Who but the successful compromise in my eyes a pure automatic can come to terms, as in the S8200 and its images mainly sees in the Full HD resolution on a TV or monitor that is surprisingly well served.
After reading the test at digitalkamera.de I was noisy. I was looking for a new camera for my stepdaughter.
The S8200 sounded exactly what I was looking for. The camera should be easy to use, have a reliable and sufficient automatic zoom.
But the most important point: You should also have a good image quality. All this seemed to afford the camera.
So she was unceremoniously ordered and subjected to extensive testing.
I will now enumerate neither technical specifications nor any that 'advertising chatter' but merely describe my subjective impressions:
1. Appearance, handling
The camera is well made and feels very valuable despite plastic parts on. The buttons on the back are big enough and give no question mark on.
Disturbing I felt the smooth surface on the front. Especially in the summer (if like me you get fast sweaty hands) this is very slippery. Here is a partial roughened surface would have been useful ...
The lens will extend relatively quiet and fast. The camera is pretty fast Ready to start (about 1 second).
Practical: When you press the Menu button man stands right where key parameters such as ISO sensitivity, white balance and Autofokusart be adjusted quickly in a small menu
can.
2. Photographing
In addition to the wide selection of scene programs or specific programs such as HDR (Backlight) or multiple shots to reduce noise when shooting at night
is a 'normal' automatic is available (green camera icon on the dial).
This is roughly equivalent to a P-automatic manually controllable cameras only without Program Shift functionality.
In this, I have almost always photographed.
Since the small Nikon I have precious pretty exposed in principle the exposure compensation to sunlight - are 1/3 EV.
The result is exceptionally well-exposed, detailed photos with true neutral but still lifelike color representation.
Somehow it has Nikon managed to find a good compromise between contrast, sharpness and saturation.
Whatever photographic situation: The S8200 has mastered this well.
3. Comments
Amazed me as the lens. Whether wide angle (25mm KB) or maximum zoom at 350 mm KB. The images are in full-screen (!) View more appealing sharp.
Unless, of course, the motives are not too far away. The reason for this is surely the sharpening in the camera itself.
Looking at the pictures in the 1: 1 view to then sees significant sharpness artifacts.
So if a fine detail drawing in the 1: 1 representation expected such as in DSLR's or compacts like the Canon S100, Sony RX100 etc.
which will be a little disappointed. In my view, but that is negligible for this camera. Up to 50% view the images are very good, and 70% still good,
> 70% I would not recommend. These statements I always refer to the basic sensitivity ISO 100th
My tip: The best all images down count then you get high-quality images on a large TV or monitor to full HD resolution.
(In this case images at up to ISO 800 are incidentally still respectable)
Furthermore, I was impressed by the image stabilizer. Are the wide-angle still sharp images (assuming steady hands) possible at 1/3 second exposure time so
copes with the optical image stabilizer even at full focal length (provided enough light) amazing. Shooting from a moving car moving
Objects are not a problem. Here I had, for example, with the highly acclaimed Sony HX20V only get trouble at all times, a sharp image.
(Apparently, the image stabilizer the HX20 optimized primarily for Video ..)
But there are also a few points of criticism:
- Why is there no spot metering? Who like to photograph the moon will get with the S8200 problems
- The Aufofokusgeschwindigkeit at telephoto is a bit slow, almost unusable in bad light
- The wait for HDR or multiple exposures is quite high
- Why can not I adjust contrast and sharpness even?
Apart from these little things makes this camera a reliable impression.
My conclusion: access for this price as long as it still exists!
