Nikon has replaced the Coolpix P510 with the P520.
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Nikon Coolpix P520 announced January, 2013
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Summary Nikon P510
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The Nikon P510 vs other recent digicams
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The Nikon P510 vs other recent super zooms
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Discussion What do you think about the Nikon Coolpix P510?
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The information at www.nikonusa.com is incorrect.
The stabilisation is excellent, I get consistently good results hand held at full zoom.
The GPS works, not much more I can say on that, it doesn't need to do any more than work.
If it's battery life is short, as has been mentioned then they must be comparing it to the mighty, I've had no drama with mine, even with the GPS on I can manage a healthy session without problem. Anyway spare batteries are cheap so I don't see that as an issue for any camera nowadays.
The image quality is rather excellent for this class of camera, you don't get the lovely look from a large sensor camera but they can't zoom like a P510 does, it's all about compromises.
can you tell me if the IS works properly in video mode (mechanical+digital)? Other cameras only use the digital IS in video, which makes long zoom (>400/500mm) usage impossible without a good tripod
The quality of the pictures is my main concern. Colours look good, but this isn't a real 16.1MP camera. The images get pretty noisy. I end up taking photos at 4MP, more than 4MP is just bigger images but same quality.
It has many effects, records nice videos, and in low light conditions is pretty decent, though it tends to get yellowish pictures.
It has a full manual option, good for taking pictures with blurred lights for example or under low light but with a tripod. The max aperture is 3.0 at 24mm, so don't expect to get the effect of focusing on one object and get the rest completely blurred, not even in macro mode.
The menus are pretty fast, but if you get pictures at 16MP with fine detail (max detail), when you're seeing them, they will take like 1 second to get from previsualization quality to full quality. Now, I'm taking pictures at 4MP, so that's not a problem, I can browse through my pictures fast, just a 1/4 of a second (I'm guessing here) to get from preview quality to full quality, so barely noticeable.
You can have a lot of fun with this camera, but it's image quality it's similar to my $140 dollars Canon Powershot ELPH 100 HS.
I'd recommend the Canon SX40 HS over this one, it may have a 35X zoom but I it takes much better pictures, what's the use of having a 42x zoom while other cameras can get the same picture at 18x and then crop and get the same image quality?
Over the P500, the optical image stabilization is enough to justify the difference in price, the IS is really good in the P510, the problem is that Canon's IS is just as good. I haven't tried Panasonic's or Sony's superzooms, so I won't say anything about them.
Battery life is supposed to be weak, but I haven't experienced any problems at all, you can fool around with the camera for a couple of hours and it keeps going. Again, the Canon SX40 HS has a much bigger battery, twice as big I think.
One thing that's really good with this camera is it's feeling. It feels like it's made of really good plastics, it doesn't feel cheap at all. Everyone who saw it and held it was like "wow, this must cost like a thousand dollars". The grip is excellent too.
To sum up, like I said, it's a lot of fun to use, the LCD looks great and it's nice for filming. The thing is, for me, image quality on a camera is like sound quality on headphones, you can be the best at everything else, but if you're lacking on that point, all the other specs are pretty useless.
I'm waiting for a serious review in english, portuguese, italian or spanish (my native language). For those of you who are trying to find reviews, there are 2 i've found, but one is in German (from a Swiss site) and the other one I don't remember, think it's in Czech:
http://www.digitalliving.ch/fotografie/tests/1006096/test_nikon_coolpix_p510.html
http://www.digineff.cz/art/fo-ky/nikon-p510-prvn-zku-enosti.html
The picture of the building was taken at 1/125s, F5.9, 180mm(42x, equivalent to 1000mm), and ISO 800.
The one of the sky was just to show you that it was cloudy, and also because it's a pretty picture lol. That one was at 1/320s, F4.6, 7.7x zoom (33mm) and ISO 100.
Hope you find this review useful.
Does anybody own it? Is it good?
Is the image stabilization good?
Is the gps thing working?
I think this is what one should check to see if it's worth spending 100/120 euro more than the P500.