Nikon still has that aura of professional camera perfection. My brother has a Niccormat that still produces excellent pictures, and is so simple to use even a novice (me) could use it in semi automatic mode and get great results.
The Coolpix 7600 looks the part, and feels reasuringly solidly built. It comes with a thick wodge of user manuals and registration documents.
Sadly, despite really wanting to like this camera (it was bought as a gift), it is has proved very difficult to get the best from, mainly because shortcomings with the built in software and flash make it diificult (but not impossible) to get decent results.
In almost every situation I encountered, if you let the camera setup the shot, there will be a delay of at least 3-4 seconds before the shot is taken. This can be worse in low light, and especially in "Party" mode.
Standard outdoor Outdoors in bright daylight, at high resolution with static/slow moving subjects produced the best results. This allowed the best features of the camera to shine through. Really very impressive focus, detail and colour balance.
The camera offers a huge variety of resolution settings, and a sub-menu of simple "modes", which are supposed to be easy to use pre setup profiles for using the camera in typical situations . It is very difficult in practice for novice "snappers" to select the most appropriate one.
The ones that have used I guess are typical:
Close Up This worked very well. The only problem with this was getting the camera to stay still enough, but there is a hole for a stand.
Party Supposedly for indoor use at parties. Of course Nikon's parties may be floodlit, but the ones I've been to are all pretty low lit affairs. This was a totally useless mode, and it was almost impossible to get a decent picture, unless your subjects can remain motionless for about 60 seconds. The totally crummy inbuilt flash doesn't help here, and there isn't a way to add an external flash unit to compensate.
Sport Pretty good in most (outdoor) conditions. Seemed to be optimised for fast moving subjects.
Other I didn't really use any of the other special modes
Movie Mode This works pretty well, and though no where near as good as a dedicated digital, it has proved the best feature of the camera. With a 256 MB SD card, you have about 20 mins of recording time.
Summary Though seemingly designed as an easy to use compact "point-and-shoot" this is not a camera for novice users. Used carefully and with forethought, it can produce excellent results. But if you want an easy to use digital compact for those spontaneous special moments - look elsewhere.
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Advantages: Excellent optical zoom with such a small sized camera. Disadvantages: Sometimes on close ups the zoom gets in the way creating unwanted shadows.
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Advantages: Excellent optical zoom with such a small sized camera. Disadvantages: Sometimes on close ups the zoom gets in the way creating unwanted shadows.
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