![]() The P300 has a small and neat built-in flash, activated by a switch on the side of the camera, which pops-up above-right of the lens and therefore provides a little more clearance and less chance of unwanted red-eye in your photos. Disappointingly the P300 doesn't support the RAW file format, something that all of its main competitors offer, and a prosumer feature that frankly we'd expect on this class of camera. In continuous shooting mode it can capture 8 frames per second when shooting Fine sized JPEGs, albeit only for 7 images, so you can never actually achieve the headline rate in practice in terms of the number of shots that are taken. Maximum resolution JPEGS are stored by the Nikon Coolpix P300 in a couple of seconds. Used in conjunction with the similarly textured thumb-grip on the rear, it allows you to get a secure grip the camera and be able to confidently use it one-handed. Completing the front of the P300 is a small but helpful vertical rubber strip that acts as a handgrip for your right hand, with enough room for two fingers. Top-left of the lens is a single bulb which doubles-up as the self timer and the AF assist lamp. It didn't seem to adversely affect the battery life either, which is around 240 shots, so I'd advise you to turn it on and then forget about it. You don't notice that the camera is actually doing anything different when anti-shake is turned on, just that you can use slower shutter speeds than normal and still take sharp photos. In practice I found that the VR system makes a noticeable difference to the sharpness of the images, as shown in the examples on the Image Quality page. Annoyingly there isn't a dedicated button to turn it on and off (it's somewhat buried in the Setup menu). Nikon have included their VR (Vibration Reduction) image stabilisation system to help prevent camera-shake, an increasingly de-facto feature on a lot of high-end compact cameras. The front of the Nikon Coolpix P300 features the aforementioned 4.2x zoom lens. The P300 feels quite solidly constructed yet at the same time lightweight, with a magnesium alloy chassis and similarly high levels of build quality that you find on Nikon's more expensive cameras. Also note that because of the smaller 1/2.3" sensor, the size employed by the vast majority of compacts, the P300 doesn't blur the background as much as the XZ-1 at the same aperture of F/1.8, although it does deliver good results for a "regular" compact. The lens has a headline-grabbing maximum aperture of f/1.8 at the wide-angle setting, but this quickly drops off as you move through the focal range, reaching a disappointingly slow aperture of F/4.9 at 100mm, which prevents nicely blurred backgrounds from being recorded at the longer telephoto settings. The P300 has a 4.2x zoom lens with a versatile focal range of 24-100mm, more than wide enough for sweeping landscapes yet still offering enough reach for head and shoulder portraits. The P300 is marginally bigger than the Canon PowerShot S95, but quite a bit smaller than the Panasonic Lumix LX5 and the Olympus XZ-1, although all of these models are eminently pocketable. Consequently, unlike those two cameras, you can easily carry the P300 around in a trouser or shirt pocket, as it measures 103.0 x 58.3 x 32.0 mm and weighs less than 200g. The Nikon Coolpix P300 is much smaller and lighter than it's P-series big brother, the P7000, which more closely resembles and competes with the Canon PowerShot G12. The Nikon Coolpix P300 is available in black for £299.99 / $329.95. ![]() The Nikon P300 also features a mechanically-stabilized 4.2x optical zoom with a focal range of 24-100mm and maximum apertures of f/1.8-4.9, sensitivity range of ISO 160 to 3200, PASM shooting modes, full 1080p HD video recording with stereo sound, 7 continuous shots at eight frames per second, and a 3-inch 920,000-dot LCD screen. The P300's most obvious competitors are the Canon PowerShot S95, Panasonic LX5 and the Olympus XZ-1, but unlike all of those models the P300 has a 35% smaller 1/2.3" Back Side Illuminated CMOS sensor with 12.2 megapixels. The Nikon Coolpix P300 is a new pocket compact camera designed to appeal to the keen enthusiast photographer.
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