Digital Camera Fiend - A Camera Review

Nikon has put a lot of great products on the market in the past year, and its efforts have not gone unnoticed.

The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has tapped three recent Nikon products for best photographic and imaging awards: the Nikon 55-200mm VR lens, the D40x Digital SLR camera, and the COOLPIX P5000 compact camera.

TIPA, a non-profit European organization, is composed of professionals from the photo and imaging publishing industry. We were very happy to see that two of the items they selected for awards happened to be products that digital camera fiend also highly recommended.

We raved about the D40X as did the TIPA judges in their official comments calling it “an excellent DSLR for those entering the world of digital photography. [It has] superb image quality and a very fast shutter response.”

The 55-200mm VR telephoto zoom lens has been called the best lens of the year by photographer Ken Rockwell. TIPA judges praised its VR (vibration reduction) technology, which helps cancel out camera shake.
“Thanks to the VR mode, it is possible to shoot sharp images with up to three stops less light,” judges said, calling it the “perfect complement for the standard 18-55mm lens.”

And last we have the COOLPIX P5000, a product I admit I am not too familiar with. The TIPA judges liked the amount of manual control in this point and shoot camera.

[The P5000] brings the creative controls of a DSLR into the body of a compact camera,” one judge said.

This high-end compact camera is crammed with a 10-megapixel sensor, a 2.5 LCD screen as well as an optical viewer for traditionalists, and fast access to manual modes.

All in all, a stellar year for Nikon.