Comments on: More from BRJC Last Week http://wp.sedulousmind.net/2005/05/01/more-from-brjc-last-week/ Hey me! Talk to me! Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:48:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James http://wp.sedulousmind.net/2005/05/01/more-from-brjc-last-week/comment-page-1/#comment-475 James Mon, 02 May 2005 07:16:38 +0000 http://wp.sedulousmind.net/?p=644#comment-475 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. 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.

]]> By: tin_the_fatty http://wp.sedulousmind.net/2005/05/01/more-from-brjc-last-week/comment-page-1/#comment-474 tin_the_fatty Mon, 02 May 2005 00:01:42 +0000 http://wp.sedulousmind.net/?p=644#comment-474 Is it your photography, but do you notice that noone is exactly smiling? Is it your photography, but do you notice that noone is exactly smiling?

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