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Award: Recommended!

Review summary: Nikon has chosen today to announce its new Coolpix lineup, debuting at PMA in a couple of weeks. By far the most interesting new model is the P5000, a fully-featured 10 megapixel camera with stablized 3.5x zoom, 2.5-inch screen and very compact design ...

Pros: Very compact and pocketable, Excellent handling for a small camera, Solid build and excellent fit / finish, Good resolution and edge-to-edge consistency, Realistic natural color, subtle processing, Excellent range of manual exposure controls, ...

Cons: Very slow focus and slightly sluggish performance overall, Unimpressive burst mode, Default settings produce images that are a bit soft and a bit flat - may or may not be a problem depending on your point of view, Screen can be difficult to see in ...

Review summary: Don't let that unassuming stance fool you, there are some DSLR brains under that point-and-shoot facade...

Verdict: Don't let that unassuming stance fool you, there are some DSLR brains under that point-and-shoot facade. The Nikon P5000 rocks a powerful 10 megapixel imaging sensor and 3.5x optical zoom, but more importantly, it has the same image processing engine ...

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Review summary: The Nikon P5000 brings the creative controls of a D-SLR into the body of a compact camera. It isdesigned with a prominent grip for stable shooting, and features both an optical viewfinder and a large 2 , 5 inch LCD that offers an excellent display for ...

Review summary: We gave you our first impressions of the Nikon Coolpix P5000 from the PMA trade show floor in March 2007. A few months later, we've subjected the P5000 to our test routine and taken thousands of pictures and videos to see if it's all Nikon talks it up ...

Pros: Wide view on LCD ; Great handling features ; Large text in menus ; DSLR-like controls ; Lots of flash options

Cons: Clumsy face detection ; Audible operation noise ; Spotty flash coverage ; Slow burst mode ; Slow auto focus ; No RAW format

Verdict: The preproduction model we first looked at was riddled with silly issues like incomplete and errant menus and missing features. There were lots of problems that we hoped would disappear on the final production model - and only some of those hopes ...

Verdict: Nikon's Coolpix P5000 is another of Nikon's advanced cameras in the top segment of the digital compact camera market. It is still a popular category, because many professional photographers want to have an additional, small camera next to their DSLR, ...