Have a look at more ultra-zoom bridge cameras in our Top 10 Best Ultra Zoom Bridge Cameras.You'll also need to buy a memory card and a case or bag to keep your camera safe and protected - have a look at our complete guide to camera bags. In terms of low light sensitivity, this Nikon Coolpix B700’s performance is more modest, generating rather soft, noise heavy results in the eyes of those schooled in more heavy duty devices, even when the camera is switched to dedicated night time shooting mode. Maximum selectable ISO sensitivity is ISO3200 so the camera isn’t exactly stretching itself when it comes to low light usage. Unsurprisingly image noise/grain starts to creep in above ISO800, but even at ISO3200, while results are softer, we would class them as acceptably so. Capture wildlife from a safe distance, shoot stars in the night sky, or take impressive shots at sporting events with the outstandingly long-range 60x NIKKOR zoom lens, extendable to 120x Dynamic Fine Zoom¹. The zoom range covers from 24 mm wide angle to super-telephoto 1440 mm angles of view (equivalent in 35 mm format) and supports powerful macro photography for subjects as close as approximately 1 cm to the lens. Superior performance is guaranteed with trusted NIKKOR optics, featuring Super ED glass. A Super ED lens has advanced capabilities, including an extremely high ability to remove secondary spectra, offering superior chromatic aberration correction characteristics. The Nikon Coolpix B700 is a 20.3 megapixel Bridge camera with a massive 60x optical zoom which is extendable to 120x Dynamic Fine Zoom. Also featured is a high-performance Autofocus (AF) System, 4K UHD movie recording and shoot RAW (NRW) for high-quality photo finishing. 5-stop Dual Detect Optical VR (Vibration Reduction) and side zoom control minimise camera shake, plus you can shoot with the electronic viewfinder or vari-angle LCD monitor. Keep your camera connected to your smart device with SnapBridge. The Coolpix B700 offers various shooting modes, including manual, aperture priority, shutter priority, and fully automatic modes, allowing photographers to have full control over their images. It also has a high-speed continuous shooting capability of up to 5 frames per second, ensuring that fast-paced moments can be captured effortlessly.

The Nikon Coolpix B700 is an ultra-zoom bridge camera that offers 60x optical zoom lens, and 4K video recording. There are not many ultra-zoom cameras offering this much zoom, plus 4K video recording, there's currently this camera, and the Panasonic Lumix FZ82. x 3888], 8M [3264 x 2448], 4M [2272 x 1704], 2M [1600 x 1200], 16:9 15M [5184 x 2920], 3:2 18M [5184 x 3456], 1:1 15M [3888 x 3888] The Nikon COOLPIX B700 is an SLR-styled super-zoom with a 60x optical zoom lens. The lens covers a range from 24mm to 1440mm in 35mm equivalent terms and has a maximum aperture of f3.3 closing to f6.5 at the telephoto end of the zoom. cm (3-in.) diagonal, Approx. 921k-dot (RGBW), wide viewing angle TFT LCD with anti-reflection coating and 6-level brightness adjustment, vari-angle TFT LCDManual transfer using the Bluetooth connection means you only get the keepers on your phone, but it involves a bit more time and effort, not least because the slow Bluetooth connection means it can take a long time to display thumbnails of all the images on the camera’s card on your phone screen, find and select the ones you want, then queue them for transfer. I’d go far as to say if you’re not using SnapBridge’s Bluetooth connection for automatic image transfer, you’re probably better off using Wifi if you want to manually transfer selected images. The screen is a 3 inch LCD panel with resolution of 921k dots. It’s the same panel as on the B500 and they both provide a bright detailed image that’s viewable from a wide angle. The difference is the mounting. While the B500 has an articulated hinge at the bottom allowing you to flip it up and down, the COOLPIX B700’s screen has a hinge at the side with the screen mounted on a rotating pin. This allows you to turn it in any direction – facing forward for selfies, orientated for portrait format shooting, and folded in on itself for protection. The Nikon Coolpix B700 is a digital camera that offers a range of features suitable for both amateur and experienced photographers. It is designed to be compact and portable, making it easy to carry around for various shooting situations. The COOLPIX B700 uses the full width of the sensor to record 4K and downsamples it from 5185 to 3840 pixels wide. The advantage of this approach is that there’s no cropping (at the sides at least, the top and bottom of the frame is cropped because of the different proportions of UHD video – 16:9 – compared with the native 4:3 proportions of the B700’s sensor). 1080p HD video uses a crop from the central portion of the sensor, so the angle of view narrows quite a bit. One advantage of this is that when shooting HD video it’s like having a little bit longer on the zoom range – though you lose out at the wide angle end. Run F-B700-V16W.exe to extract the firmware to a sub-folder in the new folder. The resulting file and folder hierarchy is shown below:

Above left: 100% crop, 4.3-258mm at 258mm 200 ISO 1/50th VR off. Above right: 100% crop, 4.3-258mm at 258mm 200 ISO 1/50th VR on. The camera is equipped with a 20.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, allowing for high-resolution images with vibrant colors and fine details. It also boasts a 60x optical zoom lens, providing the ability to capture subjects from a distance without sacrificing image quality. The COOLPIX B500 is a very different proposition when it comes to batteries as it takes 4 AAs. If you fit it with non-rechargeable alkaline batteries you’ll get around 600 shots, a lot more if you use NiMH or Lithium rechargeables. Personally I think the ability to charge the battery in the camera from a laptop or other source via a USB cable is a big plus for the B700, but there’s no denying the flexibility and convenience that AA’s provide with the B500. Still images: JPEG, RAW (NRW) (Nikon’s own format), Movies: MP4 (Video: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Audio: AAC stereo)

