Nikon Coolpix P6000 reviewed, not all that cool
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted October 29th 2008 5:52PM
posted October 29th 2008 5:52PM
The kids over at Photography Blog have finally got their hands on the Nikon Coolpix P6000 that became official back in August and have pronounced it "a mixed bag." It looks good on paper at least, with a 13.5-megapixel sensor, 28mm wide angle lens and built-in Ethernet (a first for a consumer grade camera). Unfortunately, the big ticket items like on-board GPS (for geo-tagging all those coolpix you'll be taking) and NRW file format support (the new "RAW" image format developed by Microsoft and Nikon) are said to be poorly implemented and all but unusable. Even the much-ballyhooed LAN connectivity is limited to something called MyPictureTown. Hit the read link to catch the reviewer holding forth on a number of other salient points, including the camera's DSLR-like hand-grip, optical viewfinder and external flash hotshoe.
Darn it, I was just on my out to buy 3 of them for christmas gifts...
now I have all this cash... what am I going to do with $15...
Send to my PayPal address.
And what address would this be then?
those kids sure get a lot of expensive shit over there to play with...they must also be playing with daddy's credit cards.
or free money dumped into a PayPal address...
Barney Miller????
Great, now the theme song is going to be stuck in my head!
I really hate things that start with a 'My'-somethingorother.
Why do all the top end cameras look like pure 1980's dog shit
Because they're not sacrificing practicality and functionality just to look nice.
they can make that look a little better, its like they arent even trying. But i guess its not a fashion show. Even though you might find these at such an event...
ok now i am just rambling
Man, Nikon is the perfect example of a company that has two arms, one of which is doing the right thing, while the other keeps banging its head so hard against the wall you wonder how it keeps from falling down. On one side you've got their mid-high end DSLRs (D90-D3) that are setting the world on fire. But really, what was the last point-and-shoot that Nikon made that had anything going for it other than the brand name? The Coolpix 700 from 1999, maybe? I just don't understand why Nikon keeps putting out such "meh" point-and-shoots.
The arm bangs its head against the wall?
Did you actually read the review? Though they didn't like it quite as well as the Canon G10, nor the Lumix LX3, it was still considered a decent camera. I just received a P6000 and the raw (NRW) files work just fine with Adobe Camera Raw 4.6 in Photoshop Elements. The only controversy about the raw implementation was that Nikon Capture NX couldn't open them. The GPS is dandy, once it knows where it's located the first time it subsequently locks on pretty quickly. With Nikon's View NX (free) when you click the the program's geotag icon for a selected photo up pops Google Earth showing you where you took the picture. The camera is designed to work with Nikon's large line of sophisticated external flash units. And it does work well with my Nikon SB800 flash - one of the chief reasons I bought the camera. One thing it does beat the G10 on is weight. Sure you can put the Canon in your pocket, but it's not a very comfortable there (I have the Canon G9 and you really don't want it in your pocket all that long). The P6000 is truly pocketable. Sure, I wish the lens was a little faster at the long end, and the in camera battery charger is kind of dumb. But overall it's a lot better camera than your blurb indicates.
Kudos to Nikon for including an optical viewfinder. But I can't believe the company
is charging $500 for this camera and failed to include a diopter adjustment. Makes
me love my Kodak P880 all the more.
Ahh, what a pity. I ruled this one out as soon as I heard about the Win-only RAW. What are they, nuts? I prefer not to be discriminated for being a Mac user. And RAW writing also locking up the camera for seconds at a time? The GPS next top useless but sucking the battery dry? That is just sad. On the other hand, the P6000 was still interesting due to the built-in viewfinder and the supposedly high ISO range. Too bad the latter pretty much turned out to be bull, just as usual. Had they been able to pull of a compact with fully usable ISO 800 (by some hardcore necromantic ritual 666 meters below Tokyo, whatever) the NRW stunt could have been overlooked even though it would still have hurt. The way it is, the only ones to be hurt by this thing will be Nikon, because they can take it and put it back where they pulled it from.