Nikon Coolpix P520 Camera - Black (18.1MP, 42xZoom, 24mm Wide Lens) 3.2 inch LCD

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This Agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Japan without regard to its conflicts of laws principles. In the event a dispute arises under or in connection with this Agreement, you hereby consent to personal jurisdiction of Japan and waive any objection that such forum is inconvenient. You further consent to service of process in any action arising from this Agreement by regular mail or other commercially reasonable means of receipted delivery. If any provision of the Agreement shall be determined invalid for any reason, the remaining provisions shall not be invalidated and shall remain in full force and effect. This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and understanding between you and Nikon, and supersedes and replaces any other agreements relating to the subject matter of this Agreement. The failure of any party to insist upon strict performance of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement, or the exercise of any option, right or remedy contained herein, shall not be construed as a waiver of any future application of such term, provision, option, right or remedy, and such term, provision, option, right or remedy shall continue and remain in full force and effect. The headings of the sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not constitute a part hereof or affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the provisions of section 3 and section 4 together with any provisions that by their express terms apply to periods after termination of this Agreement, shall survive termination of this Agreement for any reason. The COOLPIX P520 doesn’t offer particularly fast continuous shooting or extended bursts, if the action lasts any longer than a second you won’t be able to capture at full resolution. But it does offer a wide range of reduced resolution burst modes as well as some novel and versatile ones. If you want fast continuous shooting at full resolution, neither the PowerShot SX50 HS nor the Lumix FZ70 / FZ72 does better, for that a better option would be something like the Canon PowerShot S120 or G16, or of course a mid-range DSLR. But the COOLPIX P520 does at least offer some other options. The on/off switch is located on the top panel and has a green LED surround to tell you when the power is on. The only other button on the top is a programmable fn button which is assigned to drive modes by default. By contrast the drive mode button on the Canon SX520 HS can’t be re-assigned even though, given the SX520’s lamentable 1.7fps continuous shooting performance, there’s every reason it should be. However, searching the web there seems to be a possibilty of using another cable where I can connect the camera to the laptop, feeding in power to the battery, and being able to start the camera whilst connected to the laptop. The autofocusing system is also a bit slow, particularly when zoomed in at 1000mm. In this configuration, the camera struggles to acquire focus and often fails to do so. It’s best to stay in medium focal lengths or wider, to maintain adequate focusing speeds. Battery Life

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Outputs are under a cover on the body's right side; you get a Mini-HDMI and a Micro-USB/AV port, the latter of which can be used with Nikon's WU-1a Wi-Fi adapter so it can communicate with Android and iOS devices for viewing and transferring photos and videos. There's no accessory shoe for an add-on flash, limiting you to the onboard pop-up one. It doesn't automatically rise when needed, instead remaining off until you push a button on the left side of the camera. It's adequately powerful and there are flash exposure compensation settings available. You can apply nine different special effects as you shoot with the Nikon Coolpix P520, with a live preview on the LCD screen showing exactly what the final image will look like. While it offers an electronic viewfinder, the viewfinder comes with a few problems. Firstly, it doesn’t have a built-in proximity sensor to disengage the rear screen. Instead, if you want to compose using the viewfinder, you must first fully close the rear LCD into its protected position to do so. In practice, this becomes quite tedious and also slows workflow, strange. Secondly, the viewfinder is both small and offers a meager resolution of only 201K dots. Both of these combine to make it quite challenging to gauge proper focus and hard to compose images over long periods. Remaining battery power on the COOLPIX P520 is indicated by a three-segment graphic. I found the 200 shot capacity of the COOLPIX P520 quite a limitation, with the low battery indicator appearing all too soon when out shooting for the day. Even for casual snappers, at an event like a wedding, or party the COOLPIX P520 is likely to give up before you’re ready to, and that’s assuming you have a full charge to begin with. I’d strongly recommend you buy at least one additional battery along with the camera. Look at it this way, with a spare battery you still get only the same shooting capacity as the Lumix FZ70 / FZ72 with a single one.With zoom ranges becoming ever longer, stabilization takes on a more and more important role. The COOLPIX P530 employs optical stabilization, shifting the lens elements to compensate for camera movement; Nikon calls it Vibration reduction. There are three settings available from the P530’s menu, Off, Normal and Active. Active mode irons out excessive wobbling, examples of the kinds of conditions it might be useful in, according to the manual, are ‘when shooting from a car or under poor foothold conditions’. Still pictures: JPEG; 3D images: MPO; Sound files (voice memo): WAV; Movies: MOV (Video: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Audio: AAC stereo) Here are two 100% crops - the right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images from the Nikon Coolpix P520 are slightly soft at the default sharpening setting and benefit from some further sharpening in a program like Adobe Photoshop. You can alternatively change the in-camera sharpening level to suit your tastes. The camera also provides a customizable function button, called FN, allowing users to program the button for a variety of functions it offers. And it also has a single user-defined shooting preset on the mode dial, called U. This mode position allows users to recall a preset shooting setup, saving time. Physical Layout & Ergonomics Measuring 125.2 x 84.1 x 101.6mm, the Nikon Coolpix P520 is slightly larger than the previous P510 model, but its design is only minimally different. Like most high-end superzooms, the Nikon P520 sports the typical bridge camera look, with a chunky hand-grip, large lens barrel, pop-up flash and an eye-level electronic viewfinder. The deep grip is moulded to fit comfortably into your right hand, and is rubberised in a textured material for added comfort.

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The question is, how much more effective is Active mode than the Normal setting? To find out, I zoomed the COOLPIX P520 to its maximum 1200mm telephoto focal length and set it to Shutter priority mode. I then took a sequence of shots with the stabilisation turned off at progressively slower shutter speeds. I repeated the sequence with the stabilisation in Normal mode, then a third time with stabilisation set to Active mode. Electronic viewfinder, 0.5 cm (0.2-in.) approx. 201k-dot equivalent LCD with the diopter adjustment function (-4 to +4 m-1) The Nikon Coolpix P520 allows you to get as close as 1cm to your subject, in this case a Compact Flash card.

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It doesn’t take much digging to reveal how Nikon has been able, or perhaps felt obliged, to charge less for this camera: the slim battery lasts for just 200 shots, less than half that of most of its competitors; there’s no accessory shoe for external flashguns; it can’t capture in RAW format; and the 201,000-dot EVF is small and coarse compared to the 920,000-dot and higher resolutions offered elsewhere. There’s not even an orientation sensor for rotating portrait-shaped photos automatically. The Nikon Coolpix P520's Easy Panorama mode allows you to take vertical or horizontal panorama photos simply by moving the camera in the direction of the on-screen guides. Multiple shots are then combined into a single panorama photo. The angle of view can be selected from 180° (normal) and 360° (wide). Easy Panorama - 180° Yes, I may well have a faulty camera, but as it has cost nothing I am not losing any sleep over it. And here are a couple of portrait shots. As you can see, neither the Fill Flash or the Auto with Red-eye reduction options caused any amount of red-eye. Audio isn’t recorded with the HS video modes but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you can use the effects filters. The only limitation on this is that the Soft and Nostalgic sepia effects are only available with the HS720/2x mode. I should also mention that you can’t use the use zoom or Full-time AF with the HS modes. Regardless of that, this is an impressive range of high speed recording modes and one of the COOLPIX P530’s big advantages over the H400 and SX520 HS neither of which offers anything like it.