Nikon Coolpix L120 Review

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Nikon Coolpix L120 Review The Nikon Coolpix L120
is a modest super zoom camera that is easy to
utilize. There isnt anything troublesome about
this camera by any means, change the zoom if it
intrigues you, and press the screen button. The
camera will accomplish practically everything and
you will not need to contemplate any exposure
settings whatsoever. You can choose a scene mode
or an alternate ISO setting assuming you need to,
however, theres nothing else to it. Source
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ew/ The Pros and Cons of the Nikon Coolpix L120
A Comprehensive Review Since the Coolpix L120 is
a programmed camera, it can now and then battle
in circumstances where the light is excessively
splendid and with scenes that have a great deal
of dynamic reach. All things considered, its
general quality is fair for transferring
photographs to social networking sites or
printing them at up to A4 size. It has
a 14-megapixel sensor and a 25mm wide-point focal
point with a 21x optical zoom, which brings about
a gigantic scope of 525mm. Key Features
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• 14.1 megapixel CCD picture sensor
• 21x optical long range focal point, f/3.1-5.8,
  25-525mm in 35mm same
• 3inch screen, 921k pixels
• HD film recording, 720p with optical zoom
• Progressed Face Priority AF with in-camera
  red-eye fix
• Self-adjust and sound system sound
• Amazing portrait framework Smile Timer, Skin
  relaxing
• Picture adjustment Image-sensor shift Vibration
  Reduction (VR)
• Pop-up flash (manual-button)
• 1cm Macro mode
• Side zoom control
• Design

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The body of the L120, however smaller, inclines
in the direction of advanced SLR size and is not
a pocketable mega-zoom. Itll fit awkwardly in a
huge coat pocket, however, essentially youll
have to convey it with the included necktie or in
an ample sack. Accessible in dark, bronze, and
red forms, its a great looking camera and the
bigger body makes it more straightforward to
consistent its 21x long range focal point. The
profound hand grasp has a finished elastic strip
on it, as well, helping hold your fingertips
back from slipping. Its made for the most of
plastic, yet it doesnt feel modest. Performance
and Features
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The camera has a 14.1 Megapixel CCD (Charged
Coupled Device) sensor with EXPEED C2 picture
handling. The critical component of the Nikon
L120 is its 21x optical long range focal point.
It functions admirably, particularly
insufficiently bright circumstances. If you have
any desire to catch birds in the wild and are
searching for a simple to use with incredible
zoom, this ought to be on your rundown. The
pictures created on greatest zoom look great,
particularly if you are utilizing a stand or any
type of help to keep the camera consistent. The
camera likewise gives you manual command over the
ISO which goes from 800 to 6400 as well as white
offset with six choices that incorporates present
manual, light, radiant, fluorescent, shady and
glimmer. Even though we would suggest that you
avoid the 3200 and 6400 ISO settings as they
produce truly boisterous pictures. Shooting
performance is impressively great and Nikon has
worked on shutter lag, which is an issue for
lower-end compacts. The camera fires up and takes
shots before long at only 1 second in great
lighting. Its shot-to-shot times are good, as
well, at 2.2 seconds without the glimmer and 2.5
seconds with. Other than the L120s Sport
Continuous mode, it can consistently take shots
at full goal up to 19 photographs at a pace of
0.8 casing each second, which is slow. Once
more, shutter lag how rapidly a camera catches
a picture after the shutter release button is
pressed is low at 0.4 seconds in brilliant
lighting and 0.7 seconds in faint circumstances.
Remember, however, that while these times are
great for this sort of camera, theyll in any
case be excessively sluggish if youre attempting
to have explicit chances of dynamic children or
pets. Youll need to depend on the Sports
Continuous mode for your absolute best at those,
yet that accompanies its arrangement of
issues. The L120 is the same as last years L110
model, however, they are not exactly
indistinguishable from one another. The Nikon
Coolpix L120 holds the genuinely huge and
agreeable hand-grasp of its ancestor, which
houses the four AA batteries expected to control
the camera, yet this time around it benefits from
a somewhat bigger finished rubberised region to
help to deal with.
