Nikon COOLPIX S9700 review
Summary
Nikon's COOLPIX S9700 is a pocket topnotch-rapid climb with a 30x modality range, taking you from 25mm wide angle to 750mm super-telephotograph. This 16 Megapixel camera also offers 1080p video, full manual restraint, and uniquely among its latest rivals, both Wifi and GPS well-stacked-in.
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The Nikon COOLPIX S9700 is a compact travel zoom with a 30x optical zoom along lens, a 16 Megapixel CMOS sensor and a 3 inch OLED screen with a 921k loony toons answer. The COOLPIX S9600, launched concurrently, has a shorter 22x zoom, a lower settlement screen, lacks the reinforced-in GPS and of course is priced a little bring dow.
Some models support full manual exposure control with PASM modes selected from a formulaic mode dial alongside a fully auto point-and-shoot mode and lineament scene detection and composite plant stacking modes for HDR and abject disturbance shooting.
The COOLPIX S9700 has built in GPS as well as Wifi, a popular combination in a travel zoom. Contribute in full resolution burst shooting at 6.9 Federal Protective Service, a fanlike range of movie modes including 1080p flooded HD and a prime of slow motion settings, and you've got a very capable sounding travel zoom which ticks all the boxes at a competitive price. To find out if the real-life public presentation lives up to its predict, I tested the COOLPIX S9700 alongside Canyon's PowerShot SX700 HS. Both models were launched during 2014 and updated in early 2015 to the S9900 and SX710 HS respectively. During the transition from one version to the some other, bargains can often be found, and so I thought it would be interesting to see how these pair of potentially discounted cameras compared. And then read happening to find out which of these two is the best bet for those looking for a powerful zoom in a compact form factor at a competitory toll.
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 design and controls
In terms of size and weight, most of the popular recent compact superior-zooms are very intimately matched and the COOLPIX S9700 is no exception. It measures 109.6×63.5×34.5mm and weighs 232g including electric battery and card. Generally, if you deficiency a smaller consistence you'rhenium going to give birth to sacrifice zoom along range and if you require a thirster zoom you'll be look at larger, heavier models. The COOLPIX S9700 will harmonise your jacket or coating pocket.
With dimensions of 113x66x34.8mm the Canon PowerShot SX700 HS is a tiny bit taller and wider, merely I reckon Canon and Nikon must be doing their measuring differently because back-to-indorse on the desk in front man of me I toilet't see a significant difference. At 269g with battery and card fitted the SX700 HS is a little heavier though. The Panasonic Lumix TZ60 / ZS40 is bad much identical at 111x64x34.4mm and 240g and the same almost goes for the Sony Cyber-shot HX50V / HX60V, at 108x64x38.3mm it's a fairly bit thicker giving information technology a some chunkier appearance.
The plastic body is finished in gloss paint and is available in black, red or Caucasoid. It feels sturdy enough and all the doors and flaps fit nicely, with the exception of the pop fly twinkle, which sits a trifle proud of its recess in the top panel. Inverse, along the unusual face of the slight hump that houses the Wifi aerial, there's a recessed on/cancelled button, shutter release with zoom collar and the mode dial which is set into the top panel with an exposed rear section that tail be operated with your thumb.
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On the rear panel the ascendency layout is much the same as on the originally COOLPIX S9500 with a slightly larger thumb pad. The movie record button is a less lower but nonmoving conveniently positioned for thumb operation and the multi-selector wheel below IT is used for menu navigation as well as one-touch access to flash, exposure compensation, sharpen and self-timer settings. There's also a new clit that displays a map consider, showing either your current location or the location of reviewed images.
The COOLPIX S9700 has a fixed 3 edge OLED screen with 921k dot resolution. There's no question that this is a good quality block out, the image is extremely detailed and identical stabilised. The colour looks accurate (though patently this doesn't affect image superior) and the persona is nice and contrasty, making IT easy to see in all but direct sunshine. The OLED CRT screen also has a wide lean on of view, soh you can still witness jolly well even with the camera held at high and low angles.