Capture wildlife from a safe distance, shoot stars in the night sky, or take impressive shots at sporting events with the outstandingly long-range 60x NIKKOR zoom lens, extendable to 120x Dynamic Fine Zoom. The zoom range covers from 24 mm wide angle to super-telephoto 1440 mm angles of view (equivalent in 35 mm format) and supports powerful macro photography for subjects as close as approximately 1 cm to the lens. Superior performance is guaranteed with trusted NIKKOR optics, featuring Super ED glass. A Super ED lens has advanced capabilities, including an extremely high ability to remove secondary spectra, offering superior chromatic aberration correction characteristics. Once confirmed, the phone and camera are connected by Bluetooth and you’ll never need to do it again. That is unless you have more than one Snapbridge-enabled camera. As I was testing the COOLPIX B500 and B700 together I found it necessary to unpair and forget one camera on my phone if I wanted to connect the other. This isn’t likely to be a common problem though. Next to the viewfinder is a small sensor which automatically turns the viewfinder on and the screen off when you raise the camera to your eye. There’s also a button to turn off the sensor and switch views manually if you prefer. Why would you want to do that? Well sometimes, for example if the camera is mounted on a tripod and you’re shielding the screen from sunlight with your hand, or when you’re shooting from the waist with the screen flipped up, the sensor can detect your hand or body and toggle to the viewfinder when you don’t want it to. Remote shooting is basic, you can see camera’s view on your phone screen , but you can’t tap to focus and until you take a shot the blurry view isn’t much use. You can zoom the lens using touch buttons on your phone display, though it’s slow and a little clunky and you can activate a self-timer mode. It’s about as primitive as it gets, but if you simply want to set the camera up for a family portrait, or shoot some garden wildlife from the comfort of your kitchen (providing it’s in Wifi range) it’ll do the job. The COOLPIX B700’s combined battery and card compartment is located in the grip and accessed via a door in the base of the camera. It takes the same EN-EL23 battery as the earlier P610 and you can expect to get around 440 shots from a full charge – nearly a hundred more than previously.

A device with Bluetooth ® 4.0 or later (i.e., a device that supports Bluetooth Smart Ready/Low Energy) is required. The vari-angle screen means you can use it for self-portraits, or for monitoring video recording, when in front of the camera, and you can also turn it around to protect the screen. Want to get closer to your photographic subjects from afar? As in really close? Announced last year, we’ve finally wrestled a 20.3 effective megapixel 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor (21.14 million pixels total) incorporating Nikon Coolpix B700, an impressive 60x optical zoom bridge camera (extendable to 120x digitally), on to our PhotographyBlog test slab. The menus are clearly laid out, with each section getting its own main section logo, starting with the photo options, then the video options, etc. This makes it easy to change and find settings, however, the clarity could probably be improved if the menu sections were colour coded, rather than just being the same colour as each other. On the right side of the COOLPIX B700’s body mini HDMI and a combined USB / AV out port are located behind a soft plastic flap. Nikon provides a USB cable in the box which can be used to charge the camera from a computer as well as for transferring photos and video.

If the 83x optical zoom of the Nikon Coolpix P900 is too much, and you'd like a more compact ultra-zoom bridge camera, then the Nikon Coolpix B700 could be for you. With a 60x optical zoom lens, a vari-angle 3inch screen, built-in electronic viewfinder, Wi-Fi, 4K video recording, and manual controls the camera has a lot to offer.

The COOLPIX B700 offers a choice of six AF area modes, plus manual focus. Face priority works well when people are within a few metres of the camera in good light. If there are no faces in the frame it defaults to the nine-area AF system which it uses to focus on the subject closest to the camera. Alternatively you can manually select the focus area from one of 99 positions using the multi-selector to move the frame around a 9×11 grid, or set a central focus point. There are three manual modes, spot, normal and Wide, but in reality this is a single mode with options for the AF area size. All the same the ability to change both the size and position of the AF area is a useful thing to be be able to do and in certain situations can greatly increase your chances of getting sharp snaps. Note: Be sure to copy the “firmware” folder to the root (top-most) directory of the memory card. The camera will not recognize the new firmware if it is placed in a folder under the root directory. Weighing 20 oz. (565g), the 5.0 x 3.4 x 4.2 in. (125.0 x 85.0 x 106.5 mm) Nikon B700 is not a small camera, but it features a sizable handgrip and relatively large-diameter lens that should make for a comfortable, secure grip. The top of the camera features a PASM mode dial, function button, shutter release, and zoom lever. The B700 also has a pop-up built-in flash and stereo mic on top. When using auto ISO, the flash has a range of up to 24 feet at the wide end of the lens and 13 feet at the 1440mm equivalent focal length. Naturally, while specification might make the Nikon Coolpix B700 look good on paper, it's the performance that counts. And here the SB700 is no slouch, thanks to a swift start up time that Nikon officially places at 1.3 seconds, with a 0.09 second auto focus response upon a half squeeze of its shutter release button, the Nikon deploying contrast detection AF. Stabilisation is a key factor with long zooms and the COOLPIX B700 is equipped with optical image stabilisation or Vibration Reduction as Nikon calls it. There are two options, Normal and Off as well as an Active mode that irons out excessive wobbling, examples of the kinds of conditions it might be useful in, according to the manual, are ‘when shooting from a car or under poor foothold conditions’. Active mode was introduced on the earlier COOLPIX P520 and when I tested it, in normal handheld operation I found little difference between the Active and Normal settings.

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Setup is easy enough, First you install the app on your Android or Apple device, then start the pairing process with the camera. If you have an NFC-equipped Android phone you simply hold the handset against the side of the camera for a couple of seconds before both devices display passcodes for you to confirm.