Nikon A900 Coolpix Digital Camera - Black

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Nikon have announced a new super-zoom camera, the Coolpix A1000. The Nikon A1000 boasts a 35x optical zoom (24–840mm), a new built-in electronic viewfinder, a tilting touchscreen monitor, 4K movies and RAW image recording. Micro-USB connector, Hi-Speed USB, Do not use any USB cable other than the UC-E21 for Micro-USB connector. Supports Direct Print (PictBridge) The Nikon Coolpix A900 is one of the only compact cameras on the market which can shoot 4K video. To do this, you need to go into the Main Menu and change Movie Options to 2160/30p. By default, the camera will record in 1080/30p.

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In addition to making the camera slight bigger and heavier, the addition of the EVF to the Nikon A1000 has also required a reworking of the tilting LCD screen on the rear, which in contrast to the A900 camera now flips below the camera for easier selfies, rather than above it as before. The screen can also be tilted to face downwards, which is useful if you’re holding the camera over your head to get a high angle shot. Equally, the new electronic viewfinder looks like a great addition on paper, but actually looking through it fro any length of time turns out to be a literally painful experience. It's simply too small and too low-resolution to use for longer periods of time. Again this is a feature that more serious photographers should love, but considering its inclusion increases both the size and cost of the A1000, we kind of wish that Nikon hadn't bothered. The A900’s screen can face all the way forward to help you take those ubiquitous selfies, and it can also tilt downwards, which can help with other shooting positions — such as holding the camera high above your head to get the shot. This is one of the brightest cameras in its category, even at the longest zoom settings - a huge plus in sports and nature photography The lens is comprised of 13 elements, including four ED elements, situated into 11 groups. The amount of zoom is certainly handy, but the lens itself isn't the brightest, with a variable maximum aperture of just f/3.4 at the wide end and f/6.9 at full telephoto. Thankfully, to help with lower light situations and at the longer zoom range, the A900 is equipped with Vibration Reduction -- a combination of optical VR and electronic stabilization -- though we don't have a spec for how much correction the VR system can compensate for.The Nikon Coolpix A1000’s 35x zoom lens achieves a maximum wide-angle focal length equivalent to 24mm, and is capable of a telephoto reach of 840mm (in 35mm camera terms). General purpose metering does a good job to produce balanced exposures, only requiring a little exposure compensation in scenarios where we’d usually expect it - such as very high contrast scenes. Colours are also nice and vibrant, having a good amount of punch without straying into unrealistic territory. Automatic white balance does reasonably well in most conditions, but it can err ever so slightly towards warmer tones under artificial light. You may also want to switch to the Cloudy setting when photographing under grey skies and you want to boost colours slightly. From the front, the two cameras look very similar. The A1000 has gained a new customisable Function button which by default selects the Continuous Shooting mode (also including Interval Timer Shooting, but which can be configured to one of seven other different settings. We set it to ISO speed, as there's no dedicated control on this camera for that key setting. SnapBridge with Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth - SnapBridge lets you transfer images to your smartphone or tablet, and will use Bluetooth, rather than Wi-Fi to transfer images using less power. You can also use SnapBridge to remotely control the camera, with a live view on your smartphone.

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Like many of Nikon’s newest models, the Nikon Coolpix A900 is equipped with Snapbridge. This means that once you’ve set it up, the camera can maintain a low-power bluetooth connection with your smartphone to automatically transfer images and video across to your phone without having any additional input. You can either have images send across at full size or at a reduced size to save time (transferring over bluetooth is slower than over Wi-Fi). It’s a very handy tool that works well to take the hassle out of transferring your images ready for uploading to social networking - this may be particularly appealing to those who want to use the camera while on holiday. Compatible devices are those capable of acquiring location information and those that support BLE (iPhone® 5S and later, iPad® 5th Generation and later, iPhone X or later).Nikon Coolpix A1000 is one of the smallest cameras in its category. This makes it very easy to handle and suitable for street photography and daily use The Nikon Coolpix A900’s lens will focus as close as 1cm from a subject, however depth of field becomes very shallow at this extremely close distance. The Nikon Coolpix A1000 has seven sensitivity settings ranging from ISO 100 to ISO 6400 at full resolution, available in both JPEG and Raw file formats.

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Select Firmware version in the Set up menu and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the firmware update. As is so often the case with compact cameras with a small sensor, the Nikon Coolpix A900 performs best when the light is good. In these conditions, the camera is capable of producing some nicely detailed images. Images look best when kept to A3 or below, as when you examine at 100% - even at low ISO sensitivities - it’s possible too see some instances of image smoothing.

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The previous A900 suffered in comparison to some of its rivals by not having a touchscreen - for 2019, Nikon have rectified that, so you can now use it to make changes to the camera's settings, change the AF point when shooting in any mode, and fire the shutter. You can also use the A1000's menu system by touching the screen too, something that is not always offered even by more recent cameras. New Nikon Winter instant rebate (Sofortrabatt) started in Germany: up to €600 off on select products At the wide end, the lens can focus as close as 1 ft. 8 inches (50cm), but as is usually the case, closest focusing distance increases as you zoom, with full tele limited to 6ft. 7 inches (2 meters). The Coolpix A900 offers a special Macro mode, however, which allows for an extremely close 0.4 in. (1 cm) focusing distance when zoomed out to the widest focal length.

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The Nikon Coolpix A900 offers 28 different filter effects, all of which are previewed live and recorded at full resolution. The Nikon Coolpix A900 has seven sensitivity settings ranging from ISO 80 to ISO 3200 at full resolution. The Nikon Coolpix A900 offers a 35x optical zoom lens, equivalent to 24-840mm in 35mm terms, a 20.3 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, and a 3inch tilting screen - the tilting screen tilts down as well as up, letting you use it for selfies, as well as overhead. The camera can focus on a subject just 1cm away from the front of the lens, for impressive macro focus. Warning - Nikon Coolpix A900 battery has only 300.0 shoots autonomy. This might be a limiting factor if you think you'll have to do long photo sessions without having the chance to recharge it.A device with Bluetooth 4.0 ® or later (i.e., a device that supports Bluetooth Smart Ready/Low Energy) is required.