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Similarly, as with the L110, the arrangement of 4
regularly accessible R6/AA-size batteries share
their home with the memory card and considering
that essentially nothing remains to be kept them
set up when the compartment entryway is open, you
should be cautious while evolving cards, in any
case, the batteries pour out onto the floor. Lens
The front of the L120 is overwhelmed by the
enormous focal point, in any event, when it sits
withdrew into its lodging, admirably its no
bigger than the L110s 15x optic. Upon power-up,
the focal point broadens, given you have not
neglected to eliminate the focal point cap ahead
of time. If you have, you wont just have to
eliminate it yet additionally to control the
camera now and again, except if you rapidly
eliminate it inside several seconds, whereupon
the focal point stretches out as should be
expected. The L120s focal point isnt
frightfully quick as far as its most extreme gap,
which is f/3.1 at wide point and f/5.8 at the fax
end. The central reach, then again, deserves
admiration, beginning at 4.5mm (comparable to
25mm) and going the entire way to 94.5mm
(identical to 525mm). The L120 sports an
incredible expansion as a side control switch on
the lens barrel. This permits you to zoom the
focal point in and out utilizing your left hand,
as well as the customary strategy for the zoom
switch. It doesnt seem like an incredible
arrangement in principle, however practically
speaking it ends up being an exceptionally
helpful element, particularly while working the
zoom during film recording.
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Video
The camera additionally allows you to shoot video
in a most extreme resolution of 720p. The
drawback anyway is that the greatest length of a
video must be 29min regardless of whether the
memory card can record longer. The Coolpix L120
gives you the choice to record in 540p or VGA
also. The video quality is fresh and is recorded
in MPEG 4 arrangement yet there is little
assistance as far as adjustment particularly when
the zoom is utilized. The video recording mode
provides you with a few choices to browse, for
example, self-adjust mode, Electronic VR, Wind
sound decrease and improved resolution. Battery
and Storage On the base is a locking entryway
covering the SD card opening and batteries. The
camera utilizes four AA-size batteries. You can
utilize basic, NiMH rechargeables, or lithium.
Nikon incorporates soluble batteries, which will
keep going for up to 330 shots utilizing lithium
batteries should keep going for almost 900 shots.
NiMH rechargeables
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are appraised for up to 520 shots. On the left
half of the body is a covered board with a little
DC input for a discretionary AC connector, a
Mini-HDMI port, and Micro-USB/AV port. As far as
capacity, the gadget upholds SD (Secure Digital)
cards and the quicker SDHC and SDXC cards also.
The gadget has an interior memory of 102MB as the
need might arise to store those couple of
additional shots. You could undoubtedly expect
around 300 shots from great quality antacid
batteries. Vibration Reduction Fortunately,
Nikon has included Vibration Reduction (VR) to
assist with forestalling camera-shake, a
fundamental component on a camera like this.
Similar to the case with numerous other Nikon
compacts, VR in the L120 is of the sensor-shift
assortment instead of the in-focal point variant
utilized in the producers SLR framework. Notwiths
tanding unadulterated mechanical vibration
decrease, you might pick a crossover type of
picture adjustment, in which case sensor-shift VR
is supplemented by an answer that includes making
two efforts in progression, which are then joined
in-camera for more noteworthy impact. Normally
this requires some investment, however, can yield
better outcomes in specific conditions. Controls
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There are moderately scarcely any outer controls
on the Nikon Coolpix L120. The top plate includes
a power button and the screen discharge,
encompassed by the zoom switch and that is all
there is to it. The flash is presently raised
using a little button to one side of the lodging,
however, its as yet one of only a handful of
exceptional things that the camera wont
accomplish for you consequently. Simply behind
the flash are a couple of mouthpieces intended to
record sound system sound while shooting motion
pictures. The design of the back controls is
practically equivalent to on the L110, with a
couple of minor contrasts. The film record
button, set apart by a red speck, has been made
bigger and moved to the highest point of the back
of the camera. This button implies you dont
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have to choose a devoted film shooting mode from
the menu, yet can begin recording at whatever
point you need. Sadly, it requires the Nikon L120
a few seconds to start recording a video cut
after youve pressed the film record button.
