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New one, from Nikon.
It's the CoolPix P90.
This is a pretty cool, little Camera.
It's almost, I wouldn't say it's a Hybrid, cause you can't change the Lenses on it.
But, it's kind of in between a Point and Shoot, and a DSLR.
It's got a little more size to it. It's got a much better Lens.
It's got a really interesting Zoom.
I'll tell you about the features on that, in a second,
But it's got a cool Form Factory, it's actually really light
for the size that it weighs, it's really easy to just carry, you know,
like on your fingers, hanging.
Very light. Really easy to carry.
Very stable, and takes really good Pictures.
If you're doing Sports Photography, or anything that's really fast,
it can take really quick pictures.
It's got a couple of cool features,
and it's got a really, really big Screen,
and that Screen moves around and does a lot of cool stuff.
So, let's talk about it. First of all,
this thing is a 12 Megapixel. OK.
So, it's 12 Megapixel, very high,
it's actually 12.1 Megapixels, but here's where it gets really crazy.
I'm gonna turn this on to show you.
This thing actually has a 24x Zoom, so watch this.
WOW!
Now, this doesn't seem like much, but 24x is a lot.
If this was a DSLR, the smallest size, the widest it goes is 24mm,
the highest that it would ever go is 624mm,
so that would be like a Lens that would be like
this big.
Alfred's not even paying attention, he can't even Zoom Out.
But it's bigger than the Camera's zoomed out right now.
So, it's quite impressive.
Check out that display on the back. Really, really nice display,
and it's a one point, it's a 3" LCD.
And what's really cool about it, is that you can pretty much
move it wherever you want. You can go Down, you can go Up.
And, so if you're Filming, let's say, over your head, you know,
you can look at it.
And, if you're Filming down low, you can just flip it this way, and do this.
So, very cool. It takes really great Photos,
it takes great Video, and by far, the best part, is the Lens.
So, let me give you a tour of this thing, real quick.
I'm gonna put it down, so you can kinda zoom in here.
Alright, lets go through the features, first of all, on the buttons.
Pretty much Zoom, to go Forward, and to go Wide.
There's a bunch of different Modes, starting off with Manual.
You have Manual Mode, right there.
This is Aperture, Priority, Shutter Priority, Program, this is fully Automatic.
This is a Sports Mode, right there. That's a cool one.
Let's see, can you zoom in anymore Alfred, or are you maxed out?
See the Sports Mode? See that little guy right there? There he is.
Pretty much, this is an interesting Mode. This is what it is.
It will actually take under, if it's set under 3 Megapixels,
it will take 15 Frames Per Second, for up to 45 Frames,
and that will make sure that you get every single chance to
get that Photo of a fast moving object. Really cool feature.
Another thing, you're gonna notice, is a couple Scene Modes,
where you can go through Macros and through Outdoors,
a lot of cool stuff like that. You have a Movie Mode,
if you wanna take some Movies, which I did take a few.
I'll play those at the end of the clip, so you can see what I just,
you know, around the office walking around, messing around with it.
And then you have more User Programmable Modes,
where you can set Custom Preset Modes.
Another thing that's really cool about this guy,
let's say, you're looking at the Screen, right,
but you wanna save some Battery, for what not.
You go there and it turns on the Electronic View Finder.
So, inside there, there's a little LCD Screen,
that let's you see everything, which is really cool, as well.
In case it's really bright, and you can't see, here,
you stick your eye, in there, and then you can see it no matter what
because its covered off by the brightness.
You can also change the Settings of the Display,
if you wanna take everything off the Screen, or set up Grid Lines, to line up your shot,
you can do that as well. You can make it completely blank,
or all the information, or you can put Grid Lines,
which is all really cool.
Another thing that's really interesting about this,
the design of this actual Camera, is that you have
4-Way VR Image Stabilization, so that means,
in the case the Camera's shaking, it's gonna actually take care of that for you.
One of the ways is that the actual Image Sensor thats in the back of this thing,
shakes with the Camera, so that your shots don't come out blurry.
Another thing is Motion Detection, if it's actually taking a picture of a subject,
and it know's that your Camera is moving to match that subject,
it's actually going to increase the Shutter Speed, its gonna make it faster,
it's also gonna increase the ISO, so it takes a faster picture,
and you don't get any blur. It'll go up to ISO 6400,
if you're under 3 Megapixels, or below.
So, that's really bright for low Light situations.
And it also has something called Nikon BSS, which is,
Best Shot Selector.
So it will take 10 Photos, and pick out the sharpest out of those 10.
That's another really cool little feature.
Alright, so lets talk about taking Pictures of your Friends now,
or of a person. When you're taking a general Portrait,
this Camera has a ton of features to help you take that.
Now, starting with the most basic one, that's annoyed people for years and years,
is getting Red Eye. When you have too much Red Eye, it's not good.
So this Camera actually has In-Camera Red Eye Reductions,
See, like right now, those Red Eyes, you look perfect, man, you're not Satanic, at all.
It came out really good. So, pretty much, what happens, is,
that it automatically, inside the Camera, it knows that if you're in Portrait Mode,
that you may have a subject that may get Red Eye,
and if it does see that Red Eye, its gonna remove it automatically.
Now on top of that, it has Face-Priority Auto Focus.
So if you're in a room with 12 people, Photographing them,
it's actually gonna take a look at each person, and its gonna detect their faces,
and focus, primarily, on those faces.
Beyond that, get this. It's also got Smile and Blink Detection,
so if it detects anyone blink during your Portrait,
it's actually gonna give you a warning, 'Hey, somebody blinked, take the Photo again'
It's also gonna give you a Smile Detection, so if somebody smiles,
it won't release the Shutter until the Smile actually occurs.
So, you got a little kid, he's not happy, he's got a, you know,
ugly face, you put it on him, you, you know, scale yourself up, you push the Camera,
and as soon as they smile, it takes the Picture.
Good job, Alfred. Thank you for helping with that.
So, excellent, excellent Camera.
Again, if you wanna get really close up to something, with 650 x Lens,
that means, 650 Millimeter Effective Lens. Very, very close up, it's gonna get you.
As a matter of fact,
look how close I get to the Lens.
Very cool stuff.
If you have any questions on it, e-mail me, and I'll see you guys next time.
For more information on the Nikon CoolPix P90,
type in NIKON P90 into the search engines
of any of these major retailers.
For computertv, I'm Albert.
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