nikon coolpix 5400 review

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Value for Money5.3/10
Overall rating6.7/10
67% Recommended2 out of 3 Reviews

Review of Nikon Coolpix 5400

By CharlieMoses on 12th May 2004

CharlieMoses's Ratings
Time Digital Camera Owned6 - 12 Months
Image Quality9/10
Battery Life8/10
Features10/10
Ease of Use5/10
Value for money6/10
Overall value9/10
yes CharlieMoses's recommendation

Good Points

This camera has a wide angle lens , zooms to 4x optical. Lens is top quality - gives very low distortion (Barrel and Chromatic). Pictures are noise free, under most photographic conditions. Color accuracy is extra high , for daylight or 'manually set white balance' photos.

Bad Points

Dim photographic conditions makes it hard for the camera to auto-focus.

General Comments

I have a lot of experience with this Nikon Coolpix 5400 digital camera - about 3,000 pictures. I mostly use one of the manual modes, not one of the automatic modes. That is, the camera was designed to be used as a professional would operate a camera. The auto mode is for people that don't have time to learn the finer points of photography. I seem to learn a little bit more every time I use the camera. If one does not want to move into the digital SLR camera category, if buying, then this is a very good camera that makes pictures almost as good as a SLR. The main advantage of the SLR camera is in the big size image sensor, which lets one use rather high ISO's (over 1000), while the Nikon 5400 operates well only for ISO's 50 to 200. I have used shutter speeds as high as 1/4000 sec with this camera, so its image sensor has very fast response. And for dim lit scenes, I have used shutter speeds as slow as 1 second, so, if you can hold the camera still, this camera can take no-flash pictures in dim light settings. The camera can also take rapid fire pictures when in JPG mode - for example 7 frames (full resolution) in about 2 3/4 sec. The TIFF picture mode is availabe - and gives the highest quality pictures, but it is not practical to use, because of very large file size and very slow processing speed. For higher processing speeds, I will normally use the 1600x1200 Fine JPG mode, and picture quality is not significantly different from the TIFF 2,594x1944 pictures. I highly recommend this camera, but have to say, I am partial to Nikon's.

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