Excellent macro

shutter lag disasterous

Excellent macro,insects and flowers brilliant.Other shots shutter lag hopeless. None the less its my exclusive macro camera,no complaints there at all

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If its not bought from a dealer you can just about forget it

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Takes beautiful crystal clear outdoor pictures

Ridiculously long shutter lag. Inability to focus in anything other than moderately bright light

The Nikon Coolpix takes beautiful outdoor pictures. They are stunning to look at. However it's low light performance is an absolute joke. In anything other than good lighting , the camera won't be able to focus at all. The camera also has a terrible shutter lag that will have subjects walking away before you can even get a "green light".

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Coolpix 900

- Good hand handling - Finition - Flip Flop swivel LCD (copied on CANON)

- Very Bad Auto White balance (out door & Indoor) - Bad color rendition (too much blue) - Bad flash coverage (darker corners) - Obligation to buy Teleconverter (28-85) - Very bad interpollation (same sharpness than a 3.1 megapixel camera) - Price (come on Mr Nikon)

I was very hurry to test that one but the results are not there. Where is the 1 million pixel more than the G2 ? Same file size (27x35 inches). Same sharpness than a 3.3 mega pixel ! The G2 is still the best choice

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Strong build, great optics and resolution, handy size.

could use a poor-lighting assist

After getting used to the controls and menus, the camera begins to feel more intuitive. The small size allows uyou to carry it in your pocket (mind the lint!) like a point-and-shootbut the results are spectacular like a fully loaded SLR. This is my first experience with digital and I am hooked. Nikon quality, solid magnesium alloy body and great optics make this a delight to use.

Customer Service

N/A, but Nikon has been good in the past. Get a USA warranty, not gray-market

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Nikon N80 SLR

Full control options, good handfeel, compact and excellent photo quality including macros.

Light photo cell easily blocked if not careful, must move lens cap before turn it on, needs adapter for filters. May take some time to learn for beginners.

This is my second digital camera, the first one was a Canon S20. The Nikon Coolpix 5000 has all the features I need, and compared to other prosumer DC, IMO it has best hand feel. I am happy I have bought this one.

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Not used

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Canon S20

Rapid shutter response Excellent picture quality User options External hot shoe

New Technology is EXPENSIVE My list of identified “opportunities for improvement” (oh how I love to hate that expression) is made up mostly of minor shortcomings. First the LCD screen, while I appreciate the fact the it folds out from the camera and swivels, is noticeably darker when used folded into the back of the camera (with the screen facing the operator :-) than it is when used to the left of the camera. This is most noticeable when photographing in poorly lit conditions. If you are having difficulty seeing your image on the LCD even after you adjust for brightness try unfolding the LCD screen so that it is to the left of the camera body as this may help you as well. Next, it would certainly have been nice for the CP-5000 to have fully supported Nikon speedlights. If you own a Nikon speedlight that has the ability to zoom with your SLR (i.e. SB-50DX) you may be surprised to learn that the CP-5000 requires you to make this adjustment manually on the flash. It would also have been appreciated if some type of auto-focus assist for low light shooting were supported. While the “what’s in the box” package has certainly improved over the CP-880. I can’t figure out why Nikon would

Now for the good stuff! Build quality feels very sound for a digital camera and the camera feels at home in my hands. Auto focus is fast and accurate but most importantly pre-focus shutter lag is now a memory. Wow is this digicam fast. I have read some “user” comments on different websites that put the CP-5000 down and am left wondering if the people who provided feedback actually used the camera. The results I have attained to date have been remarkable. We have had two 8x10 prints made by a lab and I cannot tell the difference between our digital 8x10’s and those I have made in the past from color print film. It is really that good! To my untrained eye, this camera produces images every bit the equal to color print film at least up to the 8x10 size. I am not only referencing detail but also color reproduction. This camera is capable of reproducing colors as well as those obtained from my SLR using good film and processing. I have not made enlargements beyond the 8x10 size from the CP-5000 as of yet and will update this review when we have the need for a larger print. The CP-5000 has proven to be a very flexible camera. While it can be easily used as a fully automatic point and shoot it also offers an interested user the option to control settings. Want to use a manual focus, set the white balance, spot meter, etc., etc.? No problem, the CP-5000 gives you the opportunity. Image storage provided with the camera comes in the form of a 32-megabyte compact flash card. At the highest resolution the 32MB card is big enough to test all of the quality options including High. I mention this only because the 8MB card supplied with the CP-880 was to small to test the TIFF mode. With the CP-5000 and a 32MB card you will be able to capture 2 images on High resolution (no compression), 13 images rated Fine, 26 images rated Normal, and 51 at the Basic setting. As was the case with the CP-880 the Fine setting produces images that appear as good to my eye as the High setting (TIFF). A word of caution, if you decide to use the High setting your file size will be about 14 MB per image which makes for slower transfer to your computer. When working with the image editing software on my PC it is difficult to see an improvement to the photos I’m working with. This is certainly appreciated, as I am not afforded large blocks of time to correct brightness, contrast, color

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Not needed

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Compact size, well built. nice LCD. Picture quality is good. Alot accesories available battery life is better than I expected great min close focus distance, 2cm. external speedlite flash

slow lens. need adapter to use filters. if use a filter adapter to just add a UV protection filter, it is not compact anymore. Very hard for me to imagine using a filter with a Nikon lens hood together, it is not going to work easily on nikon expensive accesories. this should not happen in a pro-consumer level camera. simply put, not straight forward enough. internal flash is not really off when using a external flash unit.

It is a compact, well built digital camera. There are a few things I like , and some I don''''t. Anyway, the main reason I chose Coolpix5000 over G1 is the nikon speedlite hot shoe. over all, I like the camera, but it is pretty expensive to own. I only hope that I can use it as often as possible.

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n/a

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It looks cool.

Many, Many, Many.....

Total disappointment. Had high hopes for this camera coming from a long line of successful Coolpix cameras. This camera should not have the Nikon label on it. Terrible washed out pictures, pitiful built in flash output, pictures are not sharp and this is one of the hardest digicams to focus in my opinion. Stay away!

Customer Service

none.

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Compact feel, build quality, flash power & accuracy, 800 ASA performance, metering accuracy, macro performance.

Ease of learning & use, placement of flash sensor, no lens protection filter possible without bulky adapter.

A great compact feel - love at first site! The camera is smaller than I thought and yet fits nicely in one hand. My first Nikon, the camera is far more difficult to use than Canon - controls are not at all placed / sequenced intuitively. The flash is excellent though sensor placement is a real disaster, as can be covered 30% of the time by middle finger - even though I was concious of it... The thumbwheel can be set for quick access to either user presets or things like AF mode (Matrix/spot/centre weighted) or flash - but not all of them which is bad. This means for toggling between commonly used controls you have to go down to two to three menu levels looking into the LCD which is tiresome. Image quality is GOOD. In summary, Pick up something else like G2 or Fuji 6900 if you not comfortable with complex menus. Same context, if you comfortable with such thing, look no further.

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Not tested

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Fuji Finepix 40i.

Customizing ability. Amazing flash images with SB50DX unit.

Learning curve

Absolute best digital images I have ever seen. Software glicth has been fixed and I am very impressed with the amount of control this camera gives the user. A novice will have a hard time with this one but the learning curve will be worth it! Don''t think for a minute that the manual can be ignored. For those thinking they would get a Pro D1 ($5000)in this $949 camera forget it. It is a prosumer camera and an excedptional one at that.

Customer Service

Very quick phone response to my questions. (Had I read the manual more carefully I would not have had to call)

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