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hey everyone this is Jimmy with Jim's review room I can't release one of the most insane built in zooming cameras for the average consumer the Coolpix p900 feature is the ability to zoom in 83 times it makes it equivalent to a 24 to 2,000 millimeter telephoto lens and it's only priced at 599 dollars as of this video so what I'll do is we'll take a look at the exterior and also some photos I've taken around town as well and I'll give you my insight along the way so let's get started here without further ado I'm here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to jim's reviewer now this review is for the average consumer looking for a good camera to take on their family trips or vacations so I won't be going too deep into the jargon but letting me the viewer see how this works and in the end how the photo should look as well but starting with the physical build it weighs in at about 2 pounds which went held it does have some weight to it but comparing to the Canon t5i or a Nikon d3100 this coolpix is just slightly heavier due to the huge lens inside it's really not too bad but grabbing this has been great though as it does offer a very deep and contoured grip not to mention very sticky contact surfaces now on top you have of course your a trigger button with zooming in and out slotting either way now slightly below that is your mode selection like auto aperture and shutter priority now to the right is your scroll wheel for going through your menu options and use to adjust your settings now going to the back of the camera you have your LCD display to turn on and off display options and the video record button now below that are your very standard features that you basically see on most cameras today now one thing I wanted to talk about is the electronic viewfinder when the camera is on and you have your LCDs foothold out and facing you now if it's too bright outside or if you want to see where you're aiming at a little bit better you look into the viewfinder and it turns the external LCD off automatically and basically the viewfinder on but looking through the electronic viewfinder it's not optical the real-time image in the viewfinder is lacking because it's digitally processed now some details of the image is lost and the colors are a bit washed out it's not a deal-breaker but I felt somewhat of a downgrade going from looking at the LCD and then into the viewfinder itself but moving on here indeed the LCD can swivel out it's perfect for aligning the camera for a group photo or getting in frame basically and having the camera timer essentially go off I know with my other cameras I use this feature a lot actually the LCD is not a touchscreen and it does offer a plastic-like feel that flexes ever so slightly nonetheless the screen still performs as it should and serves its purpose now going to the right side here you have not a many but a micro HDMI port for connecting this to your TV and above that is a micro USB port for exchanging data and files but even better it's also used for charging your camera's battery no special proprietary cords or charging docks needed but still on the right side here is a NFC sensor it's abbreviated for near-field communication now if you have a smart phone with NFC capabilities you basically just download the app and then afterwards you just tap on this side of the camera and this will create a wireless link between the two devices basically creates the ability for you to beam your selected photos from the camera and set it directly to your smart phone and it's ideal for those who wants to basically upload their photos to Twitter Instagram or Facebook etc and it's ideal for those who basically don't have a good camera on their smart phones themselves but the connection is fast since it's over Wi-Fi and I didn't encounter any issues with syncing data as long as both devices are in the same house obviously or in the same area and on the same network now looking at the very bottom very underrated here but very important is a tripod mount and then to the right hold your battery and full-size SD card slot but now talking about the lens here on the line of Quebec's cameras there is not a manual or focus ring on the barrel of the lens to zoom in there's a lever on the side though or you can use the one near the trigger button as mentioned earlier and although again there's no focus ring you still do have manual focus though but it's basically inside the menu options at the guitar go through the settings now you have to be in another mode besides auto and then when you press down on the directional button you select MF instead of AF basically for manual focus and autofocus respectively and there you can spin the dial and basically change the depth of where you want to focus but I'll mitt this method is cumbersome and it's there if you need it but I think this camera is really geared towards the average consumer who won't be using manual focus for these kind of shots and if you aren't looking for this specific control another DSLR would be a little bit more ideal for you but overall the Coolpix p900 feels well put together and durable despite some areas where you can tell Nikon went with a lower-cost material but more importantly here how are the photos now we'll start with the main selling feature the ability to basically zoom in here's an overall picture looking at a construction site there's two guys here that I'll eventually zoom upon again at yellow construction vest and the other is on the roof in a orange vest now here's the first photo and it's crazy how close this thing gets and keep in mind this is all optical not digital zoom which would have degraded the picture a bit here now here's the second photo and this time on to the construction worker on the roof now this is pretty impressive again for a six hundred dollar camera now keep in mind if you're thinking of buying this be sure to have a tripod now if you're zoomed in this close and then holding it with just your bare hands its ultra sensitive and the image will basically shake everywhere you'll need something to keep this camera stable and now just for giggles here here's a digitally zoomed image which I never liked on any camera anyways but you can see it's even closer yes but it does introduce some distortion to the image and now here one last shot of zooming in an overall Street View and I'll be zooming right into that traffic light in the sensor now the image for a $600 camera is good in my opinion but the ability to zoom in like this is pretty impressive you can see the texture of the cable a nice soft Sheen to the rubber jacket as well but let's now look at regular everyday photos now keep in mind my videos are edited but the photos on screen I'm showing has been not edited at all now this is what it looks like straight from the coolpix 900 itself very clean images a little more ray on the vertical rails though but it's to be expected on smaller sensor cameras like this one now I had taken a picture of this stop sign here as well to see how accurate it is in regards to color reproduction and it's pretty much spot-on the stop sign indeed is faded a bit in person and the camera didn't over compensate or under saturate the image it looks accurate from this sample here but now in regards to you low-light performance overall if you're not zooming so much on the image it looks fine but if you do look at the finer details I personally did notice there's slightly more noise in the dark areas compared to my crop sensor nikon d50 100 now the coolpix does have a smaller sensor and I expected it to underperform a bit in low-light but overall I believe this image is still usable if you're the average consumer and last is a macro test basically seeing how closest they can get to a subject and this thing does ridiculously well now it is springtime and this bum will be here on the ground was right there in front of me and it is dusted in pollen here and aiming right at his head it looks crazy in detail a bit freaky but it's illustration on macros or just playing close-up shots it's quite impressive so overall with photo quality contrary to what the LCD screen or viewfinder shows once you bring home the photos and put them on your computer they come out really nice and for the most part performed as good as my more expensive Nikon d50 100 now the only downfalls are it's limited and not as good low-light performance and the low megapixel count but for the price and the smaller sensor built into the camera it is you can say to be expected it's not really a downfall but it's reasonable for its price the colors more importantly do come out accurate and granted most of my photos were shot over several days and each day was just cloudy basically the picture still came out pretty well and one thing I haven't mentioned yet is the image stabilization now for non super zoomed in photos if you do have somewhat shaky hands the image stabilization helps tremendously and keeping the image where you want it to basically snap your photo but at the end of the day you are paying a bit more in the coolpix line for that zooming feature and as you've seen in the photos and the samples you can see it does very well it's the main selling feature of the P 900 so hope this review helped you in some way if you like my work add me on to your social media right now on either Facebook Twitter or Instagram using my name here jim's review room so that's it for this video feel free to take a look at my other work here and I'll see you guys on the next one you guys take care