Theres currently a more ergonomic rubberised
region where your right thumb normally rests to
assist with helping your grasp on the
camera. The other backboard controls are
equivalent to the ones found on the L110,
including a Shooting Mode and a Playback button,
a standard four-way route cushion, in addition to
the key Menu and Delete buttons. The route
buttons give fast admittance to four frequently
utilized capacities, which fortunately
incorporate openness remuneration. The other
three are the self-timer, macro, and flash modes,
although as noted before, you need to physically
bring the glimmer up in request to have the
option to utilize the last option. A focused OK
button is utilized to affirm changes to settings.
You can change from Playback to Record mode just
by daintily tapping the shade discharge, so you
dont need to utilize the devoted Shooting Mode
button (even though you can if you need
to). Display
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The greater part of the L120s rear panel is
taken up by the three-inch LCD screen, whose
resolution has been expanded from 460,000 to an
incredible 921,000 specks. The L120s screen
holds an enemy of intelligent covering, which
makes it entirely usable for outlining your shots
even in direct daylight, significant uprightness
given that the L120 has no eye-level viewfinder
of any kind. Concerning picture audit, this is
the kind of thing you will in any case need to do
in the shade of your body as opposed to out in
the sun. Zoom One thing that separates the
Nikon Coolpix L120 from the opposition,
particularly at this sticker cost, is that you
can utilize the full degree of the optical zoom
while recording. Zooming is slower than in stills
mode, yet that is something to be thankful for
most videographers like to zoom gradually. A side
advantage of this is that the power zoom isnt
exactly gotten by the amplifier. Note anyway that
the picture is probably going to
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leave the centre when you zoom in or out, and the
L120s AF framework changes gradually. Frustratin
gly, as on the L110, you need to enter the
primary menu to get to the ISO awareness settings
theres no devoted button for that and you
must be in Auto mode to make that menu choice
accessible. Likewise note that you have zero
control over the other openness factors, for
example, shutter speed and aperture. This is
saved for the more costly models in Nikons
compact camera range. Modes Notwithstanding the
Auto and Easy Auto shooting modes the last
option of which utilizes the scene auto selector
component to sort out what the best settings are
in some random shooting circumstance the Nikon
Coolpix L120 offers up 17 client selectable scene
modes, including Landscape, Portrait, Night
picture, Party/Indoor, Snow, Beach, Dusk/first
light, Sunset, Night scene, Food, Close-up,
Museum, Black and White Copy, Fireworks show,
Backlighting, Pet Portrait, and Panorama Assist.
In these modes, you normally gain admittance to
the glimmer and self-timer modes as well as
openness pay, and with some, the large scale mode
too. The camera has a display help highlight as
well, which is additionally found among the scene
modes. It works like this you take the primary
picture in the wake of applying the glimmer mode,
self-clock, full scale and exposure compensation
settings as required, and afterwards, the camera
superimposes 33 of this photograph on the live
picture. This assists you with forming the
following shot with a fair measure of cross-over
for simple sewing on the PC. You can rehash this
progression until you have taken enough
photographs to cover the scene. The camera locks
the openness, white equilibrium and concentration
at the qualities set with the principal shot. The
photographs taken for the scene can be sewed on
the PC with the guide of the provided Panorama
Maker programming. The camera wont auto-line
them for you, so its a long way from the sweep
panorama modes that few adversaries currently
offer.
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One of the additional fascinating highlights of
the Nikon Coolpix L110 is the Sport Continuous
shooting mode. The most elevated selectable
resolution is confined to three megapixels, yet
you can take shots at a speed of up to 15 casings
each second for up to 20 edges in succession.
