Nikon COOLPIX L830 prosumer camera with dynamic fine zoom

Are you looking for a digital camera for the holiday season? You can count on a prosumer camera from Nikon, the COOLPIX L830. The Nikon L830 has impressive zoom performance. Despite its compact size, the camera can scan very distant subjects fill the frame. This applies to both still images and Full HD movie recording. Powerful image stabilizer helps always to capture sharp images even without a tripod. The Coolpix L830 camera prosumer or bridge-camera perfect as your companion for holidays around the world. In the holiday season, the Nikon Coolpix L830 can also be used as a gift for your loved ones.

You will enjoy optical 34x high-power zoom with selectable Dynamic Fine Zoom (extends the zoom to 68-fold) and optical image stabilizer. From the large team photo to the close-up near the penalty spot - the NIKKOR lens with optical 34x zoom is prepared for any situation. In addition allows the zoom power of the Nikon COOLPIX L830 with the Dynamic Fine zoom function to double to 68 times - and at a significantly higher quality than it has been known by many digital zoom. For sharp pictures at high zoom levels, fast-moving subjects or low light performance Image Stabilizer provides. The five-axis Hybrid Image Stabilizer helps with its movably mounted optics and digital software support effective camera shake, giving you succeed even in low light or high focal lengths brilliant images.

Nikon Coolpix L830. Image: l830.org

The L830 has a low noise and high sensitivity 16 megapixel CMOS sensor and Full HD movie recording with superior image quality. Even in low light you obtain detailed, low-noise images. Particularly clever is the Night Portrait mode: By shooting a fast image series, the individual images are then combined to form a perfectly exposed image. Because of their high speed, the camera also allows you fast continuous shooting or high-speed videos.

Tiltable 7.5-cm-RGBW LCD monitor (3.0 inch)

With the monitor the Nikon COOLPIX L830 discover photography and film entirely new creative perspectives. Take advantage of the versatility of the tilting monitor to provide, for example, on the ground objects located in the foreground of your shots or taking pictures over the heads of other time. Especially at very sunny days is the RGBW structure with additional white pixels very helpful because they increase the image brightness.

Full HD movie recording (1080p) with stereo sound

The COOLPIX L830 makes it very easy to shoot movies at the highest quality to make: A dedicated button for movie recording simplifies the recording unique moments in full HD quality (1080 / 60i) and with stereo sound. When zooming with the ergonomically arranged laterally zoom control of permanent AF for continuously ensures sharp images. And even during recording, you can take a still picture.

Easy Panorama function

If you use the Easy Panorama feature, you can photograph the scenery such as mountains or the beach, or can use to make photos that span subjects in a wider composition. All you have to do is very simple and easy;  you can hold all human chains or both expansive landscapes in either 180 or 360 degree panorama shots. It's easy: With Easy-panorama feature is enabled, you swing the Nikon COOLPIX L830 easy along your subject. The camera automatically one after the other several images and merges them together then a perfect panorama. To have your panoramic image already in the bag, while others are still setting up their tripod.

 

Nikon Coolpix L830. Image: fotoplus.hu

The features on the Nikon L830 is indeed very tempting, but you need to compare it with some class camera such as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72, which offers a much larger zoom and manual exposure options, but has no folding screen and also a tad more expensive. A folding screen can e.g. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 offer, but here you have more on the table than for the Nikon bridge camera.

The Coolpix L830 is a very solid bridge camera with good performance at low cost. Advantages over its predecessor are the larger zoom and the folding screen, what remains is the class 22.5 mm wide-angle. Those who wish to quickly and easily get at your photos while looking for a camera with large zoom, the Nikon bridge camera itself should take a closer look. For advanced learning or willing the Nikon L830 is, however, nothing, because the bridge has neither raw nor an accessory shoe, nor manual exposure options.

The L830 has a good chance to become just as popular as its predecessor the Coolpix L820 which prevailed in the tests as a real tip under the budget start-bridge cameras. Particularly encouraging: despite the better equipment the retail price is about  € 249 or US$ 309.95. The Coolpix L830 is a super zoom camera which is great for traveling and holidayaround the world.

