About this product. Make an offer:. Auction: Pre-owned. Stock photo. Pre-owned: Lowest price The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. All functions works and tested. See all 4 pre-owned listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. Sold by metallican79 This camera is packed with features useful for the beginner or the advanced photographer. The focal length of the Nikon P camera is a healthy This feature gives you true wide angle abilities while also letting you capture great telephoto snapshots.
The digital zoom ability is 4x, which is equal to a 3,mm camera lens. This camera prevents close-up distortions with its vibration reduction image stabilization system. The sharpness of your work can be increased with this helpful feature.
The features of the P are ably backed by a The combination of these factors makes an incredible level of detail possible. This feature really comes into its own with macro photos.
With a close-up mode that allows you to get within 0. Contributing is a 36x lens that includes full Optical Zoom. Both features allow you to get very near to subjects while preventing distortion. Taking detailed, clean images after dark or in unfavorable weather conditions is simple. The screen swivels up more than 90 degrees for easy ground-level shots, or down almost 90 degrees for over-the-crowd shots. The LCD is further enhanced with a higher-resolution screen: the , dots usually reserved for the big digital SLRs, impressive at this price point.
The K-dot EVF is a lot more granular than the rear LCD; the eyepoint is good enough, though, that my glasses don't touch the rubber eyepiece, which is better than most inexpensive SLRs. Left of the electronic viewfinder is the display selection button, with which you choose between the LCD and EVF, and the dioptric correction dial juts out from the side of the EVF.
A press on the red center button starts and stops recording. Right of that, the Command dial allows cycling through exposure options, like Program Shift, where you change the combination of shutter speed and aperture while the camera maintains the proper exposure for the scene.
When shooting in full Manual mode, pressing the right arrow key on the Four-way controller switches between aperture and shutter speed settings, which you can then adjust with the Command dial.
Menu, Playback and Delete buttons are pretty straightforward, and the Four-way controller is also easy to understand. A simple rubber pad serves as a thumbgrip, reinforced by a subtle but effective ramp at the far right. The top view shows a very SLR-like top deck, with a better look at the flash button on the left side, and the stereo mics just above the flash. The Mode dial is right of that, with pretty stiff detents, but the unfortunate ability to rest between click positions, as is inadvertently shown in our product shot at left.
I didn't have a problem with this, but it can cause confusion now and then. Almost invisible in this shot is the small black Continuous mode button, which brings up a small list of available continuous modes, including high speed, low speed, and pre-capture.
The power button is ringed by a green light when first powered on; it also gives you charge status when the Nikon P is connected to a computer or charger via USB, glowing a bright orange while charging, green when fully charged.
Small metal strap lugs are better for video, because the cloth-to-metal contact creates little noise. Nikon uses D-rings on their SLRs, which raises the likelihood of such close rattling sound entering videos made with the cameras. Sensor and processor. Normally reserved for SLRs, this section is warranted for the Nikon P, because it has some special hardware under the hood.
Its This means more light reaches each photosite. Making the deal more sweet is the new Expeed C2 dual image processor. The new processor is said by Nikon to speed up image processing, allow for more careful noise reduction, and correct lens distortion for both stills and movies before either are saved to the card.
Special video speeds and even high-speed still modes are possible thanks to this new processor. Ranging from Still, to the experienced long zoom photographer, it'll be an amazing tool. Of course, the problem with making a camera that goes to extremes is that that's where most of its users will use the camera, at least at first. Most everyone shoots pictures of their friends and social events at the default setting, which is usually the widest angle available.
The Nikon P's widest setting is too wide for most people-pictures, introducing distortion that stretches heads and distorts bodies with unflattering results. On the positive side, it grabs darn near everything that comes within sight of the lens, at least compared to any other long zoom digicam you've ever used. At the telephoto end you run into the opposite problem: Finding your desired subject among the rapidly shifting image presented in the viewfinder.
The view at mm is so tight that you'll want to start about halfway zoomed and track it in as the zoom progresses to help keep on target; otherwise it's like trying to find a star through a telescope. And once you've found it, the next problem is holding the camera steady enough to keep it framed, let alone get a blur-free shot. Nikon employs both sensor-shift image stabilization and electronic image stabilization, which we presume is digital image tracking by cropping the image somewhat and letting the processor track motion, contributing a little extra correction by moving the image capture area as well.
