhaps later on today !

Ray

This is such a beauty of a camera. I almost bought one last year, store demo at Ritz, but I didn't want to give $600 and I was afraid no one would know how to work on it now. But, the viewfinder is magnificent and the camera is just so impressive. OK, I'll rest now.
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