This can be useful with catching quick movement,
we observed that focus tracking doesnt work in
this mode, meaning your subject might leave focus
if its distance to the camera changes while it
moves. Various other persistent shooting choices
are accessible in Auto mode. At full resolution,
the camera can take up to 19 edges at a pace of
around 0.7fps. Furthermore, the L120 additionally
includes Nikons Best Shot Selector (BSS) and
Multi-shot 16 modes. The previous naturally picks
the keenest of up to 10 photographs taken in
progression with the shade discharge held down,
while the last option includes going after around
22fps and organizing them into a single
5-megapixel picture. Like the L110, the L120 has
a Smile mode wherein the camera chases after
grinning countenances and shoots a shot at
whatever point it recognizes one, without client
intercession. After the photograph is taken, both
face and grin identification continue, so the
camera can make more efforts of grinning
individuals. Do note if the glimmer is raised,
you cant make one more effort until it is
completely re-energized. The Nikon Coolpix L120
gives a restricted extent of altering capacities
in Playback mode. These incorporate D-lighting
and resizing. D-lighting lifts the shadows in an
image of a contrasty scene without influencing
the features make a beeline for the Image
Quality segment for a showing. On the L120, it is
a post-catch thing this camera doesnt offer
the Active D-lighting capacity of Nikons DSLRs.
The L120 still annoyingly needs both live and
post-catch histogram. This finishes up our
assessment of the ergonomics, dealing with and
including a set of the Nikon Coolpix L120. So
lets continue with the picture quality
evaluation. Picture Quality
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The Nikon Coolpix L120 produces pictures of
acceptable to great quality for a little sensor
superzoom camera. We have seen better picture
quality from cameras that cost altogether more,
however at the price tag it is being showcased
at, the L120 makes a praiseworthy work. The focal
point is sharp in the middle, and for the most
part tolerable along the edges. Pictures taken
at longer central lengths will generally be less
sharp than those caught in the wide to direct
telephoto range. Note that twisting revision is
applied to all pictures naturally, with no manual
abrogate accessibly. Chromatic distortions are
observable along contrasty edges, however, are
adequate for a 21x zoom. The sound decrease is
blundering, with the outcome being that none of
the photographs shows up genuinely loud, yet the
pictures need fine detail, particularly at the
higher responsiveness settings.
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Photographs were taken at ISO 800 in nonpartisan
light print OK at 1015cm/46", yet ISO 1600 is
best held for an on-screen show as it were. The
most noteworthy awareness settings of ISO 3200
and ISO 6400 which are just accessible at a
goal of 3 megapixels regardless can truly
possibly be delighted in whenever cut back to
640480 pixels or less, for example, Web
size. ISO and Noise Performance At ISO80 noise
is just observable in the most obscure regions,
like dark and dull greys, with the remainder of
the picture showing great detail and low noise
levels. At ISO100 commotion begins sneaking into
the more obscure tones. ISO200 shows expanded
degrees of noise, and while survey pictures at
100 per cent its feasible to see the multi-hued
commotion. As the ISO setting increments further
to ISO400, its feasible to see that the expanded
commotion levels are negatively affecting edge
detail. Its at ISO800 that commotion becomes
harmful to by and large picture quality, and
preferably you should utilize ISO400 or
underneath. At ISO1600 there is a lot more
grounded sound decrease diminishing fine detail,
yet peculiarly creating a picture that seems to
have less commotion than ISO800 you can see
that picture quality has been adversely impacted
because of dark dots. Handling The front hand
grasp is rubberised, with an extraordinary
surface encompassing it, this makes it extremely
simple to hang on solidly to the camera. Theres
likewise a rubberised thumb hold on the back that
functions admirably. Metal stand mount, and
metal tie circles give the impression of a strong
and well form camera, but the body of the camera
feels somewhat plastic and when you have a firm
two gave grasp on the camera it feels somewhat
creaky. The battery compartment is very much
planned with a lock so you cant coincidentally
open it, and the memory card and batteries are
not difficult to access and eliminate as needs
are. In extremely splendid daylight the screen
can be somewhat hard to see, and
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as this model doesnt include an electronic
viewfinder, it can make forming shots
troublesome. Menus There is no mode dial,
rather you press the scene/photograph button on
the rear of the camera, and afterwards, you can
switch between the five fundamental modes Easy
