A brief review of the Nikon Coolpix P950 camera by Robert Allen (click on photos for larger view): If you had told me years ago that I would be taking closeup photos of birds and airplanes with a Nikon Coolpix, Nikon’s line of point and shoot cameras, I would have said you were crazy. However, here we are in 2020 and that’s exactly what I have been doing. More specifically, I have been putting the Nikon Coolpix P950 through its paces. As an event and portrait photographer based in Boise Idaho, you can imagine that my business activity of recent has come to a screeching halt due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. I shot my last event on March 9th. This has left me with plenty of extra time to do personal photography projects. One project that has been on my list is to try one of Nikon’s superzooms within their Coolpix line of cameras. I had my eye on the P900 when it came out but the one thing that held me back was the lack of an option to shoot in RAW mode. When the P1000 came out, finally RAW was an option! I still didn’t purchase the P1000 because I thought it was too large. When the P950 was announced, I thought it was the perfect goldilocks compromise, larger than the P900, smaller than the P1000 and with RAW shooting as a bonus. I won’t repeat the specs of the Coolpix P950 here, there are only a...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Saturday, 9 May, 2020