Customer Rating: 
Summary: Nikon Coolpix P80
Comment: Outstanding little camera. The digital viewfinder eliminates shooting blindly in bright sun. Great features for the price. This camera is one notch below a DLSR and much lower in cost.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Camera for the Birds
Comment: This is a great camera for nature photography. Following my recent purchase, I spent two weeks photographing, sans tripod, migrating hummingbirds. The long zoom, high resolution,vibration control,and continuous shooting mode led to some great photographs. The close-up mode has also been very useful while photographing plants.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's a Nikon!!
Comment: This was my first digital camera. It's a great little camera with nice optics. If you want a megazoom buy it. I must say though I returned it for a d40x, I'm use to using 35mm cams back in the day and I love it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well Worth the Money
Comment: I don't normally post product reviews, but I wanted to throw in my two cents on the Nikon P80--especially considering the number of negative reviews by seemingly impatient people who used the camera for a day or two and felt compelled to return it. To read their reviews, you'd think this camera was manufactured by blind monkeys.
Rest assured, this camera takes fine pictures. In most people's hands, the Nikon P80 produces clear, vibrant images. Will it get you published in National Geographic? Not if you returned it the day after you bought it! Besides, even the best cameras can't make up for a lack of skill.
I purchased this camera because my previous point-and-shoot, which served me very well for 5 years, was too limited in its capabilities for what I wanted to do. On the other hand, a full DSLR camera was more than I needed. I saw the P80 in a local store and realized that it was the type of camera I was looking for. I read the reviews here, and had to filter through the poor reviews because the reviewers seemed too dismissive and too harsh in their judgments.
I will be using this camera mostly for outdoor use. I do a lot of hiking, canoeing, and snowshoeing, and along the way I take a lot of pictures. Some of these pictures wind up in print, both B&W and color. The camera I had been using was small enough to fit in my breast pocket, which made it easily accessible and allowed me to be spontaneous. But a smaller camera has obvious limitations, which I sometimes ran into while trying to prep a shot for publication at 300 dpi. Don't get me wrong, that little 5-mp point-and-shoot worked well for me, but I wanted to see what I could do with a larger, more sophisticated camera.
The P80 is too big to fit in my pocket, but it is light enough that I won't mind taking it on week-long wilderness hikes. I have only owned the camera for 2 weeks now, and so far I have only been using the automatic settings while I get a feel for its capabilities, but already I have taken several shots that I like very much. The resolution is perfect for what I'll be using it for. Chances are, if I used a tripod the images would be even sharper. A full-size image works out to be 9 x 12 inches at 300 dpi. You can, of course, set the camera to take smaller pictures.
One thing I've noticed from two weekend hikes is that the battery has a more limited life compared to what I'm used to with the smaller camera. Having been sure to fully recharge the battery the Friday night before my trip, I have been getting the "low battery" indicator by Sunday afternoon on both trips. Granted, I've had a bad case of "new toy syndrome" and over time I will probably learn to conserve battery power better. In the meantime, I plan to buy a back-up battery. It couldn't hurt. One thing that I've missed is an indicator that tracks battery power from start to finish, not just one that flashes when the power is low.
Another minor fault--which I can learn to live with--is that the on/off button can be a little too easily triggered. While trying to put the camera back in my backpack, I've accidentally touched the button and turned it on a couple times.
One thing I wasn't clear on when purchasing the camera from Amazon was what it came with. For the record, the following items come in the box with the camera:
* Battery recharger
* Rechargeable battery
* USB and AV cables
* A strap long enough to hang the camera from one's neck
* Software CD, especially helpful for managing the file upload process
The internal memory is good for ~18 images at full resolution. I bought a 4 gb SD card, with a capacity of ~850 images.
So, if you're looking for a camera somewhere between a POS and a DSLR, don't pass this one over thinking it only takes grainy, blurry images. It is a fine camera, especially for the price I bought it for. I haven't regretted it, and I am looking forward to getting to know it better.
I give it 4-1/2 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ALL I WAS LOOKING FOR
Comment: i was looking a excellent camera, with great zoom, good battery life, high mega pixels, then i start to thinking between this one and the canon ISS5, and i decided NIKON, THIS CAMERA HAS EVERYTHING, CAN RECORD VIDEOS AS LONG AS YOUR MEMORY CAN, CAN TAKE SEQUENCE (SPORT), HAS THE FACE DETECTION TECHNOLOGY, THE ZOOM IS AMAZING, HAS RECHARGED BATTERY AND THE BEST OF EVERYTHING IS THE PRICE I BOUGHT IT FOR 330$, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NOT TOO SMALL BUT THAT CAN MAKE A LOT OF STUFF EVERYTHING IN ONE, DEFINITIVE U HAVE TO BUY A NIKON IN SPECIAL NIKON P 80...
