Customer Rating: 
Summary: Rockin Cam
Comment: I have had this camera for a few weeks and am astounded with the quality of the images it takes. I zoomed in on a gecko on the screen on my back porch and snapped away. The gecko had a fly in its mouth and the camera caught the yellow and black markings on the bug and the veins in the wings. highly recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great advanced P&S digital
Comment: I use 35mm and 6x6 film cameras and wanted a good, small, non-SLR digital camera to throw in a camera bag and use on shoots to preview shots and do lighting tests. True this doesn't have the range of my pro lenses but has the ability to attach speedlights (it even works with NON-iTTL flashes like the SB-28 if you set it up properly) and allows me to attach my radio transmitter to the hotshoe and remotely fire my strobes for test shots.
And it's a good performer in it's own right. The advanced features are great, and it's intuitive and easy to use. The magnesium & rubber construction has a quality feel that makes it feel a rugged as my pro Nikon gear, and it's rangefinder-like design looks surprisingly similar to the great Mamiya 6 (though much smaller of course).
Great photos, excellent adjustment and customization, versatile, compact, rugged, and well designed. Can be simple & fully automated for the pointer-and-shooter, and can get out of the way and let an experienced photographer take full control when needed. As for speed, anyone who has worked with film in low light will not be bothered by the speed of this camera or the resulting image quality in the same situations.
This is a great little digital camera, maybe one of the best non-slr choices out there.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nikon Coolpix P5100
Comment: This camera is amazing. Fantastic point and shoot with enough features and options for an experienced photographer to enjoy too. I am an avid photographer and extremely impressed with the camera. The video quality is better than our camcorder and so much easier to handle too! We can't say enough good things about this camera.
Customer Rating:
Summary: the G9 killer
Comment: I go through cameras like hogs go through mud. Not because I drop them in the mud, but because I like to buy a lot of technology. This little guy has stuck with me and here's why:
- I tried the G9 first. I always noticed the extra girth when trying to discreetly carry it in my jeans pocket. The p5100, even with a soft case, can be forgotten about while I'm carrying it in said pocket.
- Have you seen the images that can be made when using the wide angle and sb400 bounce flash? HOLY **** I'm no pro, but the results are creative and dramatic, to a much higher degree than any other P&S I've ever had. Without the attachments, the pictures are still just as good as any other P&S I've ever tried as well, and I used to even have the "legendary" Fuji F30. Even if the latter has better dim light results, the former makes up for it hundreds of times over with the bounce flash option.
- I won't beat the horse with the "performance issues." I'll just say I don't notice them, even though I originally owned the G9 for a month. That said, when I had both cameras at the same time, the interface of the G9 was a lot more user-friendly and "snappy."
- I took hundreds of pictures with both of them in the same conditions with various camera options. Subjectively, the ones taken by the p5100 consistently looked better and more alive than the G9 (without attachments). However, I could get much better "quasi-bokeh" with the G9, esp with the lens zoomed in and macro mode on.
- Finally, p5100 + attachments = much better pictures than G9 alone, and in that configuration it weighs about the same as the G9 without attachments.
- Result? FIVE STARS. Not because it's going to be as good as my friend's 40D, but when considering PRICE SIZE and RESULTS, it is.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not as good as I expected
Comment: For a Nikon this camera should be better, the lcd display is to dim outdoors and the camera, for being the top of the line point and shoot camera, is not worth the money.
Summary: Rockin Cam
Comment: I have had this camera for a few weeks and am astounded with the quality of the images it takes. I zoomed in on a gecko on the screen on my back porch and snapped away. The gecko had a fly in its mouth and the camera caught the yellow and black markings on the bug and the veins in the wings. highly recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great advanced P&S digital
Comment: I use 35mm and 6x6 film cameras and wanted a good, small, non-SLR digital camera to throw in a camera bag and use on shoots to preview shots and do lighting tests. True this doesn't have the range of my pro lenses but has the ability to attach speedlights (it even works with NON-iTTL flashes like the SB-28 if you set it up properly) and allows me to attach my radio transmitter to the hotshoe and remotely fire my strobes for test shots.
And it's a good performer in it's own right. The advanced features are great, and it's intuitive and easy to use. The magnesium & rubber construction has a quality feel that makes it feel a rugged as my pro Nikon gear, and it's rangefinder-like design looks surprisingly similar to the great Mamiya 6 (though much smaller of course).
Great photos, excellent adjustment and customization, versatile, compact, rugged, and well designed. Can be simple & fully automated for the pointer-and-shooter, and can get out of the way and let an experienced photographer take full control when needed. As for speed, anyone who has worked with film in low light will not be bothered by the speed of this camera or the resulting image quality in the same situations.
This is a great little digital camera, maybe one of the best non-slr choices out there.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nikon Coolpix P5100
Comment: This camera is amazing. Fantastic point and shoot with enough features and options for an experienced photographer to enjoy too. I am an avid photographer and extremely impressed with the camera. The video quality is better than our camcorder and so much easier to handle too! We can't say enough good things about this camera.
Customer Rating:
Summary: the G9 killer
Comment: I go through cameras like hogs go through mud. Not because I drop them in the mud, but because I like to buy a lot of technology. This little guy has stuck with me and here's why:
- I tried the G9 first. I always noticed the extra girth when trying to discreetly carry it in my jeans pocket. The p5100, even with a soft case, can be forgotten about while I'm carrying it in said pocket.
- Have you seen the images that can be made when using the wide angle and sb400 bounce flash? HOLY **** I'm no pro, but the results are creative and dramatic, to a much higher degree than any other P&S I've ever had. Without the attachments, the pictures are still just as good as any other P&S I've ever tried as well, and I used to even have the "legendary" Fuji F30. Even if the latter has better dim light results, the former makes up for it hundreds of times over with the bounce flash option.
- I won't beat the horse with the "performance issues." I'll just say I don't notice them, even though I originally owned the G9 for a month. That said, when I had both cameras at the same time, the interface of the G9 was a lot more user-friendly and "snappy."
- I took hundreds of pictures with both of them in the same conditions with various camera options. Subjectively, the ones taken by the p5100 consistently looked better and more alive than the G9 (without attachments). However, I could get much better "quasi-bokeh" with the G9, esp with the lens zoomed in and macro mode on.
- Finally, p5100 + attachments = much better pictures than G9 alone, and in that configuration it weighs about the same as the G9 without attachments.
- Result? FIVE STARS. Not because it's going to be as good as my friend's 40D, but when considering PRICE SIZE and RESULTS, it is.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not as good as I expected
Comment: For a Nikon this camera should be better, the lcd display is to dim outdoors and the camera, for being the top of the line point and shoot camera, is not worth the money.
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