Nikon Coolpix P500 Review
Design
Though a P500 facilities a outrageous 36x zoom, a large, articulating 3-inch LCD as well as a solid, SLR-like grip, it weighs in during a surprisingly light-feeling 1.1 pounds. At 2.3 by 4.06 by 1.26 inches (HWD), though, it’s not small. All which space is to reason a camera’s vast wizz lens. The reason upon a right side provides a organisation reason whilst framing your shot, as well as well-placed buttons as well as switches suggest copiousness of control; a camera feels good in your hand. You get dedicated buttons for successive sharpened as well as video recording, as well as a corkscrew circle for aperture/shutter/manual-shooting settings.The lens has a vast focal length camber of 22.5 to 810mm (35mm equivalent), giving it both conspicuous strech as well as a unequivocally far-reaching angle. To give we a little viewpoint upon how distant as well as far-reaching this lens can reach, a 18x Nikon Coolpix S9100 ($329.95, 4 stars) as well as a 14x Canon PowerShot SX230 ($349.99, 4 stars), both superzoom cameras, camber usually 25-450mm as well as 28-392mm respectively. The P500′s analogous orifice of f/3.4-f/5.7 isn’t generally fast, yet even f/5.7 is a important speed when you’re zooming all a approach to 36x. You competence wish to cruise removing a monopod or tripod, yet if we unequivocally wish to take value of a full wizz capability. When lengthened all a approach to 36x, a lens becomes intensely supportive to shakes, so you’ll need to a unequivocally quick shiver speed something to stabilise a camera.
For a vast camera, a P500 has a partially small, 28.5mm2 sensor. To compare, a pocket-size Canon Powershot S95′s ($399.99, 4 stars) has a 43.3mm2 sensor, as well as larger, yet P500-size interchangeable-lens cameras identical to a Sony Alpha NEX-3 ($549.99, 4.5 stars) have even incomparable sensors).
The P500 offers 3 notable facilities which assistance copy a D-SLR experience. First is an electronic viewfinder (EVF), located usually upon tip of a LCD. It looks identical to an visual viewfinder upon an D-SLR, yet instead of a reflected perspective by a camera’s lens, it’s a 240k-dot LCD mounted identical to a viewfinder which displays a same info upon a camera’s 3-inch articulating LCD. There’s additionally a barrel-mounted wizz trigger.
Besides a common a single upon tip of a camera, an a single some-more a single upon a lens tub lets we wizz in as well as out regulating your thumb. It’s a identical prodigy to rambling an SLR’s lens to zoom. The final underline is a primer controls ride circle which can quick carry out orifice as well as shiver speed in primer or priority modes. A crack can regulate your sharpened settings when in these modes. Just identical to a D-SLR. Fully involuntary sharpened with face showing is additionally available, as have been a standard preference of stage modes.
The LCD shade is top-notch; it’s as vast as well as pointy as what you’ll find upon many pricier digital SLRs. With a fortitude of 921K dots, it’s 3 times which of many point-and-shoot cameras. The arrangement is mounted to an arm which we can lift out as well as lean up or down. It’s good to have when we have to fire with a camera upon tip of or next your head.
Still-Image Performance, Video, as well as Conclusions.
The P500 is fast, powering up as well as sharpened in an normal of 2 seconds, as well as we usually wait for 1.5 seconds in between shots. Shutter lag, a time from symbol press to design capture, is a tiny 0.5 seconds. In a Personal Computer Mag labs, we operate Imatest to objectively magnitude design quality. And a P500 incited in good opening numbers. In conditions of sharpness, a camera delivered a unequivocally pointy center-weighted normal of 1,894 lines per design height.
And a P500 can hoop low-light sharpened with aplomb. we was equates to to holder a ISO attraction up to ISO 3200 as well as sound remained next a 1.5-percent acceptability threshold. Shooting during this tall ISO equates to we can get divided though a peep indoors as well as alternative low-light situations, as well as still get clean, serviceable images. To compare, a partially little PowerShot S95 incited up an normal of 1,858 lines per design height, as well as kept sound next 1.5 percent up to as well as together with ISO 1600.
A absolute video-recording device, with a P500, we can constraint footage in high-def during thirty frames per second in possibly 1080p or 720p. You additionally jot down little high-speed video (240p during 240 fps as well as 120p during 120 fps), which is afterwards played behind during normal speeds for a slow-motion effect. You can wizz as well as refocus a vast 36x wizz lens whilst we shoot, yet both actions furnish slight buzzing as well as clicking noises which will get picked up in your recordings.
Nikon includes a mini-HDMI pier so we can block it right in to an HDTV for video as well as still-image fool around back. A exclusive USB pier (with an enclosed cable) lets we bond a camera to a computer. Since a camera annals to SD, SDHC, as well as SDXC cards, we can operate a label reader to send photos too.
If vital wizz cause is your series a single priority, a 36x Nikon Coolpix P500 delivers. While it’s costly for a single-lens point-and-shoot camera, we won’t find a further-reaching lens for a $400 price. And we get speed, good design peculiarity as well as plain low-light opening in a bargain. If we can scapegoat a little wizz for a camera which fits in your pocket, a Editors’ Choice, a a $330 18x Coolpix S9100 is many some-more compact, reduction expensive, as well as offers top-notch speed as well as performance.
Nikon Coolpix P500 Specifications
- Type : Superzoom
- Megapixels : 12.1 MP
- Media Format : Secure Digital Extended Capacity
- 35-mm Equivalent (Wide) : 22
- 35-mm Equivalent (Telephoto) : 810
- Optical Zoom : 36 x
- LCD distance : 3 inches
- HD Video Capture : Yes
