Nikon Coolpix P500 – Zooming Above and Beyond

“Zoom your world using the high-powered, mind-blowing closeness from the new Coolpix P500. The 36x optical zoom breaks limitations with incredible zoom to shoot closer and wider than in the past”

Model: Nikon COOLPIX P500
Megapixel: 12.1 CMOS
Zoom: 36x NIKKOR Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens
Video: Full HD 1080p Video

Nikon Coolpix P500 Pictures:

Nikon Coolpix P500 Features:

Place yourself in the centre of the actions.

You’ve never ever been closer to the actions than you’re with this particular 36x wide-angle optical Zoom-NIKKOR ED cyrstal glass zoom lens. It’s optical zoom lens (22.5-810mm) pulls anyone in from wide panoramas to sharp close ups. In addition, a side zoom handle marks the end of unstable zooms-freeing you to capture fantastic action images with minimum blur. Therefore whether you’re shooting a mountain vista or zooming in on a snowboarder, say goodbye to have missed shots. This zoom lens catches it all. It also allows for macro capturing as near as 0.4 inches!

Beautiful pictures in not so stunning shooting conditions.

No matter if you’re looking at a midnight sky line or zooming in on a hang-glider in a sunlight saturated skies, Nikon allows you to get extraordinary pictures and movies. Having its 12.1-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, dual image processors and Nikon’s EXPEED C2 image processing engine, this frees you to shoot extremely in depth images with minimum noises and distortions.

The COOLPIX P500 is fantastic for shooting high-speed actions, therefore you’re guaranteed to catch the quickest skate boarders, skiers, and windsurfers. It’s equipped with ISO speeds up to 3200 and equipped with a five-way Vibration Reduction (VR) Image Stabilization System which cuts down on the streaky pictures associated with unstable digital cameras. The COOLPIX P500 also features a motion detector in which recognizes moving subjects then modifies the camera’s settings to make sure that you won’t miss a frame of the actions.

Whatever you need to take, the COOLPIX P500 is ready.

You’ll never ever miss a shot using this flexible digital camera since it begins right up, provides a fast auto-focus, as well as shoots out 5 shots within roughly 1 second-at full resolution. In addition, several Continuous Modes permit a number of high-speed shooting choices to a blasting 120 fps (reduced resolution).

Whenever a one picture just isn’t adequate, the extremely versatile COOLPIX P500 provides a One-Touch record button that allows you to take Full HD (1080p) movies at 30fps even while recording audio with a built-in stereo system microphone. It’s ideal for sporting occasions since it can record high-speed action in slow motion, capturing action missed by the human eye. The COOLPIX P500 even offers an HDMI-CEC output for easy playback in your HDTV or computer-so right now it’s as simple to look at your own videos as it’s to shoot all of them.

Sample Nikon P500 Pictures:

Customer Review Coolpix P500

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Positive Feedback:
I went out and shot another 200+ photos this morning.
To keep this review readable I will edit out my rant towards those that posted video reviews within days of the release notice of this camera.
A few more notes on thing I’ve “discovered” while shooting today.
I shot a couple short vids, used flash, turned off the camera multiple times and allowed it to hibernate many times, zoomed in and out and still the camera showed 1/4 of battery life left. Obviously if you’re going to use this in a photo rich environment, carry a spare battery. Always better safe than sorry.
Some reviewers said they couldn’t find any usable photos using HDR. I found it more than usable and will attach a couple photos to allow comparison.
I was using a grade 6 SD card today. That is the minimum Nikon recommends. It took approximately 13 seconds for the camera to process an HDR photo and a couple more seconds to write it to the card. Camera continues to show practically no lag time when taking standard shots. Only panoramas and HDR slow things down, with HDR certainly taking the longest. Nikon does have a progress bar that appears across the bottom so you don’t think the camera is locked up.
While using full (or near full) zoom and in Auto mode, the camera did a fair amount of searching to focus on an item while in MACRO. Since my previous Lumix TZ5 was less than optimal in low light focusing, I am used to using either PROGRAM or Aperture priority on the Nikon to achieve focus on the intended target.
In what i consider “medium light” the camera refused to allow an aperture setting to maintain an narrow field of focus.
I’m certainly not down-grading my rating of the camera. I like it very much.
Just remember it is not a DSLR. In comparison it has a tiny sensor. There are always trade-offs. I am more convinced that this camera will suit my intended uses very well. The VR at extreme zoom still impresses me, as does the low light sensitivity and noise. Yes, there’s noise, even at 560 ISO. It’s not distracting however. Wait for the camera geeks to test and publish their data (i.e. dpreview.com) to get the hard statistics. My over all impression still stands and I’m glad I took a gamble and pre-ordered this camera and was on the initial round of deliveries from Amazon.

Negative Feedback:
I have just returned my second camera for the same reason, the battery goes dead in the camera in less than 24 hours.
I have visited the Nikon website and found I am not alone with this problem. I have replaced the battery in both camera’s with original Nikon’s and an aftermarket brand, they all go dead in the camera. There is definitely some wrong in the camera that is draining the battery.
It is too bad Nikon is not addressing this problem, with a recall or a fix, because this is great camera, easy to use, super fast,with lots of great features,so unless you are prepared to buy an extra battery and have it charged and ready to use and are willing to change batteries every time you want to use the camera, wait until they correct the problem.

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