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If you're looking for a top-of-the-line digital camera with professional quality and features, look no further--the Nikon Coolpix 950 finally brings high-level digital performance to the consumer camera market. The Coolpix 950's combination of a high-quality Nikkor nine-element lens with a 0.5-inch 2.11-million-pixel CCD provides incredibly sharp, clear pictures. In addition, this camera's ultrasensitive autofocus and metering capabilities make it easy to take great pictures in a variety of... read more PC World Magazine, Harry McCracken, January 1, 1999
No doubt about it: Nikon's Coolpix 950 makes an outstanding camera for serious picture takers. It bowled us over with the most high-fidelity photographs of any camera here; viewed on screen, they sometimes looked better than 35mm prints. In images of people, fine details like eyelashes and skin texture were remarkably clear. "You can see things that you'd rather not see," observed one judge approvingly. Though we achieved excellent results simply by pressing the shutter, the Coolpix 950's manual... read more From Imaging Resource
Overall, we were extremely impressed with the image quality from the CoolPix 950: Exposure was consistently accurate, with bright, clean colors, and exceptional detail, as befits a 2.1 megapixel digicam. When we saw the first images from the 950, it was immediately obvious that the Nikon engineering team hadn't been resting on their laurels after creating the CoolPix 900! The 900 consistently produced good, accurate color, but was rather conservative in its use of the available tonal scale,... read more Product Description
Nikon's impressive Coolpix 950 gives you both professional-level quality and the ease of fully automatic operation. At 1,600 x 1,200 pixels, this digital camera gives you top-of-the-line image resolution. A wide range of advanced options include high-speed continuous shooting of up to two frames per second and aperture- and shutter-priority exposure modes for creative control. You can even save images in uncompressed TIFF for the ultimate in color and picture quality. Includes an 8 MB removable... read more
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High Cost - Disappointing Outcome
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Reviewer:
Peter G.
from Chicago
January 13, 2000
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Purchased and returned the camera. From an optical perspective and the quality of the images, quite a great camera. Considering the substantial cost, several items were very disappointing and caused me to return it on a cost vs. benefit aspect: 1) The camera does not come with a recharger and appropriate NiCad (or better) batteries. Regular alkaline batteries last about 30 min. for normal use. 2) The connection to the PC requires a serial port only. Would be a nice option to include USB hookup. My computer's serial ports are all used for other devices. 3) An 8MB flash card that holds a mere 16 images in the 'normal' mode. 4) When connected to the PC, the pictures cannot be easily transferred to software programs that can sort, package or send the pictures. A cumbersome copy procedure has to be utilized to get the pictures on the hard drive; from there they need to be imported to the software. Even with a 450 Pentium II machine, the transfer was slow (even at the fasted speed setting for the serial port). The instructions confirmed that photo software does not recognize the camera as a device to copy from. It should work just like a scanner (from a system's perspective). I think the folks at Nikon have a great camera here but need to work on making it more cost effective and user friendly. To bring the camera up to speed a minimum of another $200+ would have to be invested. (Batteries, charger and larger flash card) The PC hook-up could be greatly improved and made more user friendly. Considering the already high cost this is not yet a good package. I was sorry to return it.
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Great Camera
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Reviewer:
Bob Newton
from Dallas, Texas
January 5, 2000
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I will make this short for you! If you need/want a great digital camera get the Coolpix 950. Play with the settings. It does not take long to learn. I didn't need the manual. Click away, no film to waste :-) I had a Sony Mavica! I dumped it soon after the purchase. Trust Nikon, they know what they are doing!
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Great Product - Does Everything But Make Dinner...
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Reviewer:
Wayne Schulz
from Marlborough, CT
December 31, 1999
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I just received this camera about a week ago. Since then I'vereplaced the 8mb memory card with a 96mb card. This camera definitely takes some getting used to. I'm taking mostly photo's of my new twins and find that I'm either afflicted with the palsy or the camera is super sensitive to shaking. Suggest trying a tripod (that is my next investment). I think you also need to experiment with things like shutter speed to get the maximum picture out of the camera. I have had very mixed results with closeups but blame myself for not having gotten the hang of this yet. Overall it is a really nice unit, solidly built. You'll need a bigger memory card, probably a USB card reader and NIMH batterys (don't let them sell you NICADS - get the 1500mah NIMH along with a 1 hour rapid charger). You won't be sorry with the camera!
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Best Digital Camera Going
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Reviewer:
Tom Jones
from San Clemente, CA
December 23, 1999
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I've owned my Coolpix 950 for over six months now, and it was one of the best investments I've made. The imaging is astounding. I could read the numbers on football players on a T.V. in the background, of a dimly lit bar. I read the reviews in P.C. Mag which said if you want 35mm quality you had to have a camera with 2.1 megapixels, but this baby exceeds the quality of a 35mm. Two things though, The software leaves a lot to be desired, and the flash ram is way to small if you want high quality pictures in any quantity. The 8 megabyte flash ram that comes with the camera will give you 8 high quality pictures. But if you boost it (we bought an 80 megabyte flash ram by SanDisk which is totally compatible) you'll be able to take more pictures than you'll ever need or want. We went to Paris in June and took over 300 pictures (high quality), and the Camera still had a couple of hundred left. You probably don't need the 80 megabyte, but I think you would want the 32 megabyte. Also, while your at it get yourself some AA rechargeable batteries (also high quality), because you'll go through AA's like they are going out of style. People love to see what you have taken in the little LCD screen and it really chews up the batteries. Also, the flash will use them up! If your going to use this as a web publishing tool you couldn't find a better one. I recommend that you use a real digital imaging tool like Photoshop, or MS Imaging. The flash gives most people red eyes (real evil looking) and you'll need to brush that out with a good imaging tool. Also, you can magnify your images 2 or 3X's and not lose quality, and with a good imaging tool you can crop it, lighten, darken, change color, and make thumbnails with a couple of clicks. Hint: Nikon View is cumberson to work with but you can speed up the downloading by using it away from your browser. Load direct from file, instead of from file open from browser then you can choose from the thumbnails (right click the thumbnail, choose copy)then paste it into Word,Powerpoint or Photoshop. If you use Powerpoint, you have a built in slide show. Good Luck!...you'll love it!
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