Digital camera review: Bridge cameras in 2011/01 test - Stiftung Warentest Stiftung Warentest examined 9 Universal cameras from Casio, Fuji Film, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax and Samsung: Coolpix P100 offers 26-time Zoom, Full-HDV & HDR. If you would like to procure one, find digital cameras for sale right here.
More compact and powerful, the digital system camera with interchangeable lenses, getting smaller and patents but also the compact digital cameras with fixed zoom lenses: Stiftung Warentest nine compact universal cameras tested in the price range of between about 300 and 500 €, and a dozen EVIL-system cameras and Digital SLRs You can find the review of the colorful iconoclast in the January issue 2011, the consumer magazine "test" from 29 December 2010 at newsagents - four compact digital cameras were given the test quality rating of good, five were satisfactory.
Bridge cameras for sale can achieve the picture quality of camera system
Stiftung Warentest wanted to finally know the product testers checked the first time the image quality of compact digital cameras in direct comparison with digital SLR cameras and mirrors without EVIL-System cameras from the top tier (EVIL: Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens, digital cameras with electronic viewfinder and lens). Selected compact cameras like the Sony EX1 were tested by the test program the premier class, while the satisfactory rated king of the digital camera premier broke quite a tad from the crown - in this case, the two chosen Universal cameras in picture quality hold their own: Nevertheless, the two chosen compact Digital cameras are not winner.
Bridge Camera Nikon Coolpix P100 is the test winner in January 2011 test
As of October 2010, a test model of Nikon Coolpix landed quite far forward, the Nikon Coolpix L110 is now in the year 2011, the Coolpix P100 winner with test quality rating of good ("2.3"). The P100 has a 10 megapixel CMOS image sensor with backside illumination (BSI), a good 3-inch folding screen and an eagle eye as a zoom lens with electronic LCD viewfinder: The 26x super-zoom lens has a focal length between 26 millimeters for shooting wide angle and about 680 mm for super telephoto shots - one with a lens, thereby meeting all the usual zoom range. Still offers an Coolpix P100 stereo recording films in full-quality HDV 1080p (HDV: High Definition Video, 1280 x 720 pixels, 1080p: 1,920 x 1,080 pixels). As an additional photographic delights awaits the P100 with the HDR-mode (High Dynamic Range), the winner will cost 29 December 2010 at online trading 285-370 € without shipping.
The trio of other good digital cameras
Three more good universal cameras followed in the test in Test Scores range from "2.4" and "2.5": The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 offers as the winner good image quality, but lacking compared to the Coolpix P100 A standard electronic viewfinder; however, surpasses the Fujifilm FinePix HS10 the entire test area, it has the super-zoom lens with the largest zoom factor. The best image quality of all digital cameras can be found at the Samsung EX1, but have the Samsung model and the DMC-LX5 also on the lenses with the smallest zoom factor in the test - in addition the Samsung EX1 is the only digital camera model of the test field no video clips in HDV quality.
Five digital cameras were satisfactory
The test quality rating of satisfactory, five compact digital cameras in the Test Scores section "2.6" to "3.0" Universal was with these Universal cameras the image quality only satisfactory, all the cameras cut here in manual vision screening from only a sufficient test score, this led to the devaluation of all digital cameras in the final grade. In order of the camera manufacturer and the descending Test score were Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ45 Lumix DMC-FZ100 and, Casio Exilim EX-FH25, Pentax and Samsung X90 WB5500.
More information
The comparison test, "Universal against kings" on page 58 in the January 2011 edition of the consumer magazine "test". On the website of Stiftung Warentest, you can download for a fee reviews as a pdf document. In the "Product Finder Digital Cameras" will find there also currently the pool of all previously tested 824 camera models.
