In the previous review I wrote some technical first-touch tips about my new Nikon Coolpix P5100.
The best bridge camera by Nikon.

Now, after more than a month of use, I want to complete that review.
I tested the camera a lot, in night, fog and rain situations, and I’m really satisfied.

I bought also a tripod (gorillaPod) to make some photos of Venice in odd and hard places.
Very funny.
I will talk about him later.

The Coolpix behaves very well.

Let’s begin with the sad part… the macro.

I did a lot of tests between my new Nikon Coolpix P5100 and my old Samsung digimax i6, and I can say that the Samsung Digimax is insuperable.

Here are some… examples…
A spider web with some crap behind it:
Nikon: Samsung:

And another spider web with some free space behind it:
Nikon: Samsung:

Focusing with the Nikon is very hard, and the 4 centimeters of limit don’t helps.
I will still go around with both of them, for a while…

The manual modes features up to 8 seconds of exposition, and a lot of interesting options.
That allows to do very bright photos, even in very low light situations.

Indoors, the camera is definitive, cause every kind of light is well compensated, also neon flickering light.

For example, look at this photo did with the programmed manual mode and 8 seconds of exposition:

That light was hurting my eyes: low, and blinking very slowly.
But that was nothing for the camera.

After that I did some very bright photos of Venice…

This is a bit exagerated (I over exposed it on purpose):

And that is really cute:

I did also one without tripod, just taking the camera in my hands, obtaining a nice result:

I love Venice in the night:

• gloomy
• no tourists
• a lot of colors

Every photo you do with the Nikon Coolpix P5100 you can be safe that she did her work, always on focus, always good quality.

So, let’s round off with a pros and cons list:

• STRONG POINTS
  • Awesome quality (12 mega pixels, all in their place)
  • VERY LOW rumor (I still have to see any red-blue-green pixels)
  • Compact size (98 x 64,5 x 41 mm) and a light weight (200 g)
  • Well working functions and automated modes
  • the battery really endures a lot
  • Manual functions comparable to a reflex digital camera
  • The quality is the same of my father’s Nikon D70, a very expensive reflex.
• WEAK POINTS
  • Not good for Macros… it tries to imitate the reflex cameras inheriting this flaw
  • I had to buy a case for it, buyng a too large one.
    Was it too much expensive to gift one in the box?