Until about a year ago I had a Canon G11, G10 and G9 before. The G12 I have not bought because of the folding monitor. I was always afraid this break sometime. Also my screen was too small.
Nikon Coolpix P7100 Now then.
When first unpacking and in-hand take-I was immediately impressed: a solid block of magnesium alloy combined with high-quality plastic. The whole quite edgy and full of an incredible number of knobs and buttons. I like that!
The wheels at the front and top are made of metal and will feel very good when operating at. It's just fun to operate the camera. Even if I'm sitting in the car and the camera is off, I like to play around with it. Herrlich.
When you first turn the clear and current with 921 'pixels display, I noticed. The ability to fold the display up and down like it very much and much better resolved than the competition.
The P7100 is well and safe even with my big hands.
The viewfinder is rather small and in my opinion not appropriate ideal. I would rather have seen him on the left side. So I have always all the camera in front of the face and nose on the screen - whether left or right-gazer. Pleasantly surprised I am by the fact that I through the optical viewfinder at the wide angle lens not see (see G11 and Fujifilm X10). Prima.
Operating the camera follows the already known Nikon construction. Because of the sheer inexhaustible settings of the camera an extended look at the accompanying manual is recommended. Otherwise a lot of potential of the camera is not being used.
The focal length range of 28-200 seem now enshrined in Nikon and Canon. Too bad, I wish in a wide angle 24 Well, you can not have everything.
If you have dealt with the structure of the menu, the layout of the controls and the possibilities of the camera (I wanted there once incorporated by the way, had to then but retreat times and read in peace and try before I use the potential rudimentary could), the operation is quick and almost intuitively obvious.
The picture quality is in this class in my eyes 1A.
The colors are fairly neutral, I find the automatic white balance particularly successful.
Noise I see light at ISO 800, very clear about it. The Night mode is a joke and imho just a marketing gimmick. If you look can also save.
As already several times to read, is a sensor format 1/7 "unable to copy the qualities of an APS-C sensor. The topic Cropping is naturally different here to see than APS-C or even M4 / 3 System.
The camera is the perfect complement to the D-SLR, when a focal length range is in demand, which can not be covered by the Great. In addition, I feel the P7100 as a way to bridge the gap between compact and D-SLR. As 'the-one-and-only' the P7100 is quite suitable. The camera takes great pictures even in automatic mode. Should order to exploit the potential one but want to deal with the operation and can. Otherwise, people are jumping on the wrong horse. For Point-and-shoot photographers there are better alternatives.
Strong buy recommendation with 5 stars.