And even with all that, two of our most stable SLRgear stabilization-testing shooters had trouble keeping a subject centered at that focal length.
In short, the message is that experienced long zoom users seldom shoot at the extreme ends, especially for people pictures, instead zooming enough to crop the extraneous matter from the frame, leaving only the subject. That's the beauty of a zoom that's so long and so wide; you have that many more choices.
Mostly unchanged from the previous model, the Menu is comparatively well organized, with items you'd most want to change right at the top of the list: Image Quality, Image Size, Optimize image, White balance, and ISO sensitivity at the top of the list.
Auto panorama modes. The dual processors also allow for a new trick for Nikon: Easy Panorama. Rather than shoot a series of carefully captured images and have them stitched in the camera or on a computer, the Nikon P allows you to capture either degree or degree panoramic images by just pressing the shutter and sweeping the camera over the image area. It's pretty straightforward, and seems to work pretty well. Once you press the shutter button in this mode, the camera prompts you with a cross with four arrow tips, telling you that you can sweep in any one of four directions: up, down, left or right.
Once you start to move in a direction, the camera starts capturing, and a small slider appears on the bottom of the screen, indicating how much further you need to sweep. When it reaches the end, the Nikon P starts to process and save the image. It also works with the camera oriented vertically.
The degree panorama option sweeps output a 3,xpixel image, while degree sweeps yield a 6,xpixel image. The Nikon P can capture five full-resolution images at about 8 frames per second in a single burst.
That's as fast as a high-end digital SLR, though buffer depth is quite shallow. Some of the competition in this category can do up to 10 and even 40 frames per second, for reference. Separated into separate Scene modes on the Mode dial, these multi-shot modes capture several images and combine them into one to compensate for difficult lighting situations. Backlighting Scene mode, for example, captures several images at different shutter speeds to capture both the shadows and bright highlights and merge them to create a special HDR High-dynamic-range image right inside the camera; in all instances I've tried it, the camera has asked me to raise the flash before it would take the shot.
Night Landscape mode is also more sophisticated, capturing up to five high shutter speed images into one single image and combining them into one, allowing a user to get a shot in low light that would normally require a slow, non-handholdable shutter speed.
The traditional Night portrait mode, which still uses a flash the camera insists , is also enhanced by capture of separate images, one with flash, the others without, to create a well-lit image that maintains the ambient light in dark settings. Of course, there's also the new pre-capture mode, which uses the power of CMOS sensor and processor to continuously capture images before you press the shutter button; unfortunately, the Nikon P reduces the image size to 2 megapixels in this mode.
You can also opt for frames per second at 1 megapixel or 60 frames per second at 2 megapixels. Movie High Speed vs. High Definition. Movie options are split between High Speed and High Definition, and you can rapidly choose one or the other with the Movie mode switch on the back of the camera.
Which of the many modes you choose to use within those two options must be preselected in the Movie menu. Movie modes include 1, x 1, Fine, 1, x 1,, 1, x , x , and x , all at 30fps, recorded in H. High speed options include x at fps, x at fps, 1, x at 60 fps, and 1, x 1, at 15 fps.
Storage and battery. The Nikon P uses a slim 3. Easy access to the functions I want is the main feature I look for in a digital camera, and the Nikon P gives me that. Some cameras are so capable, it's blinding to dig into the menus, and you have to if you want to change major settings.
I don't feel that way with the Nikon P And as I mentioned in the menu section above, when I do go into the menus, I find what I need right up front. I like that. Wide and Tele. Yes, the window on the bottom is the window at the top of the building in the wide shot. Compared to the P, one of the Nikon P's basic features are more readily accessible: Drive modes. That's as it should be, especially in a camera with such a wide array of available drive modes.
Nikon's Best Shot Selector mode is one of the more consistently offered and consistently ignored features that now has more reason to be publicized. The fact is that even with dual image stabilization, it can be difficult to get a tack sharp shot at full telephoto with the Nikon P Its millimeters equivalent at maximum telephoto is a loooong lens, and handholding it is tough. But with BSS on, just hold the lens on target as well as you can, and hold the shutter button down.
The Nikon P will capture ten images and choose the least blurry shot to save to the card. It's not perfect, because the image jumps around so much, making it difficult to frame at mm, but it's a good idea if you really want that shot and don't have a tripod or other object at hand against which to brace the camera.