auto, Scenes (17), Sport continuous, Smart
picture, and Auto mode. Involving the Auto mode
gives you the most options in the menus of the
camera, notwithstanding, and still, after all,
the number of options available are very
restricted. The menus are intended for
convenience, as an ultra-zoom simple to use the
camera, as you can judge by the absence of manual
mode for this, you would have to change to the
Nikon Coolpix P500. Concerning controls, on top
at the front of the handhold is the shutter
release encompassed by a zoom ring the power
button is behind it and however its flush with
the body, it is not difficult to track down
without looking. Nikon puts an optional zoom
control on the focal point barrel, which can be
useful while shooting underneath your eyeliner or
when on a stand. Down the right half of the LCD
on the back are the excess controls. At the top,
crushed between the enormous thumb rest and the
screen, is a record button for films. (There is
no Movie mode you need to enter, however, it a
few seconds to begin recording whenever youve
squeezed the button.) Below that is a shooting
mode button marked Scene with a playback button
to one side a four-way control cushion with a
select button in its middle and afterwards Menu
and Delete buttons at the exceptionally base. The
control cushion is utilized for menu and picture
route as well as setting the 10-second self-clock
(there could be no different choices), changing
blaze and exposure compensation, and turning on a
large scale centre. With everything taken into
account, its a standard digital camera
design. White Balance
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• Auto white balance creates warm pictures under
  glowing/tungsten lighting, with the tungsten
  preset giving more impartial picture tones. Under
  fluorescent lighting, the auto white equilibrium
  produces magnificent outcomes, and utilizing one
  of the fluorescent presets does barely anything
  to work on the cameras presence. Generally
  utilizing auto white equilibrium produces
  incredible outcomes.
• Macro Performance
• The macro capacity of the focal point is
  incredibly noteworthy with the best focal point
  position set apart on screen, it makes it
  extremely simple to set the camera to the best
  setting to accomplish the nearest focusing
  distance. The main potential issue is that manual
  focus isnt accessible, and focusing can be
  somewhat precarious as the in-centre region turns
  out to be exceptionally restricted.
• Colour Performance
• Colour performance is generally excellent,
  however again its reliant upon utilizing ISO 200
  or lower. At those awarenesses, colours show up
  splendid and dynamic. Exposure is great, yet as
  expected with reduced cameras, features will
  infrequently victory.
• Pros of Nikon Coolpix L120
• Fast autofocus
• Excellent macro performance
• Built-in vibration reduction
• Sensor-shift Image Stabilization
• Great 3inch screen
• Long Battery Life
• Face Detection Focusing

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• No Built-in Viewfinder
• No Wireless Connection
• FAQs
• Is Nikon Coolpix L120 a DSLR?
• Nikon Coolpix L120 is a post-catch thing this
  camera doesnt offer the Active D-lighting
  capacity of Nikons DSLRs. The L120 still
  annoyingly needs both live and post-catch
  histogram.
• What type of camera is Nikon Coolpix L120?
• The Nikon Coolpix L120 is a compact camera that
  offers a 21x long-range lens beginning at a wide
  25mm, records 720p HD recordings, 920K dot 3.0"
  LCD and is controlled by AA batteries. You can
  find the camera in red, bronze and dark colours.
  Also, it incorporates a Sport ceaseless mode to
  catch quick articles and one-contact HD recording
  to rapidly flip among stills and recordings.
• Can Nikon L120 change lenses?
• As your L120 has its inherent focal point, you
  can utilize converter lenses. The entirety of the
  focusing etc is as yet given by your cameras
  non-removable lens.
• How long does the Nikon Coolpix battery last?

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Software is accessible free of charge on Windows
10 and macOS. It permits you to interface your
Nikon camera to a PC through USB and use it as a
webcam. How old is Nikon L120? The Nikon
Coolpix L120 has been released in February
2011. How many megapixels is good for a
camera? A fair 6-megapixel camera is adequate
for most ordinary camera utilization. Go for
higher megapixels if you wish to involve your
pictures for enormous hoardings or canvas sized
prints. Final Words on Nikon Coolpix L120
Review If you are searching for a simple camera
with a magnificent zoom then the Nikon Coolpix
L120 ought to be on your list. The gadget has a
few issues like manually bringing the flash even
up in auto mode, no viewfinder and no manual
concentration, yet the picture quality and
cluster of modes should keep you blissful. The
720p video recording functions admirably as well.
The form of the camera is extraordinary.