Nikon Coolpix P80
The point of purchasing a camera is to capture a moment or a collection of time to show to friends, family or reliving the memories. By researching Nikon Coolpix P80, you have stepped in the right direction. You are getting the convenience of a point and shoot but the advanced features of a D-SLR.
Speaking of Advanced features, I am going to give you the inside look. We are going to start with the powerful 18x Optical wide-angle zoom and for all you tech heads 4.7-84.2mm (35mm [135] format picture angle: 27-486mm); f/2.8-4.5. Simply put, this camera has great zoom. Zoom comes into play when you want to get really close shots of a flower or shooting from the top of a mountain.
When shooting from the top of a mountain and using the zoom at the camera’s fullest potential you may encounter shacking. Nikon has integrated Image-sensor shift that will help reduce shacking and blurry pictures. And of course blurry photos are just not
fun
Now, lets discuss how Nikon is trying to bridge the gap between the point and shoot cameras and D-SLR. Point and shoot camera is a simple tools to capture pictures and D-SLR are the more complex way to capture pictures. When I say complex, I mean you are able to control the focal length, how long the shutter says open and how light sensitive the camera is.
Set the camera to Manual Mode on the Nikon Coolpix p80, you are able to control everything. You can now have the ability to shoot really fancy lightning shots, poster style river pictures and more. You can set the shutter speed slow to capture cars driving at night and the lights streak across the photos. Or Speed up the shutter to capture a humming bird in flight. The possibilities are endless and most exciting part of controlling your photos are creating your own style.
If you don’t want to manually control all the settings you have a few options to isolate some features. You have the option to set your cameras to:
When shooting from the top of a mountain and using the zoom at the camera’s fullest potential you may encounter shacking. Nikon has integrated Image-sensor shift that will help reduce shacking and blurry pictures. And of course blurry photos are just not
fun
Now, lets discuss how Nikon is trying to bridge the gap between the point and shoot cameras and D-SLR. Point and shoot camera is a simple tools to capture pictures and D-SLR are the more complex way to capture pictures. When I say complex, I mean you are able to control the focal length, how long the shutter says open and how light sensitive the camera is.
Set the camera to Manual Mode on the Nikon Coolpix p80, you are able to control everything. You can now have the ability to shoot really fancy lightning shots, poster style river pictures and more. You can set the shutter speed slow to capture cars driving at night and the lights streak across the photos. Or Speed up the shutter to capture a humming bird in flight. The possibilities are endless and most exciting part of controlling your photos are creating your own style.
If you don’t want to manually control all the settings you have a few options to isolate some features. You have the option to set your cameras to:
- Aperture-Priority Auto (A)
- Auto
- Manual (M)
- Programmed Auto (P)
- Scene
- Shutter-Priority Auto (S)
Are you feeling overwhelmed with all the technical advancements of this camera? The camera has two different personalities, one is the over technical biologist student and the other is the simple element teachers. The Teacher has so much information in your bag but turns the information into simple activities to allow the students to learn the concepts.
Place the dial to Scene and choose one the many options. The camera has already decided what needs to be done.
Place the dial to Scene and choose one the many options. The camera has already decided what needs to be done.
- Back Light
- Beach/Snow
- Close Up
- Copy
- Dusk/Dawn
- Face-Priority AF
- Fireworks Show
- Landscape
- Museum
- Night Landscape
- Night Portrait
- Panorama Assist
- Party
- Portrait
- Sports
- Sunset
- Voice Recording
There are options for white balance as well. Take a dive into control the functions yourself or use these presets.
- Auto
- Cloudy
- Daylight
- Flash
- Fluorescent
- Incandescent
- White Balance Preset
Pros:
- Powerful features such as Manual Mode or Aperture-Priority Auto (A)
- A great collection of Scene modes
- Rechargeable Battery
- ISO sensitivity 64-6400
- Versatile flash features
Cons
- Slow uploading to computers
- Washed out photos in bight sun
- Decrease quality at 18X
- Does not have RAW File
- Rechargeable Battery (if you forget to charge)
The Conclusion, great camera if you want to dive into the D-SLR realm or have a very powerful point and shoot cameras. I hope you benefited from this article and you are one step closer to capture unforgettable memories.