Friday, August 17, 2012

Learn More About The Nikon Coolpix P80 Camera

By James Smith


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.

I will give you a closer look at the special features. It all starts with the 18x zoom with wide angle capabilities. For those of you who like numbers, it has 4.6-84.2 mm with f/2.8-4.5. All you really need to know is it has great zoom capabilities. Zoom is important when you are taking close ups of stationary objects or shooting from a long distance away.

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 we will explore how Nikon has managed to offer D-SLR functionality in a simple point and shoot model. D-SLR cameras are more complicated and require the user to know about light sensitivity, shutter speeds and focal length. The point and shoot is easier to use with no need to worry about complex settings. unless you want to, of course.

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 or Shutter-Priority Auto (S)

You now have a good idea of what this camera is capable of doing. photographers get two cameras in one unit. One version allows the user to control all the settings while the other does the work for you. In automatic mode, users select a setting and let the camera do the rest.

Choose any of the special effects settings with camera in Scene mode. The camera is capable of: Close Up Photos, Copy, Beach/Snow Setting, Back Light Setting, Dusk/Dawn Setting, Face Photo, Fireworks Show Setting, Landscape Setting, Panorama Assist Setting, Party Mode, Night Portraits, Portrait Setting, Sports Photos, Museum Setting, Night Landscape Mode, Voice Recording Mode or Sunset Lighting Mode

You can also control white balance. You can control the settings manually or select one of the following presets: Cloudy day photos, Flash photos, Daylight photos, Incandescent lighting, Fluorescent lighting, White Balance setting, Auto mode

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

Camera Disadvantages: Picture quality suffers at 18x zoom. Computer upload is slow. Does not include RAW file technology. Remembering to keep battery charged. Photos sometimes wash out in bright sunlight.

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.




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