Nikon Coolpix P330 2024 review

Nikon Coolpix P330 review

Nikon Coolpix P330 is a brand new level and shoot from Nikon that provides you a 5x optical zoom, a 24 to 120 mm wide-angle zoom lens, with a most aperture of f/1.eight. It’s focused at a client who’s extra management on the digicam than a fundamental point-and-shoot, with out the majority related to a DSLR. Does the Coolpix P330 ship on this rely? Let’s discover out.
Within the field

Nikon Coolpix P330 digicam 2024
Nikon EN-EL-12 Lithium Ion Battery
Charger with unpolarised NEMA plug
Convertor to make use of with Indian sockets
USB cable
RCA to USB/AV out cable
Lanyard (Handstrap)
CD With reference guide
CD With Nikon View NX2 software program
Guarantee playing cards and manuals
Although the digicam is able to recording full-HD video, and in addition has an HDMI port, Nikon doesn’t embody an HDMI Cable, and provides a RCA Cable. This felt a bit odd.

Nikon Coolpix P330 2024 Construct/ Design

The second you are taking it out of the field, the very first thing that you just discover concerning the Nikon Coolpix P300 is the boxy sharp really feel. If you maintain it in your arms, the grip is fairly stable – from the rubberised thumb relaxation to the steel physique, it feels stable and really properly constructed, but stays mild sufficient to be carried round.

The buttons are simply accessible for single-handed taking pictures, together with your thumb having the ability to management each the mode dial in addition to the shutter pace dial in case you’re taking pictures on the guide. From an ergonomics standpoint, the entrance of the digicam is flat, however a raised bump of rubber ensures that your grip is tight and the digicam stays agency in your hand.

Nikon Coolpix P330 Options/ Efficiency

As talked about earlier, the Nikon Coolpix P300 is designed for a consumer who needs extra from a point-and-shoot digicam, or for somebody who’s used to a DSLR however needs to journey mild. The mode dial lets you choose from a Full Auto mode, Portrait mode, Shutter Precedence mode (S), Aperture Precedence mode (A), a full Guide mode (M), a Consumer Outlined mode (U), a Scene mode and a Night time Image mode. The on-off button is in the midst of two massive dials, the mode dial and the shutter pace management dial, and each the dials are straightforward to function. With the Energy button depressed in a groove, you do not unintentionally hit it whereas taking pictures, which is sweet.

The everyday Vast to Tele zoom dial and a moderately massive shutter button are current as effectively.

The Nikon Coolpix P300 comes with extra ‘mode’s than your typical point-and-shoot digicam. In most compact cameras, you sometimes get a Portrait mode, a Auto mode, a Scenes mode and maybe a Night time Shot mode. The P330, nevertheless, comes with a Shutter precedence mode, the Aperture precedence mode, the Full Guide mode, in addition to a Consumer Outlined mode, providing the form of management and suppleness you often see in a DSLR.

To get began with the digicam, you pop it open on the backside and insert the battery and the reminiscence card (the digicam takes SD, SDHC and SDXC Playing cards). With the reminiscence slot on the backside, when you mount the digicam on a tripod, you may must take it off simply to alter the cardboard.

Switching on the digicam the primary time round requires you to setup the time, date, the nation you’re in and the language. Shortly ending this setup, you may go and setup the ISO Settings or go away them to the default Auto. There’s a Operate button on the entrance aspect of the digicam, that you would be able to allocate a perform of your selection, reminiscent of to alter the ISO, which is what I did. Setup your metering to both spot or centre weighted, and your focussing, and the digicam is able to go.

It’s good to see that Nikon provides RAW capabilities on the digicam, and it can save you the pictures in RAW and JPEG each. In case you are taking pictures in JPEG mode (default) ensure you set the picture high quality to Advantageous Setting as by default it’s set to Customary.

The display is fairly sharp and brilliant, and labored effectively on an out of doors shoot throughout the day on the Golden Temple, Amritsar. I had the solar shining on me, and with the water from the sarovar reflecting the solar, there have been only a few occasions I missed the viewfinder.

I used to be anticipating the entrance dial across the lens to be rotatable in order that I might use that for settings however that’s fastened, this implies in a full Guide mode, the shutter pace settings are performed by the dial on high, however for the Aperture settings you need to depend upon the scroll wheel close to the menu buttons on the again. I modified to Aperture mode to understand that the aperture settings might be managed solely by this dial, and was unable to discover a technique to swap the settings in order that I might use the dial on high for aperture management.

Anyway, because the digicam provided an f/1.eight aperture and I used to be taking pictures some scenes on the finish of the day, it made extra sense for me to make use of aperture mode, I setup the ISO to be round 400 and put the digicam on a large Shutter of f/1.eight and bought some nice footage.

The truth that I couldn’t swap between selecting which dial is for aperture setting and which for shutter was a little bit of a hassle at first, however as soon as I bought used to the position, it wasn’t a lot of a difficulty. However sure, I did handle to rotate the mistaken dial on a few events.
What is sweet to see with Nikon is that the flash is now solely a guide popup. This implies the digicam will warn you that it wants the flash and you’ll have to pop it up manually from the aspect, so no mis-fires of the flash and getting unhealthy footage. For those who do not really want flash, you may shut it by miserable it and it will not hearth once more till you increase it once more manually.

