Having been on the market for less than five years, this camera was a welcome upgrade to the 元30. I'd watch for the price to come down on this one.The Nikon Coolpix 元40 is an entry level camera designed for beginners. The Fujifilm X100S at least offers a great viewfinder and unique manual-shooting experience that makes it stand out for the not-insubstantial price difference. While the Nikon Coolpix A delivers excellent images and is a fine camera, unless you're a real pixel-peeper I'm not sure it's sufficiently better to merit a $400 premium over the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 for a lot of folks. As with its compeitors, there's a bayonet mount for add-ons, though it looks like the only currently available lens accessory is a lens hood. There are no live special effects, only post-processing effects, no panorama (not even a panorama assist), and no built-in neutral density filter. While it offers bracketing up to two stops in 1/3-stop increments, it's only for three shots. It does have an intervalometer, a Nikon-standard feature that few other manufacturers ever include (off the top of my head, only Pentax does). The camera's feature set ranks as sufficient, but not outstanding. (burst available only with focus and exposure fixed at first frame) (35mm-equivalent focal-length multiplier) I like the placement of the three-position switch for selecting focus modes, but find it requires concentration to get to the middle position (macro) without sliding past. You select focus modes via a switch on the side. For some inexplicable reason, Nikon defaults the Coolpix A's JPEG settings to Normal (1:8) compression instead of Fine (1:4) there doesn't seem to be any performance differential between the two settings for both individual stills and burst, so I'm reporting the results for Fine (which is the setting you should be using anyway, if you're shooting JPEG). The camera's performance ranks as typical for this class of camera - that means a mixture of adequate and annoying. While video looks fine for short vacation-type clips, there are lots of edge artifacts and more clipping than I like in the shadows and highlights, plus, of course, there's a need for some form of external stabilization as there's none in-camera. The Neutral setting has lower contrast and saturation, but doesn't look flat the way you'll frequently see with neutral presets. The Standard Picture Control boosts saturation, but not enough to shift the hues, though the higher contrast does clip the shadows a bit. Colors render accurately, and the default color settings are very good. Exposures are consistent with no surprises.

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