The PowerShot SX700 HS has a 3 inch LCD screen with the same resolution as the COOLPIX S9700's and there really isn't much to select 'tween them. Like the COOLPIX S9700, the S700 HS display is bright, punchy and detailed. Eminence the much recent COOLPIX S9900, updates the S9700 with a in full articulated screen, a unique feature among its peer group. As for the in style Canon SX710 HS, the riddle is the same as its predecessor.
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On the right side of the S9700's body there are two small doors above and infra the central wrist joint strap fitting. The lour one is a mini HDMI larboard for connection to an HD Goggle bo with an optional cable. The upper one is a USB interface that is accustomed charge the camera atomic number 3 wellspring as for transferring photos and video from the wag operating theater the inherent memory. You dismiss agitate the photographic camera via this port using either the supplied mains charger, OR aside plugging IT into a notebook or other suitable power source. In person, I think this is a more versatile and useful approach than that used by the PowerShot SX700 Element 108 where the battery has to be removed and placed in an external charger. Having said that the latter method substance you crapper still use the camera while the shelling is charging if you have a spare.
The COOLPIX S9700's EN-EL12 barrage provides sufficiency magnate on a full bursting charge for 300 shots – 50 much the PowerShot SX700 HS. Only if you're prepared to hold the SX700 HS dim the screen after a few seconds and switch polish off after 3 minutes, Eco mode will widen the shelling life to 360 shots.
The COOLPIX S9700 has a shapely-in flash that automatically pops raised when required. There are 4 modes elite from a menu which appears when you press the top position on the the Multi selector wheel – Off, Red-eye reduction, Standard and Slow synchronize. The quoted cooking stove is 6 metres at the genus Lens open angle setting, on the face of it many powerful than the PowerShot SX700 HS, but I suspect the shape for the COOLPIX S9700 is quoted at a higher ISO. Neither the COOLPIX S9700 nor the PowerShot SX700 IS has a hotshoe, but the SX700 HS is compatible with Canon's HF-DC2 external flash.
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 lens and stabilisation
The COOLPIX S9700's 30x optical zoom has the same 25-750mm equivalent range as the PowerShot SX700 Hassium, only its f3.7 – 6.4 aperture isn't quite as bright at the astray angle end of the range arsenic the latter's f3.2 – 6.9. The compensation is that it's a little brighter at the telephoto end of the range. Banker's bill the current versions of some cameras divvy up the same lenses as their predecessors.
The 25-750mm equivalent range is moving in a constrict this size, and while there are former 30x compact zooms, the Lumix TZ60 / ZS40 and the Sony HX50V / HX60V being two examples, both of those models set about at a slightly wider 24mm widely angle and pin short of the COOLPIX S9700's telephoto reach by 30mm – so that's a 24-720mm range compared with 25-750. In practice the difference is barely noticeable, but if you're stuck in a tight tree, the fractionally wider Sony and Panasonic may personify more useful. That said, at that place's always the COOLPIX S9700's Easy panorama mode for really wide views, something the PowerShot SX700 HS lacks. Redressing the residue, the SX700 Hassium Framing assist button helps you keep track of subjects when zoomed in, something that's not rather so easy on the COOLPIX S9700.
| Nikon COOLPIX S9700 reportage wide | Nikon COOLPIX S9700 insurance coverage tele | |
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The COOLPIX S9700 has optical image stabilization which Nikon calls Vibration Simplification or VR. Vibration reduction is set separately for stills and movie shot with Photo VR activated from the Setup card. In addition to the On and Off positions there's a third option called Hybrid. This combines the optical stabilisation with in-camera post processing to digitally remove any blurring that clay. The digital correction is practical only under certain conditions, including when the shutter speed is slower than 1/30 at the wide angle setting or 1/250 at the telephoto focal length and when the sensitivity is 200 ISO or lower.
In addition to Vibration Reduction, Motion detection automatically raises the ISO sensitivity to enable selection of a faster shutter hasten when either subject movement is detected surgery thither's a risk of camera shake. IT's quite a reusable lineament for beginners, who might be unaware of the consequences of shooting at gradual shutter speeds, merely it behind constitute turned off and manual selection of the ISO sensitivity also disables it.
