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.