Nikon Coolpix P100 Digital Camera Review

The Nikon P100  Digital Camera offers one of the most versatile zoom ratios available today on a small and compact digital camera.

With a size that’s a touch bigger than a compact camera would be the Nikon P100 is still small enough to fit in a purse.

As mentioned before, the Nikon P100 offers a fantastic zoom lens ration that has to be the biggest of all the digital camera reviews I have made to date, at 26x optical zoom that covers th e focal lengths of 26mm on the wide side and 678mm on  the telephoto end of the zoom rati0.

With a DSLR you would have to spend thousands of dollars on an exotic zoom lens that would extend to 600mm.

But the New Nikon P100 isn’t just about zoom ratios, although that is the most impressive  feature set with this nikon digital camera. 10 megapixels offers mor than enough resolution for poster sized prints and the big and bright 3.0 inch high resolution lcd display offers the neat and useful variable angle lcd display that rotates and spins to allow you to compose and review your photos via any angle so that you can make great photos even if the angles you want to shoot aren’t comfortable or easy to shoot from. The LCD display offers flexibility in shooting that earlier digital cameras could not provide.

HD video recording is standard on this new Nikon as most digital cameras in 2010 offer this feature and the Nikon P100 does not disappoint with HD movies recorded at full HD 1020p resolution with stereo sound recording and up to two hour  of recording time.

One of the newer technologies that is used in the Nikon P100 is nikon’s new Backside Illumination CMOS sensor. What this provides is better technology  when shooting dark or at night scenes by merging data from the same scene into one image – quite similar  in how HDR photography works: the camera records the best exposures from each scene and then combines them so that you get  blacks with detail and whites also retain the detail that would otherwise be lost when using CMOS sensors with older technology  or without this feature.

The Smart Portrat system  built into this digital camera results in better portraits or photos of your friends and family. Use the skin softening feature to  smooth the skin tone yet still maintain sharp details in the image where needed. Your have the ability to make your friends and family look their best when photographed with the Nikon P100.

The Nikon P100 has a MSRP of  $399.95 but you can do much better on price by buying the Nikon P100 through popular retail stores such as Amazon,  Ritz, B+H and Adorama. Street Prices for the Nikon P100 are currently priced just under $350 from these digital camera stores.