Summary: Nikon Coolpix P80
Comment: Outstanding little camera. The digital viewfinder eliminates shooting blindly in bright sun. Great features for the price. This camera is one notch below a DLSR and much lower in cost.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Camera for the Birds
Comment: This is a great camera for nature photography. Following my recent purchase, I spent two weeks photographing, sans tripod, migrating hummingbirds. The long zoom, high resolution,vibration control,and continuous shooting mode led to some great photographs. The close-up mode has also been very useful while photographing plants.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's a Nikon!!
Comment: This was my first digital camera. It's a great little camera with nice optics. If you want a megazoom buy it. I must say though I returned it for a d40x, I'm use to using 35mm cams back in the day and I love it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well Worth the Money
Comment: I don't normally post product reviews, but I wanted to throw in my two cents on the Nikon P80--especially considering the number of negative reviews by seemingly impatient people who used the camera for a day or two and felt compelled to return it. To read their reviews, you'd think this camera was manufactured by blind monkeys.
Rest assured, this camera takes fine pictures. In most people's hands, the Nikon P80 produces clear, vibrant images. Will it get you published in National Geographic? Not if you returned it the day after you bought it! Besides, even the best cameras can't make up for a lack of skill.
I purchased this camera because my previous point-and-shoot, which served me very well for 5 years, was too limited in its capabilities for what I wanted to do. On the other hand, a full DSLR camera was more than I needed. I saw the P80 in a local store and realized that it was the type of camera I was looking for. I read the reviews here, and had to filter through the poor reviews because the reviewers seemed too dismissive and too harsh in their judgments.
I will be using this camera mostly for outdoor use. I do a lot of hiking, canoeing, and snowshoeing, and along the way I take a lot of pictures. Some of these pictures wind up in print, both B&W and color. The camera I had been using was small enough to fit in my breast pocket, which made it easily accessible and allowed me to be spontaneous. But a smaller camera has obvious limitations, which I sometimes ran into while trying to prep a shot for publication at 300 dpi. Don't get me wrong, that little 5-mp point-and-shoot worked well for me, but I wanted to see what I could do with a larger, more sophisticated camera.
The P80 is too big to fit in my pocket, but it is light enough that I won't mind taking it on week-long wilderness hikes. I have only owned the camera for 2 weeks now, and so far I have only been using the automatic settings while I get a feel for its capabilities, but already I have taken several shots that I like very much. The resolution is perfect for what I'll be using it for. Chances are, if I used a tripod the images would be even sharper. A full-size image works out to be 9 x 12 inches at 300 dpi. You can, of course, set the camera to take smaller pictures.
One thing I've noticed from two weekend hikes is that the battery has a more limited life compared to what I'm used to with the smaller camera. Having been sure to fully recharge the battery the Friday night before my trip, I have been getting the "low battery" indicator by Sunday afternoon on both trips. Granted, I've had a bad case of "new toy syndrome" and over time I will probably learn to conserve battery power better. In the meantime, I plan to buy a back-up battery. It couldn't hurt. One thing that I've missed is an indicator that tracks battery power from start to finish, not just one that flashes when the power is low.
Another minor fault--which I can learn to live with--is that the on/off button can be a little too easily triggered. While trying to put the camera back in my backpack, I've accidentally touched the button and turned it on a couple times.
One thing I wasn't clear on when purchasing the camera from Amazon was what it came with. For the record, the following items come in the box with the camera:
* Battery recharger
* Rechargeable battery
* USB and AV cables
* A strap long enough to hang the camera from one's neck
* Software CD, especially helpful for managing the file upload process
The internal memory is good for ~18 images at full resolution. I bought a 4 gb SD card, with a capacity of ~850 images.
So, if you're looking for a camera somewhere between a POS and a DSLR, don't pass this one over thinking it only takes grainy, blurry images. It is a fine camera, especially for the price I bought it for. I haven't regretted it, and I am looking forward to getting to know it better.
I give it 4-1/2 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ALL I WAS LOOKING FOR
Comment: i was looking a excellent camera, with great zoom, good battery life, high mega pixels, then i start to thinking between this one and the canon ISS5, and i decided NIKON, THIS CAMERA HAS EVERYTHING, CAN RECORD VIDEOS AS LONG AS YOUR MEMORY CAN, CAN TAKE SEQUENCE (SPORT), HAS THE FACE DETECTION TECHNOLOGY, THE ZOOM IS AMAZING, HAS RECHARGED BATTERY AND THE BEST OF EVERYTHING IS THE PRICE I BOUGHT IT FOR 330$, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NOT TOO SMALL BUT THAT CAN MAKE A LOT OF STUFF EVERYTHING IN ONE, DEFINITIVE U HAVE TO BUY A NIKON IN SPECIAL NIKON P 80...
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