... Without much prior knowledge, just tollere photos .....

So I want to make it easier and more colloquially expressed:

Base:

With two Canon Ixus I have undertaken to make some experiences and experiments beautiful photos of family, children, cars and holiday landscapes.

Somehow existed here but the desire that others go with 'so blown cameras' somehow tollere images.

However, it quickly became apparent that here, certainly by 1000 - are to invest, if you want something appealing to have broad application possibilities.

Too much. Was logical but if more light comes in there, then it is probably better.

This, however, always be considered in the average. Even with the compact there are top devices, which overlap with the next class of cameras.

Then it fascinated me that there is a great range of application is possible with such a bridge camera, without what to change or even to take a whole suitcase with accessories around.

It was clear that there is a 'bridge camera' to the camera.

Then I read scorecards and reviews about these Nikon, all sounded very good, the price situation was under almost EUR 400, - and the reviews in details and condition / Quality did not put me off.

Experiences:

The quality of the housing is of course not a full metal, but at the crucial points grip materials and otherwise visually quite nice to be sighted plastics.

Mine is black, because it still looks best and is probably also the least sensitive.

She makes quite automatically great pictures and even provides in a second step, a pretty good scene recognition (ie what do 'grade photographing). Since then makes them quite different things for a better result. People, animals, landscapes, ....

When you turn, it is quite quickly ready. Fast continuous shooting fold very great, so that you can later search for beautiful images of the series.

And she has a comfortable weight for single shots with straight arms and flips through the weight distribution does not forward or backward.

They even made me facilitates entry into manual settings and piqued my interest. For example, with aperture and shutter speed to experiment to see what this gives for different photos.

Things that you should know (perhaps minor):

Lens cap does not mount on the belt
No hot shoe to work with an external flash
Monitor well foldable (tilt up / down), but around the corner as it gets
Lens (zoom) is only by motor, as well as in a compact camera