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| I finally had a nice spring day to take some pictures and was
impressed by the color and sharpness, even shooting with the macro
setting. Look at my CoolPix 2500
Portfolio. |
| The camera is capable of bright, sharp images, worthy of
the Nikon name. But the physical design can work against you if you're not
careful. Initially I found it hard to hold steady. There's nothing to rest
against your eye when shooting. As with most digital cameras, only holding it with two hands is
possible.
The Xtend-a-View can fix this if I get it adapted with a longer
elastic strap. |
Quoted from a forum post:
I picked up the 2500 a couple of weeks ago for those times I don't want to
bring the 5000 with me. I've gone on 2 trips and found the camera to be
better than I had hoped. The build quality is good, the pictures are
turning out very good, it easily fits in a pocket, and it works good just
in auto mode but with all of the scene settings I'm getting some very good
pictures. The battery life has been terrific also. The only 2 drawbacks
I've found are - no viewfinder, but the LCD is easy to see and the focus
on the camera is very accurate - no slideshow playback mode, I like to use
that when people want to see my pictures, you just have to show them how
to scroll through the picturess. I've owned a Canon Elph s100 and Canon
A20 for small portable cameras and the 2500 far outperforms either one. |
 | First Impressions
 | Ships with NikonView 5 but I WON'T install it so
don't ask me anything about the software.
 | It's 18 megabytes on the CD so please STOP E-MAILING ME
TO SEND YOU THE PROGRAM |
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| Uses a new thinner proprietary battery EN-EL2 |
| Wrist/Neck Strap attaches to the left hand side (wrong side if you
want to use it as a wrist strap) because the right side has the
CF/battery door |
| Lens has no threads for accessories |
| Seems to have infrared sensitivity. I tested it with the 88A and
it has interesting possibilities. |
| I will also be taking some of the unmodified files for Fuji
Frontier prints to see how they look at 4x6 and 8x10 |
| Tripod socket on the bottom |
| Extend-a-View is compatible (like the
CoolPix 5000) but needs more
of a strap to go around the camera than to go around the LCD on the
5000 (off to JoAnn Fabrics again) |
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I've started a CoolPix 2500 Portfolio |
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