Nikon Coolpix P6000 Digital Camera – Black (14.0MP, 4x Optical Zoom) 2.7″ LCD designed to inspire excellence. Impressive 13.5 megapixel camera with a versatile NIKKOR 4x zoom lens that lets you capture wide-angle and distant telephoto shots with ease. Advanced Exposure modes and system expandability provide outstanding versatility. Cutting-edge features include a built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) that can be set to record the exact location (latitude and longitude) where a shot was taken, and the option to capture and save images in RAW file format. The COOLPIX P6000 – designed to inspire excellence. This camera is available in black.
Helpful consumer’s review
Over the past two years I have used the high end compacts from Leica, Canon and Nikon. Up until recently I would have, and have said on here that Canon has the best compact in the G9 (soon to be replaced by the G10). Well Canon and Leica now have a real contender in the Nikon P6000.
I have had this camera for 2 weeks and I am blown away by it. At the high end you do need to have a good knowledge to get the best out of the camera but once you have read the well presented manual – which is not on a disk as per Canon you really get to know how good this camera is.
On the plus side it produces Raw and jpegs and with Vibration Reduction VR even hand held at 1/15 of a second images are pin sharp. Contrast and colour are amazing and with a wide ISO range from 64 (I think thats the lowest on any current current compact) to 6400 (I think thats the highest). I have yet to use the camera at 6400 ISO but the Canon G9 had substantial noice levels once you got above 400 ISO and if this camera performs as well as the D300, D700 or D3 at 3200/6400 then I will have nothing to complain about.
The camera has two very unique features. First it comes with GPS, so you can record the co-ordinates of all pictures taken. Great when travelling abroad or in unusual locations. Easy to set up too. The second great feature is the ability to attach a Ethernet cable to upload straight from the camera to Picture Town. Great feature though on the downside there is no Wi-Fi connection as on earlier models.
If I had to give the thumbs down to one feature it would be that the RAW files are in a new format being NRW which can only be used through Windows Vista. I am a MAc user so at themoment I can’t use the RAW files but I am hoping that soon both Aperture, Lightroom and Photoshop will have plug ins to get around this minor irritation.