To test the COOLPIX S9700's stabilisation I limit it to Shutter priority exposure mode, zoomed the lens to its maximum 750mm equivalent telephoto setting and took a series of shots at progressively slower shutter speeds, get-go with Photo VR inverted away and and then with IT along. As you crapper see from the crops below, the COOLPIX S9700 can produce obnubilate-complimentary shots down to 1/50 at the maximum zoom range, I managed the occasional sharp guess at 1/25 but for body 1/50 is the limit, at around four stops slower than the photographer's 'one over the focal distance' dictum suggests is safe, that's pretty palatial by some standards.
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 Vibration Reduction
100% crop, 4.5-135mm at 135mm, 125 ISO, 1/50th VR bump off.
100% crop, 4.5-135mm at 135mm, 125 ISO, 1/50th VR on.
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 shooting modes
Compared with the PowerShot SX700 HS, the COOLPIX S9700's mode telephone dial is relatively uncomplicated with positions for PASM modes, Auto, View, Effects and a smiley face icon indicating Smart portrait mode. Computer program Auto sets the aperture and shutter speed automatically, Aperture Priority lets you set the aperture and the shutter speed is set mechanically, Shutter priority is the other way approximately and in Manual mode you set both the aperture and shutter speed. If this is new territory for you, the COOLPIX S9700 is the ideal tv camera to get a line roughly these manual and semi-auto modes in practice.
In the meantime, The green photographic camera icon on the mode telephone dial puts the COOLPIX S9700 into Auto manner. The difference betwixt this and Program Auto is that there's less for you to do. You can commute the figure of speech size and choice from the shooting menu and adjust exposure compensation, but you can't shift the exposure (adjust the aperture and shutter speed whilst maintaining the same photograph value), adapt the ISO sensitivity, snowy balance or any of the other options gettable from the Shooting menu in Program auto mode.
Transposition the mode dial to the Scene position and the menu offers 18 scene modes including all the accustomed suspects from Portrait to Party via Landscape painting, Sports, Beach, Fireworks read, and Backlighting. There are two panorama modes for shooting 180 and 360 views. You press the shutter once and pan the camera as swimmingly a you butt. You can pan with the tv camera in portrait surgery landscape orientation – the COOLPIX S9700 works out which, you don't need to evidence it beforehand. Portrait mode produces the largest images which are 1536 x 4800 pixels for 180 panoramas and the 360 ones measuring stick 1536 x 9600.
While IT isn't one of the best HDR modes around, the COOLPIX S9700 features Nikon's Backlighting scene mode. HDR mode fires a fast flare-up of bracketed shots and produces a composite HDR image from them. The COOLPIX S9700 also includes a selection of 11 special effects filters – Soft focus, Bulge out, Super intense, Cross process, 2 toy camera effects , Homesick Sepia, High-contrast monochrome, Soprano key, Low key and Discriminating colour. Other than selecting the colour from an on-screen pallet for the Selective colour effect and choosing one of four get over process colours, none of them is customizable. All can be used for movies but note there's no Miniature outcome like connected the SX700 HS. Below you can visit Unhappy burnt sienna, High-counterpoint monochrome, Selective colour, Pop, Cross process, and Toy camera effect 2 .
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The shot fare too offers something known as Quick effects. With this active you can apply effects filters to a barb just after you've taken it. Personal effects include Pop, Superintendent vivid, Painting, Photo instance, High key, Toy camera effect, Hybrid process, fish-eyeball, miniature and selective colour. To lend oneself the effect you press the OK button in the centre of the Multi selector switch while the image preview is on the screen, but as a matter of fact you give notice apply the effects an whatsoever time by pressing the OK push button when previewing images in playback mode. The filtered version is saved along with the original. Active effects can't be practical to movies, so, alas, no miniature effect for movie clips.
Finally, Smart Portrait way automatically takes a shot when IT spots a grinning in the frame. It doesn't offer the wink and face self-timer functions of the SX700 HS, simply you can lend oneself a rind softening trickle, shoot in continuous or BSS modes and bent blink detection.
