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Nikon is always a reliable brand,great point and shoot....zoom features,for all new and experienced photograpers..and quick on lighting levels.
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This camera would be good for portraits or landscapes. It's lack of manual focus and it's poor autofocus make it unsuitable for candid or action shooting. I took 14 shots of the same still life; the autofocus messed up each and every shot.
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I was skeptical of this light as a feather camera with a plastic body but I decided to to try it so I'd have an easy camera to carry to magnify distant subjects. The camera has been dumbed down for tyros with minimal buttons but it leaves room for a photographer to experiment and adjust his or her shots. I was amazed at the picture quality which is comparable to higher priced Nikons and I was particularly pleased at how the camera excels in low light situations. Magnification is good and sharpness is there if you remember to shoot with both hands and squeeze the shutter release. Image stabilization can only do so much. Higher priced cameras offer more features and heftier weight but picture results are comparable. All in all an excellent purchase and a good camera to grow with!
The Nikon L120 seems to be a decent camera for it's price range. It has a firm and solid grip, unlike the small point and shoots that always seem to slip out of my hands. It has the look and feel of a small SLR even though, technically, it isn't an SLR. There are dozens of pre-set settings to select for all types of photo environments, but only the ISO setting and white balance setting have manual controls. Everything else, including focus, is automatic only. This limits creative control of your image. Of course, if you're a point and shoot photographer, this camera averages out the exposure and focus well enough to get most shots well. The main feature is the 21x zoom lens. Nikon cut some corners here, because this lens has a high amount of geometric distortion at the wide angle setting (vertical objects like doorways appear slanted). The image looses sharpness in the four corners at most lens zoom settings, and there is visible chromatic abberation (color fringes around objects in the edges of the frame). In fact, when you look closely, the image never has that crisp sharpness normally associated with a 14 megapixel cemera. My older Nikon D50 was only 6 megapixels, but it's better lens yielded super crisp images. Again, the L120 is only a 250 dollar camera. The image is average with shots taken indoors without flash. Light sensitivity is fairly good, but at the cost of some graininess. Colors are highly saturated, sometimes a little too much. Most people like vibrant color, so it may not be an issue. Video quality at the highest setting of 720 is only so-so. There is no 1080 mode. Videos are more grainy than they should be, with more digital artifacts and less sharpness than a FLIP video pocket camera. In 720 video mode, the FLIP is still king. The stereo audio quality is pretty good, but sometimes it picks up the noises of the camera's internal mechanisms. There's no external mike input or headphone jack. An HDMI port allows you to view your stills and videos on any HDMI equipped HD TV. The camera uses 4 standard AA cells and comes without a charger. That means you'll need to invest in a charger and rechargeable nickel metal hydride batteries, or lots of alkalines. While common alkaline AA cells are convenient to find at any store in a pinch, their expenses add up. Replacing four batteries in the field while trying to get the polarities right and not drop the camera can also be a challenge. For the average photographer, this is a lot of camera for the money, and it certainly looks and feels impressive for 250 dollars. But an avid photographer is probably not going to be satisfied with the image quality or the lack of complete manual control.Read full review
The only complaint that I could really have about the camera is it doesnt come with a Nikon brand neck strap, and I question if the image stabilization feature works allot of the zoomed pictures are fuzzy with hand shake or minimal subject movement, good camera, actually wish the body was slightly larger, and an view besides the LCD would be great for outdoor high light situations.
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