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Panasonic FZ1000 prosumer camera, a bridge to DSLR

In the midst of fierce competition among mirrorless camera with DSLR cameras, Panasonic apparently remained consistent to develop the kind of prosumer digital camera. That's why Panasonic launched the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000. It could be said that this camera is a blend of super-zoom bridge camera with quality in all aspects, especially the picture quality and a variety of features to produce photographs and excellent video quality, and FZ1000 answer these challenges, other brands can also be a rival.

It turns out that Panasonic has succeeded in getting the recipe and the solution: bright and high-quality optics, large 1-inch sensor. Not to mention the ability to shoot 4K video and the focus DFD which debuted on mirrorless Panasonic GH4. The Lumix FZ1000 exhibits very good results in absolute terms, which may well be considered to be excellent if we take into account that originate in a compact fixed lens.

Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 is a new family of superzoom cameras with fixed lens features a generously sized sensor (1 inch, as the direct rival Sony RX10). The FZ1000 is an ideal compromise between critical factors and in some ways opposites such as focal length, sensor size and optics. It uses a generous 1-inch sensor.

 

Panasonic Lumix FZ1000. Image: jurnalul.ro

The FZ1000 is armed with the latest generation of advanced features, such as support for 4K video, and the system focus DFD, that exceeds the most obvious focus for phase detection. In fact, in many respects closely resembles the mirrorless GH4 the same Panasonic, which, for a compact, is not just a virtue. 

The Lumix FZ1000 is also equipped with a generous resolution of 20.1 megapixel, and and of course and of course, Panasonic remain loyal to give you a high-quality lens from Germany, a Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 1: 2.8-4 / 9.1-146mm ASPH, 16x zoom equivalent to 25-400mm, with a maximum aperture of f / 2.8-4. Anyway, Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 is a superzoom prosumer camera. 

If you are a photographer who wants to transform into a professional filmmaker or videographer, the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 is the right tool for you. Why? The two most striking are the ability to shoot video Ultra HD 4K 25p (or Full HD video up to 100 fps) and the technology focus DFD (Depth From Defocus) . Two significant changes that have debuted on the little mirrorless GH4, and is now calling on a compact, at a price even more attractive: the list is about a little less than 900 Euro, but is already online at about 750 Euro.

The FZ1000 is based on a new CMOS sensor 20.1 Mpixels and 1 inch diagonal , which characterizes enormously this product. It is over 4 times larger than the classical 1 / 2.3 "typical compact / bridge, so it is expected that the signal / noise ratio much more favorable, as compared to the Micro Four Thirds format mirrorless Panasonic, the area is useful almost halved (about 1.8 times lower). The new quad-core Venus Engine, which provides the power needed for sophisticated processing noise, allows the FZ1000 to offer a maximum sensitivity of 12,800 native ISO , which can reach ISO 25,600 extension.

 

Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 vs Sony RX10. Image: gizmag.com

The most credible rival the Lumix FZ1000 today is the Sony RX10, which is also based on 1-inch CMOS sensor and 20 megapixels of resolution (20.2, to be exact). The Sony model provides an aperture f / 2.8 constant, but with a zoom range which is only (about) half: 24-200mm equivalent. 

In addition, the most recent Panasonic is more powerful, has a higher resolution viewfinder display and a rear articulated more flexible, 4K video, and costs less. The Sony model is offered today at $ 999, and about 100 Euro gap on the price list are retained on the street price. What do you think?

  

If you are looking for a new prosumer camera with 4K video recording capability, the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 is the right choice. The Lumix FZ1000 is a new bridge, from compact-system camera into a DSLR camera. By having this camera, you do not need to carry a heavy DSLR camera, and has a large size. It is obvious that prosumer camera is the right choice for adventure and holiday around the world, and convenient to use for social and business events.

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Finding the best prosumer camera

Panasonic Lumix FZ200. Image: dphoto.it

It is true that not everyone needs a DSLR camera for everyday photography or to take a vacation. As we understand it, a DSLR camera has a big body and certainly heavy to carry comfortably. Moreover DSLR cameras are more expensive than the prosumer or compact camera. However, you can choose a DSLR camera with a light body and smaller than similar cameras, such as Canon EOS Rebel SL1 (Kiss X7) or EOS 100D.

Prosumer cameras often referred to as a bridge (bridge camera) that connects between compact cameras with DSLR cameras. If you want to have a prosumer camera, then you need to consider several factors before you make a decision, are as follows:

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