The Nikon P7000 is an excellent advanced compact in its own right with exceptional image quality, but it is only a hair short of the Canon-G12 performance. The Coolpix P7000 joined his D3100 and D7000 in the late third quarter of calendar year 2010 to reach big brothers market. Nikon describes this latest high performance Coolpix as “…. the perfect complement to a photographer’s advanced D-SLR, and it raises the entry-level consumer to explore to comply with the limits of their photographic skills and their creative vision.”

The Coolpix P7000 packs the hardware to a DSLR camera, in particular a RAW shooting capability and zoom lens to the focal range of 28-200 mm in the 35 mm equivalents, supplementing with a fast f/2.8 maximum aperture on the wide end of the lens.

It is also a $500-MSRP, the entry-level DSLR territory borders on, but that money buys you a laundry list of features: face detection and shutter, which is triggered automatically when it detects a smile or you alert when someone blinks kann720 HD video with autofocus, Zoom and stereo sound, a complete mix of automatic and scene specific shooting modes along with full manual controls, a built-in (ND) neutral density filter and electronic virtual horizon and a pretty comprehensive in-camera image editing suite. The camera is equipped with a 100 to 3200 ISO sensitivity range native (expandable to 6400 to 12800 when shooting in the low-noise night mode and manually) with their 1/1.7-inch CCD sensor, and the processing technology is Nikon’s latest EXPEED-C2. There is a built-in Flash, hot shoe, optical viewfinder with a diopter setting, 3, 0-inch LCD monitor with high resolution and 79 MB of internal memory; the camera uses SD/SDHC/SDXC memory media and class 6 or better speed is recommended for video capture.

Nikon includes a lithium ion battery and charger, camera strap, AV and USB cables, quick start guide, user’s manual and CD-ROM software from any camera. Users should keep in mind you that Nikon has – issued a firmware update for the P7000 our review sample not updated, had if you must receive that deals with questions related image-recording time with RAW image focus, covering is zoom and monitor highlight loss with D-lighting enabled. The update is available on the Nikon Web site and is easy to install – it took it before just a few minutes filming for this review, so I have no baseline data on the performance to load the update of the impact on which judge camera operations.

Our Nikon P7000 is now up to current spec, so the only thing is, what must out and shoot.