{"id":1228,"date":"2008-12-27T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2008-12-29T23:20:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:20:46","slug":"a-quick-dirty-camera-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/a-quick-dirty-camera-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick & Dirty Camera Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned yesterday that I’d bought a Nikon Coolpix P80<\/a> digital camera. As general rule I’m not a fan of “point and shoot” cameras but I’ve always kept one handy for family get-togethers or other times when trotting out a full size SLR isn’t convenient or practical… If you’ve ever been crawling around the inside of a vintage aircraft like B-17 or B-24 you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

Anyway on with the review… I promise I’m not going to bore you with specs or long winded analysis.<\/p>\n

The P80 is what’s called a bridge camera by that I mean it’s designed to fill that niche between full sized digital SLR and basic “point and shot” cameras. It’s quite a bit bulkier than it’s pocket sized cousins but it’s smaller than and SLR. The P80 has a a relatively fast f\/2.8 to f\/4.5 18x optical zoom lens that’s equivalent to a 27mm to 486mm zoom lens on 35mm camera.<\/p>\n

The P80 has all the automatic point and click simplicity of it’s smaller cousins and adds the Aperture priority, Shutter priority and manual exposure modes you’ll find on a digital SLR. I didn’t spend a lot of time testing the manual exposure mode… It’s a little awkward to use but I suspect with practice I could get comfortable with it.<\/p>\n

Overall I’m quite happy with the P80 it has the flexibility I want without the bulk of an SLR my only complaint is that it doesn’t support RAW.<\/p>\n

I posted a few sample pictures yesterday<\/a> and I’ll add a few more here:<\/p>\n

\"Exposure<\/a>
Exposure Info: Normal Program, f\/4.5 @ 1\/147 sec. ISO: 64 Focal length in 35mm film: 486mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Exposure<\/a>
Exposure Info: Normal Program, f\/4.5 @ 1\/60 sec. ISO: 205 Focal length in 35mm film: 155mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Exposure<\/a>
Exposure Info: Normal Program, f\/4 @ 1\/60 sec. ISO: 64 Focal length in 35mm film: 93mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned yesterday that I’d bought a Nikon Coolpix P80 digital camera. As general rule I’m not a fan of “point and shoot” cameras but I’ve always kept one handy for family get-togethers or other times when trotting out a full size SLR isn’t convenient or practical… If you’ve ever been crawling around the inside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[97],"tags":[390,389],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-photography","tag-coolpix-p80","tag-nikon","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-jO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1219,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/26\/first-photos-from-my-new-camera\/","url_meta":{"origin":1228,"position":0},"title":"First Photos From My New Camera","author":"Jeff","date":"December 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I picked up a new camera this morning, a Nikon Coolpix P80. 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