More from BRJC Last Week at James Mok’s Soliloquy

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at 21:23 UTC May 1, 2005 in Arts&Crafts and Family. 2 Comments

1 tin_the_fatty
May 2nd, 2005 at 8:01 UTC

Is it your photography, but do you notice that noone is exactly smiling?
2 James
May 2nd, 2005 at 15:16 UTC

The horse was smiling…

We are the Adam’s family.

Actually, I was more eager to test the functions and ability of the Nikon Coolpix 7900 than to do any real photography. Also, eating outside that day wasn’t such a good idea after all as there were zero wind during the entire lunch.

As for the Coolpix 7900, at HKD$3.3K for a 7MPix “silly” P&S DC wasn’t bad. AWB is one of the best I have seen in any DC except when switched from full auto to the Portrait Shooting Mode which for some unknown reasons turns all faces pink. Maybe it’s Pink Panther hit for Nikon this season.

So, even though the Face Focus Mode (only available within the Portrait Shooting Mode), which locks on to a face no matter where the face is moved with the viewer forward or back, was a great idea, pink faces renders it rather useless.

Sport Spectator Shooting Mode fixed focus to a DoF of 4m-inf while allowing instant shutter release, also locks out the flash and switch to continuous (1.7fps) drive mode; which is great for snapshots.

Although the CP7900 is still not perfect, so far I am very happy with the overall image quality of the CP7900; perhaps more so than any P&S DC I have ever owned. Function wise though, I still like the CP995 best.

James Mok’s Soliloquy