The lens is optically stabilised and when you’ve got visited the Golden temple, you’ll know that the queues can stretch as much as an hour of ready. I used the lens at full zoom to take a couple of photographs, and the digicam managed these fairly effectively and delivered sharp ends in the daytime. Nonetheless, at evening one must be cautious and ideally use a flat floor on which the digicam is or use a tripod, to get the right shot. The wide-angle lens is a superb companion for taking portrait in addition to panorama photographs, and the digicam appears fairly steady whereas additionally feeling good within the hand.

The digicam comes with a built-in GPS that data location of your photographs. The GPS performs spot on, however you do must replace the A-GPS file if you begin it, it’s sharp and exact and finds a lock immediately, although indoors is often a difficulty.

Nikon Coolpix P330 might be connected to a WU-1A cell adapter accent from Nikon that permits you to take footage remotely over Wi-Fi out of your cell phone. You possibly can see the dwell view sitting at a distance from the digicam and even switch pictures from the digicam to your cell phone to share over the Web. The accent prices an extra Rs. three,510.

The Digital camera costs over a USB Port, this implies there is no such thing as a want to hold an extra adapter, however you do have to hold the USB cable provided because it makes use of a unique format of the USB connector on the Digital camera finish. It’s also possible to purchase a separate charger for the battery in case you want one.

The Nikon Coolpix P330 comes with a three.Zero-inch display with 912ok dots that’s good and brilliant however at occasions on a really sunny day chances are you’ll miss a viewfinder.

Nikon Coolpix P330 Focus system

The main target system on the Nikon Coolpix P330 is fairly environment friendly for a point-and-shoot. A half press of the shutter kicks within the auto focus and in about quarter of a second the picture is focussed with no delay going ahead. In tough conditions, like daylight coming from the entrance of the digicam, I did miss the guide focus, however the digicam tailored fairly effectively, and the resultant picture was fairly good.

Nikon Coolpix P330 Picture high quality

One doesn’t anticipate DSLR high quality pictures from a point-and-shoot, however the P330 carried out effectively over all. I shot many of the pictures in RAW and used Aperture on a Mac to course of these pictures. Even whereas viewing and cropping at full-zoom, the pictures retained their sharpness. Whereas the picture high quality cannot actually be in comparison with these from a bigger sensor, however the backlit sensor within the P330 helped in getting some nice pictures within the night and a few very sharp pictures within the day.

To some the 12-megapixel sensor could appear small or undersized, however in my utilization expertise, I didn’t thoughts a barely smaller sensor. Until you’re planning to explode a picture and put it up as a hoarding at a crossing, you would not want any extra megapixels both.

The digicam performs very effectively indoors beneath synthetic mild. From photographs taken at a restaurant, to a public park at evening, I by no means felt the necessity of popping up the flash, and the images nonetheless got here out fairly good. This implies that you would be able to carry it to a party and handle to get some fascinating footage with out flashing individuals of their eyes, or worrying about purple eyes. Solely in uncommon instances the place it was pitch darkish did I really feel the necessity to use the flash.

The flash is designed fairly effectively and does a good fill in the place required, although chances are you’ll not discover a cause to make use of the flash, due to a very good low mild efficiency on the digicam. Nonetheless, on the uncommon event that you just do, the flash fills within the scene with out changing into overbearing. Everytime you use a flash (with any digicam), be sure that there may be sufficient distance between you and the topic, in order that the flash bounces off correctly and you do not find yourself with areas which can be pure white.

Nikon Coolpix P330 Video

I’m not very keen on taking pictures movies with point-and-shoot cameras, however the video high quality on the Nikon Coolpix P330 was surprisingly good. I shot a video of the household driving all the way down to the holy metropolis, and the digicam picked up voices simply within the automotive, although it did have a little bit of visitors noise, indicating that the digicam has good reception. The video itself appeared fairly sharp.

The digicam can take 1080p full high-definition movies and in case you’re operating wanting house in your card, you may all the time swap the video decision all the way down to 720p and even 480p. The digicam additionally helps you to click on a snapshot whereas recording the film when you press the shutter button all the way in which down, however bear in mind the shutter sound will get recorded too.

The autofocus takes slightly little bit of time to readjust if you zoom in or out, or say, transfer outside from indoors, however total it carried out decently for a house video shoot. In case you want to take some films at a party or your children’ college occasion, the digicam is unlikely to allow you to down.

Nikon Coolpix P330 Battery life

The Nikon Coolpix P330 makes use of an EN-EL-12 lithium ion battery that’s discovered on fairly a couple of Nikon point-and-shoot cameras. The battery delivers 200+ photographs on a single cost.

The battery might be charged whereas contained in the digicam by merely connecting the digicam to a USB port (USB charger is included). The battery may also be charged externally (with out the digicam) with a separate charger (not included), in case you’re somebody who likes to have a number of batteries round for backup.

Nikon Coolpix P330 Verdict

Total, particularly for its worth, the Nikon Coolpix P330, looks as if a beautiful digicam. There are different point-and-shoots that carry out this effectively, however all of them are within the Rs. 30,000 plus class. On the present worth level of Rs. 16,950, the P330 is a superb purchase.

I did miss not having a Grid to assist compose my photographs, and the P330 would not appear to have a setting to allow this both. I additionally didn’t like the truth that I couldn’t swap the aperture management and shutter management dials, although the flexibility to set perform button to no matter you want is fairly helpful. The Consumer mode is nice to get the digicam out of the pocket and shoot instantly on customized settings.

The steel physique although has a boxy look which makes the digicam look moderately dated, however if you maintain it in your hand and truly give it a shot, the digicam feels great and stable, due to it is mixture of steel and rubber.

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