The all-in-one ultra-zoom bridge camera remains as popular as ever – with Sony announcing the brand new RX10 V yesterday! With a 1inch sensor, and premium 24-600mm equivalent lens the price is currently $2300/£2200! Far out of the reach of many photographer’s budgets. However, if you want LOTS of zoom, in fact the World’s longest telephoto zoom camera ever made, then the Nikon Coolpix P1100 is just that, and currently roughly $1000 / £1000 new. With a 125x optical zoom lens the zoom range is an incredible 24-3000mm equivalent! No other camera offers this much zoom range, so whether you are shooting colourful mushrooms, music events or even the moon, you can reach further than anything else.
The Nikon Coolpix P1100 manages to get such an impressive amount of zoom, thanks to the use of a much smaller sensor when compared to the 1-inch sensor used in the Sony RX10 V (with 25x zoom), and some smartphones, but it’s difficult to argue with the laws of physics, as a smaller sensor, allows for a higher crop factor, and a smaller lens than would otherwise be needed. With DSLR-like styling, it comes with a vari-angle screen, and an electronic viewfinder, as well as the all-important 4K video recording.
Nikon Coolpix P1100 at a glance
- 125x optical zoom lens, 24-3000mm equivalent, with optical image stabilisation (VR)
- 16MP BSI-CMOS sensor (6.2 x 4.6mm)
- ISO 100-6400, 7fps burst shooting
- 3.2in 921k-dot vari-angle LCD
- 2.36m-dot OLED electronic viewfinder
- 4K video at 30p, 1080p at 60p
- 260-shot battery life
- 146.3 x 118.8 x 181.3mm, 1,410g (including battery and SD card)
An update to the P1000, the Nikon Coolpix P1100 has the same 125x optical zoom lens, the longest on any camera making it an appealing ultra-zoom bridge camera, if you don’t mind the size, and weight. The 125x optical zoom lens offers the equivalent to 24 – 3000mm from ultra-wide to super telephoto zoom optically but – enable the 4x digital zoom – and this goes up to 12,000mm!
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Related reading:
- Sony RX10 V review – the return of the king of bridge cameras
- Save big money on a ‘phenomenally capable’ Sony compact camera with 8.3x zoom
- Best Nikon cameras for photography and video
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