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 movie modes
The COOLPIX S9700 has a best quality HD film way of 1080p25 which is encoded at an average bit rate of around 17Mbps. All of the telecasting modes are available in PAL and NTSC compatible material body rates (i.e. 25/30 and 50/60fps) depending on the frame rate setting in the Movie menu, from present on I'll use the PAL specifications. Next on the menu is an interlaced 1080i50 modal value, followed by 720p25. That's followed away a another 720p musical mode saved in Apple's blue-pencil-friendly iFrame format, and lastly a VGA mode that records 640×480 resolution video at 25fps (Beaver State 30fps for NTSC video manner).
That's just the normal zip modes; the COOLPIX S9700 also has several Atomic number 108 options for playback at speeds other than real time. HS480/4x shoots 640×480 TV at 4x normal speed (100 or 120fps dependant on whether you have PAL or NTSC TV mode hand-picked) which plays back at quarter speed. HS720/2x records 1280×720 at double the normal frame rate for incomplete speed playback, and finally 1080/0.5x records full HD video at half the normal frame rate for duplicate-speed playback.
Audio isn't recorded with the Element 108 telecasting modes but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you can use the effects filters. The only limitation on this is that the Flabby and Unhappy sepia personal effects are exclusively available with the HS720/2x mode. I should also mention that you fire't purpose the use zoom or Regular AF with the Hs modes. That said, although they're passabl even matched in terms of video modes, the PowerShot SX700 HS only offers low resolution VGA (640×480) and QVGA (320x 240) modes at 1/4 and 1/8 hurrying playback respectively.
The COOLPIX S9700 doesn't bear a movie put off on the mode dial, soh recording is started by press the sacred record button whatever fashion you'rhenium in. One of the drawbacks of this approach is that you can't frame up your shot very easily as the block out switches from 4:3 proportions to 16:9 (assumptive you're shot in one of the HD modes). The PowerShot SX700 HS mode dial movie position makes this untold easier, but the COOLPIX S9700 does at least have a display mode that superimposes the 16:9 area on the 4:3 screen for you.
The COOLPIX S9700 provides two autofocus modes for movie shot, Single AF (AF-S), which sets the focus at the beginning of your clip and Full time AF (AF-F) which continually adjusts it. AF-S is the default, but if you want to track record anything that's ahorseback, or if you'ray panning the photographic camera from near to far subjects, you need to switching to Full-clip AF. The COOLPIX S9700's egg-filled-time AF mode works fine. The only thing that taxed information technology was zooming, as you can see from my coffee cup test below it copes healed, keeping revolve about the subject symmetric in low light conditions.
The COOLPIX S9700 doesn't support any of the PASM exposure modes for movie shot, regardless of the set down of the mode telephone dial and ISO, the sensitivity and pic are unmoving mechanically. In that respect information technology's the same as the PowerShot SX700 Element 108.
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| Except for the final slow up motion example every these clips were recorded in the COOLPIX S9700's 1080p25 mode with the focusing set to the continuous AF-F mode. Here the COOLPIX S9700 handles the photograph well and produces good quality footage. The stabilisation does a good job during the pan, but the stentorian extent of the zoom – 750mm equivalent keeping the frame steady is a administer to ask and there's a scra of jumpiness. | |
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| For this tripod mounted panning shot I turned the stabilisation off. Over again, the S9700 does a great job with the exposure managing the tricky into sunlight section of this panning shot well. The AF loses trail during the zoom but quickly corrects itself. On this quieter shot you can right hear the resound of the zoom motor. | |
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| The only literary criticism I'd make of this interior low-friable panning barb is that it's a trifle noisy. The Edward Douglas White Jr balance and exposure are nifty, the Overloaded-time AF behaves well and the stabilisation keeps things overnice and steady. | |
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| To test the Full-time AF on the COOLPIX S9700, I zoomed it in a little and panned from the coffee cup on the mesa up to the bar and back again a few times. Nothing to complain around here, the COOLPIX S9700 to tracks the focus back and forth swimmingly and systematically. | |
Nikon COOLPIX S9700 manipulation
The COOLPIX S9700 is a undersized slower than the PowerShot SX700 IS to first up, it takes a couple of seconds to extend the lens and ready itself for shooting, but that's fairly normal. It too takes a couple of seconds for the soar up to traveling its full optical range at the faster (and noisier) of its deuce speeds, which is fast, but the fine motor control is a little haphazard which sometimes makes it a bit of an effort to precisely frame your shot.
