Nikon Coolpix P5100 Digital Camera

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An awesome camera to hold onto for years to come

By Sheldon  Nov 27, 2008

Pros: 12MP, light, strong case, thumb rest, full manual mode

Cons: fair focus speed and lack of manual focus

Lovely feature packed camera. I've had this camera for more than 3 months and I'm glad I purchased it.

It performs well, even the focus speed is good if you pre-focus and/or use focus lock. The ergonomics (thumb rest and all) is great and the magnesium body very strong...this camera will last you a long time. The ability to add an external flash and converter lens to this camera really extends its scope of use.

If you are looking to break away from the compact camera realm but don't want the cost of a dSLR, buy this camera! it has full manual mode and other features not normally found on compacts. From my research of the current camera offerings I would still buy this camera again, even with the p6000 out(which uses the same sensor and battery, and adds features I'm not interested in that exhaust the battery faster ).

I like it, alot!

By infinite.magic  Oct 12, 2008

Pros: small, sturdy, high megapixels, and easy to use

Cons: Lens is a little slow when focusing and sometimes it's hard to focus on specific subjects

I feel for a point and shoot this camera is excelling, it's a little sluggish when taking photos but everything else about it is great. Resolution usually is really sharp, it captures colors well and has a lot of different setting, even a manual so you can take the photos just they way you want, that main feature was a selling point for me. I also find this camera to be very sturdy, I've dropped it several times and it still works great, I work outside all day and I always keep it in my pocket. I've had it for several months now and still no problems.

If you would like to see some of the photos this camera can take go check out my flickr profile which has a lot pics on it that I took with that camera.

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By esteban  Aug 6, 2008

good camera

By jamezsyme999  Jul 9, 2008

Pros: great for detailed blowups, quality work

Cons: bad in low light for focusing manualy

It's a good camera, shows detailed shots well due to the 12 mp. The menu layout is clean and easily laid out. it has many excellent options and a decent video mode with audio to match. Now for cons, first off the camera is not good at manual focusing in low light, litteraly can eb wuit the pain to setup in low lgiht situations. do not know why they put the red light in as whenever it needs it it will not work 2/3rds of the time. only other things i can think of is a longer shutter speed would have been nice than 8 seconds and a higher f setting that 7.other than that it really is an excellent camera . thats just hardcore nitpicking

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By Cheslavo  Jun 1, 2008 | 2 out of 2 found this Nikon Coolpix P5100 review helpful

Pros: Insects researcher

Cons: Entomologist

Very nice, friendly menu, good pictures but some little distortion in corners, and to far macro the flash don't work well for this options to take pictures for insects for example there is a dark potion in the low part of picture. Very good for landscapes and people but for mcro in needed yo use an external flash

P5100

By Sean  May 29, 2008 | 0 out of 1 found this Nikon Coolpix P5100 review helpful

Pros: Very easy to use

Cons: Lack of accessories

Overall - Very nice camera.
but....
Does not have much choice when it comes to accessories to up-grade the camera.

By Vont  May 6, 2008

By aNIGRO - chinezu'  Mar 19, 2008

It's what you'd expect from Nikon

By aldawn  Mar 15, 2008 | 1 out of 2 found this Nikon Coolpix P5100 review helpful

Pros: overall quality, versatility & ease of use.

Cons: none worth complaining about yet

Excellent quality in a everyday point & shoot that offers many manual options for the creative. Shutter lag is less than optimal but not a big deal unless you shoot lots of action shots. Titanium body is solid, good feel in the hand. Optical viewer is especially nice in bright light, few new cameras have this. Excellent lens quality with 12.1 megapixel. It doesn't do it all, but what it does it does very well. It's what I'd expect from a Nikon.

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I think I'm in love

By John M  Nov 15, 2007 | 7 out of 8 found this Nikon Coolpix P5100 review helpful

Pros: DSLR-like manual control flexibilty, relative light-weight and footprint

Cons: A big sluggish; placement of on-off switch is not-smart; 'slow' lens

There's a lot to love about this camera. It's solidly made, with excellent optics, intuitive menus, easily accessible manual controls (full manual; shutter priority; aperture priority; fully automatic; and a 'modifiable' automatic mode Nikon calls Programmed Auto), and lots of flexibility/
programmability (but no RAW). This camera is far more than a point-and-shoot, and it's much smaller and lighter than a DSLR, I can fit it in my pocket.
So this camera is for me a good compromise: It's a bit bigger than a conventional point-and-shoot but gives the photographer *so* much more control, nearly as much as with a DSLR, and it's MUCH more portable than even the smallest DSLR. The SP5100 is, for me, a vastly scaled-down DSLR (but not in quality: excellent (if limited) optics; great image quality) that fits in my pocket.

It's a near-perfect camera for me. I think I'm in love.

To be fair: it's not perfect. I wish it weren't so slow (there's a noticeable lag as it processes an image), the shutter-lag is higher than in most quality point-and-shoots.

And I wish the on-off switch were located somewhere else (it's right in the center of the uppermost grip of the camera, meaning I'm constantly turning it on and off without meaning to.) It's beautifully designed and solid and well-thought-out, but it's not perfect.

Most of all: I do wish it were a bit smaller, a bit lighter. Even though it does fit in a pocket, it's substantially heavier and bulkier than a modern point-and-shoot. It's not quite comfortable enough to want to carry it all the time, and in the best of all worlds I'd have it with me all the time. It's *almost* that.

Still, it's near-perfect: I *am* in love.

(P.S. It has other capabilities (like movies, voice recording) that I don't expect to use. I bet the quality is top-notch)

And to be fair, some small complaints: It's slow ... but tolerable, I've really learned to work with it, it's not much of a problem. The on--off switch is And

Big bang for the buck

By Tengu  Nov 8, 2007 | 13 out of 14 found this Nikon Coolpix P5100 review helpful

Pros: Extendable lenses and flashes

Cons: Another new battery size

I bought this camera in preparation for a trip to Japan. I wanted a high megapixel camera for large blowups. At 12 MP, this camera delivers. It has all the shooting modes Nikon is known for, as well as full manual settings.

The onscreen menu is easy to navigate, and the mode wheel has all the common shooting priority modes.

I love the rubber grip and thumb pad as it leaves me with the sense it is stuck in my hand and I'm not going to drop it.

You can capture video with sound as most cameras do now, as well as record audio to go with your pictures to remind yourself just when, why and what you took a picture of.

There are wide angle and telephoto leses available for it, as well as a hotshoe for Nikon speedflashes, in case you need to put this camera on steroids.

The P5100 is a powerful camera in a tiny body, ready to handle just about anything you want to throw at it.