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I saw the new coolpix 7000 today..at last Nikon have come up with an answer to the G10/11/12 series.
I use a pro spec compact for som eof my work - where it is impractical to use a DSLR and I am not going to hump a big bag of stuff about, and some places where the compact is just far better. Like on my sea kayak out in rough water for instance.
I got a G10 and it is a great camera, I have had some lovely shots from it.
I also use it for som eof my fishing features, if I am doing a specfic feature shoot then I take the D3 kit. If I am travelling far from the car , wading, fishing off the kayak etc...I use the G10. It covers most of the angles. This kind of thing:
I had to buy a G10 because Nikon hadn't got anything that came even close to comparable. They had the quality of results, but the lens coverage was, shall we say, "limited". The G10 with its 28mm - 140mm lens covered a lot of the angles! It was reasonably wide, so got good scenics, had enough reach to do kayak to kayak shots.
The new Coolpix 7000 has just brought Nikon into the game. It has a 28mm - 200mm lens, D2X chip inside, shoots RAW, the same as SLR so you can combine the two in the same processing batch etc. It is built on a metal shell, so is nice and chunky...funnil;y enough, putting the two alongside each other, the G11/12 is the same size as the new Nikon..if anything the Nikon is a tad slimmer, but a tad heavier. Big screen....it is a Nikon version of the G10 with a better chip, higher ISO USEABILITY (G10 might have 1600 on the dial but it won't go above 200 without everything going to slurry).
Just at the time when I was thinking about upgrading the G10 too......similar sort of price, at around £480. No waterproof housing though......but I still have the G10 and its housing should I need it.
I am going to get one on loan to try but I can't see why it wouldn't produce brilliant results. No idea where everything lives on it, or how the menus and things work. I didn't play to that extent.
On the other hand. Will I actually get any more work by buying it? NOPE. Be good to have everything going through the same processing though.
I use a pro spec compact for som eof my work - where it is impractical to use a DSLR and I am not going to hump a big bag of stuff about, and some places where the compact is just far better. Like on my sea kayak out in rough water for instance.
I got a G10 and it is a great camera, I have had some lovely shots from it.I also use it for som eof my fishing features, if I am doing a specfic feature shoot then I take the D3 kit. If I am travelling far from the car , wading, fishing off the kayak etc...I use the G10. It covers most of the angles. This kind of thing:
I had to buy a G10 because Nikon hadn't got anything that came even close to comparable. They had the quality of results, but the lens coverage was, shall we say, "limited". The G10 with its 28mm - 140mm lens covered a lot of the angles! It was reasonably wide, so got good scenics, had enough reach to do kayak to kayak shots.
The new Coolpix 7000 has just brought Nikon into the game. It has a 28mm - 200mm lens, D2X chip inside, shoots RAW, the same as SLR so you can combine the two in the same processing batch etc. It is built on a metal shell, so is nice and chunky...funnil;y enough, putting the two alongside each other, the G11/12 is the same size as the new Nikon..if anything the Nikon is a tad slimmer, but a tad heavier. Big screen....it is a Nikon version of the G10 with a better chip, higher ISO USEABILITY (G10 might have 1600 on the dial but it won't go above 200 without everything going to slurry).
Just at the time when I was thinking about upgrading the G10 too......similar sort of price, at around £480. No waterproof housing though......but I still have the G10 and its housing should I need it.
I am going to get one on loan to try but I can't see why it wouldn't produce brilliant results. No idea where everything lives on it, or how the menus and things work. I didn't play to that extent.
On the other hand. Will I actually get any more work by buying it? NOPE. Be good to have everything going through the same processing though.
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