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superzoom cameras just keep getting longer and longer lenses and now we've reached a point where something like this is like having a telescope attached to a point-and-shoot it's the Nikon Coolpix P 600 I'm Josh Goldman with CNET its lens starts at twenty four millimeters and zooms into fourteen hundred and forty millimeters giving it one of the longest lenses on a compact camera and it's less than four hundred and fifty dollars it has other good features - including a small but serviceable electronic viewfinder a high-res three-inch vari-angle LCD a 16 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor fully automatic manual and semi manual shooting modes and video capture at 1080 at 60 eye or 30 P it also has built-in Wi-Fi that lets you use an iOS or Android device to view your shots and transfer them to the device or control the camera remotely and you can add geo tags to your photos some potential downsides to the camera are that it doesn't have a hot shoe for adding a flash it captures JPEGs only so no raw support and while you can certainly use the full zoom range handheld unless you have a lot of light and steady hands you'll probably want it on a tripod to get sharp shots overall shooting performance is okay but zoomed in it can be slow to focus especially with low contrast subjects and the lens does not zoom all that quickly there are special scene modes for birding and moon photos but really you're better off just learning how to use the camera photo quality is very good for its class if a little soft so you'll probably want to do a little post shoot sharpening you could read the full review at cnet.com but for zoom fanatics I doubt it'll disappoint for the money I'm Josh : and that's a look at the nikon cool hundred