Wide applicability, too sluggish for a Bridge but too little and manual options

Wide applicability, too sluggish for a Bridge but too little and manual options

Nikon Coolpix L840 Digital Camera (16 Megapixel, 38-fach opt. Zoom, 7.6 cm (3 inch) LCD display, USB 2.0, image stabilized) Red (Electronics)

Customer Review

Wide applicability, too sluggish for a Bridge but too little and manual options

As a bridge camera it should be the transition from compact to SLR range, the main competitors are likely to be Travel Zooms.
For example, see the Canon SX series from the body is very similar but is significantly lighter and smaller.
On the used 4 AA batteries / accumulators to win a hand of flexibility, on the other hand it becomes quite difficult.

With a 38-times optical zoom is now not best in class, but prepared with small picture focal length 22.5mm to 855mm for nearly all situations.
Especially the big wide angle is a real added value, you can use in practice it better zoom back than a few mm longer and the distortion here is surprisingly low.
Zooms either via a slider on the trigger (faster) or the rocker on the lens (slower). Neither is continuously and directly, it can not select focal length immediately manually.
Something on the move, for example, to catch a bird in flight, is thus very difficult.
Awkwardly also that there is no manual focus point, let alone the sharpness can set completely manually, as even some Compact can significantly longer.
Correct annoying, though, is that the camera employs in difficult situations with Fokussierversuchen long self,
What also can not break and makes the camera for several seconds unusable.
No, as I said Vorrezensenten, moving things are not your thing.

The situation is different with static objects.
Here she plays with the image stabilization and better light intensity compared to Travel Zooms out their trump cards.
By stabilizer and faster shutter speeds to succeed here more often reasonably blur-free images from the hand.
Who has a support and can be used, but they should definitely use.

Fortunately, Nikon limited to 16 megapixels, because even at ISO 100 is set to 100% already noticeable noise exists.
Well, on the other hand, that up to ISO 800 hardly comes to artefacts why I recommend Auto ISO 800 limit as standard.
Chromatic aberrations can be discerned in blue, purple and yellow in strong brightness contrasts, but mostly only easy to spot with 100% representation.
But light radiation areas affect a noticeable effect on the details. While trees in the shadow of small branches are still displayed, lose themselves in the reeds or bright plumage in the sun quickly smaller structures.
Halation and overstrained dynamics.
The reflection tilt the lens in direct sunlight is average.

The color image when shooting outdoors is very natural neutral, with minimal red tint.
Also, the auto white balance indoors confident that colors are also quite naturally, with minimal blue cast.

For HD video (up 1080P60i) can be discerned a much stronger noise, even the colors are there more blue emphasized and the dynamic low.
Be emphasized how quickly the camera reacts there to differences in brightness especially.
The result is well presentable, but lives more by the creative possibilities of the zoom as the picture quality itself.

Let's just say that the basic functions are available, for a Bridge but much is missing that would distinguish it from a compact toward DSLR.
No RAW is here Another Pain Point. Partly it is even inferior to compact, the menu is relatively slow and, depending on point here too-second delays.

Conclusion. If you know how the L840 is to take and can compensate for limitations, it is a camera that can be used in many cases.
The image result is better than with Travel Zooms, it is for heavier, larger and often more slowly.
For the price, the overall package is okay, near the bridge to SLR but it is very early on.

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