The Nikon P is just the right shape and size for a day at the airshow or the park. It's not too cumbersome hanging around your neck, and fits well in a hand when I feel the need to protect it or keep it at the ready. I love the grip, though I do worry that it might chafe a little on more tender hands with the diamond pattern it has up front. My reviewer's hands are fine so far, after two days of using the Nikon P, so those with rougher jobs than manning a keyboard all day should be just fine.
Take it all in. Even from across the street, you can still capture the height of tall buildings. Though I like the new zoom control on the left side, I find myself still using the zoom ring around the shutter, since most of the cameras I use have their zoom control there.
The body design is largely unchanged since the P, although the lens has a greater reach. The optical design of this lens contains 14 elements in nine groups and includes ED glass elements.
Physically, it consists of two barrels: an outer barrel that is fixed in place and extends approximately 60 mm from the camera body and an inner, matte plastic barrel that extends a further 50 mm when the camera is powered up and zoomed out to the maximum tele extension.
The grip is covered in finely-textured rubber and feels comfortable and secure in your hands. The shutter button with surrounding zoom lever is located at the front of the grip. A second zoom rocker, which provides more precise control, is located on the left side of the lens.
You can re-assign this rocker to control manual focusing or snap the lens back to the wide setting with the Assign Side Zoom Control function in the set-up menu. Between the grip and the lens and out of the way of your fingers is a small LED lamp that doubles as a self-timer indicator and AF-Assist illuminator.
The rear panel is dominated by a 3-inch TFT LCD monitor with a relatively high resolution of , dots and a wide viewing angle. It can be tilted through 90 degrees upwards and 82 degrees downwards — but not in other directions.
Above the monitor sits an electronic viewfinder EVF that provides a colour display with a resolution of , dots. Dioptre adjustment is available via a knurled dial on its left hand side. Like all electronic screens, the viewfinder blacks out briefly when you take a shot but recovers rapidly. Left of the viewfinder is a button for switching between monitor and EVF, while to the right sits the Display button and a lever switch with a central button for controlling movie recordings.
The lever sets the resolution while the button toggles recording on and off. A dial wheel sits close to the top right corner, with a moulded thumb rest that has a textured rubber surface just below it. The standard arrow pad, Play, Menu and Delete buttons lie further down to the right of the monitor screen. The top panel has metal strap eyelets at each end but all controls are clustered on the right side of the camera.
Both lie almost flush with the camera body. The mode dial is prominently located just right of the pop-up flash housing. A Scene mode, which accesses 16 additional pre-sets including Scene Auto Selector completes the array. The pop-up flash is raised by pressing a button on the left side of the flash housing and lowered by pushing it down.
It has a range of about 0. Paired stereo microphone grilles sit prominently between the flash and EVF housings. The memory card and battery share a single compartment in the base of the camera. The battery has to be charged via a USB cable supplied. It plugs into a port beneath a rubber cover on the left side of the camera body. The HDMI port is also located here. All the leading manufacturers have at least one model with a zoom range greater than 20x, as shown in the table below.
At first glance, the P has a lot going for it: good wide-angle coverage, conservative resolution, plenty of user-adjustable shooting modes and Full HD video recording, all at a competitive price. However, the table above only points to one deficiency: lack of raw support. Other missing features include direct access to ISO and white balance settings and no support for auto rotation of images, both of which are found on most cameras with fewer features and lower price tags.
No shortcuts are provided for adjusting metering patterns and the only focus shortcut on the arrow pad restricts you to four modes: auto, macro, infinity and manual.
Focus area selection, subject tracking, face detection, exposure bracketing, ISO and white balance and flash exposure compensation adjustments are all located in the menu and only available in the P, S,A and M shooting modes. The same is true for long exposure noise-reduction and Active D-Lighting settings. On the plus side, you get comparatively sophisticated autofocusing and metering systems, the ability to restrict ISO settings, some interesting colour effects for RGB and monochrome images and a decent-sized stereo microphone for recording soundtracks with video clips.
A couple of new modes have been added to the Scene pre-sets. Another is a Pet Portrait mode, which includes face detection. Two modes are provided for shooting panoramas. The Easy panorama mode records a sequence of shots as you pan the camera across the scene and combines them in the camera. The Panorama Assist mode provides an on-screen guide to help you line up successive shots in the sequence.
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