This tuesday the gift I did to myself finally arrived.

My new camera, a Nikon Coolpix p5100.

I bought it at a good price at pixmania.com. It was 80€ cheaper than the shops around there, and so, also to give them some more incomes, I bough also an additional battery, a fast (150x) SD memory of 4 Gb, a bag for it, and a multy-memory-card usb-reader to make some order on the desk.
The total, with expedition and taxes, was 450€.
My only regret is that the italian nital.it insurance+service is missing, cause the camera is imported for Europe and the services Nikon provides are displaced nationally.

The choice, was really hard.
My initial intention, after a really good experience with Samsung, was to trust the brand and buy another Samsung.
Infact, my final step is to buy a reflex, but I needed a “nearly-professional” camera before that, to learn how to use it in a more professional way, so I thought to buy a bridge.

The problem, was that Samsung have done a lot of confusion with it’s cameras, and I was unable to decide wich one to buy (and to find wich one was the NV-series best camera).
Also, the peak Canon bridge camera was too much expensive for me, 100 more euros and I could have had a small reflex for the same price.
So finally I choosed a P-series Nikon, the best one. Coolpix P5100.
Nikon coolpix p5100 is a bridge camera, so, it’s in the middle between a compact and a reflex.

I arrived home at 19:30 like every day, and I opened the box ensuring that every thing I bought was working correctly.
When I finished, I had a very fast dinner and I runned out of the house with her in my hands.

The initial approach wasn’t good. My “old” Samsung was more intuitive and simple, but that did not worry me cause it is a more professional camera, and that was ok for me.

It’s body is bigger than a normal compact camera, and it have an objective that cames out from the front when it turns on.
It’s not portable like my “old” one, but it can be also carried easily in a small bag (even to attach to the belt) or around the neck with it’s strap.

My first photos with her was really impressive, of course I used only the “automatic” mode but I was really surprised.

I had a Dungeons & Dragon session that night, but I played with her a lot during the game and I setted it up totally before the end of the day.

I will write a serious review of that camera when I will know it better, for now, I can just say it do very nice photos and I’m particularly surprised by the indoor and night shots, they are so bright even with very few light.
Also the flash, the times I tried it, is very well-balanced with the shot.
So if you do a photo with the flash (I hate it but sometimes I have to use it) the target is perfectly illuminated, not too much, not too less.

One of the first reason why I changed camera was that, the impossibility of doing photos in low-light situations, even in morning or just after a sunset, or indoor.