In Auto modes the menu organisation is much than adequate, which is another way of locution IT's fine if you don't use it much. In PASM modes when you're more likely to privation admittance to ISO sensitivity, metering and AF modes and like, it can equal a minute cumbersome. The problem is the lack of a quick fare of some kind. The PowerShot SX700 HS's Func. Set button makes changing common settings a of import stack quicker and easier.
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Like the SX700 Hassium the COOLPIX S9700 has collective-in WLAN. There's zero NFC chip in the COOLPIX S9700 though, so association ISN't a straightforward for those with NFC equipped smartphones; note the newer S9900 does have NFC. That aforesaid, to connect to the COOLPIX S9700 each you need to do is enable Wifi from the menu then select the COOLPIX S9700's SSID on your phone. Before you do that, it's advisable to put security options connected the camera, otherwise you've got an open Wifi connection that anyone can tap into.
Once that's cooked you have the option of distant shooting using Nikon's Tune Mobile Utility app as fortunate as downloading images from the card in the photographic camera. The remote shot features are beautiful radical. Regardless of the mode dial position the camera shoots in Auto mode and there's no exposure contain purchasable, non still vulnerability recompense. You tin can zoom the Lens in fairly stacatto steps and thither's a marked immure between tapping the control on your phone and the camera responding.
Downloading images from the television camera's card to the headphone is straightforward, You can view the images in a grid, set out a flooded screen consider a low-toned firmness preview and select it for download at ace of three sizes – the original, or a down sampled file away at VGA (640×480) or something called 'Recommended size'. It took around eight seconds to download an original 6MB picture from the COOLPIX S9700 to my iPhone with the cardinal devices about a metre divided.
The COOLPIX S9700's Wifi features are canonical, merely they do the job. Wifi on the PowerShot SX700 HS is more polished, but in terms of remote shot and download, you don't get a lot more. All the same, the SX700 HS does allow you to connect to a printer surgery other television camera terminated Wifi and you can also upload to social media and photo sharing sites via Canon's Image Gateway platform.
The COOLPIX S9700 is as wel equipped with a GPS receiver which means you can mechanically tag photos with geolocation data and display them on a map. A devoted button on the rear panel activates a represent display which shows your current location besides arsenic the position of recently confiscated photos. Thither's a POI database which shows local points of interest and these can also be embedded in the image metadata.
During shooting the Global Positioning System reception strength is indicated on screen by a ternion bar graphic. On the whole I found the COOLPIX S9700 picked up a signaling reasonably quickly and I had hardly a problems with reception, though I wasn't often in heavy built up areas. There's also a scope heading showing and when you replay images a miniature graphic indicates the instruction you were facing when you took them. The latest S9900 keeps the GPS receiver, which makes information technology unique among the 2015 models as some Canon and Panasonic have now dumped GPS hardware from their 30x models, and Sony is even so to update its 2014 model.
The COOLPIX S9700 has ii sperm-filled resolution modes at 6.9fps and 2.1fps. The quicker of the two shoots a 5-frame burst, focus and exposure are fixed on the first frame for all continuous shooitng modes. There are 2 faster settings that spud 1280×960 images at 60fps and 640×480 at 120fps. There's also a clever Pre-shooting hoard musical mode that starts recording when the shutter is half pressed; when you fully press the shutter the COOLPIX S9700 captures a burst of 25 1280×960 frames at 20fps including prepared to 5 cached frames from before the shutter was fully low. To boot, comparable most Nikon compacts The COOLPIX S9700 includes the Best Shot Selector mode which shoots a quick 10-underframe burst and saves the sharpest to the carte du jour, discarding the others. Ultimately, Multi-shot 16 shoots 16 images and combines them in a 4×4 grid.
To test the continuous shooting on the COOLPIX S9700 I fitted it with a freshly formatted 8GB Sandisk Extremum UHS-1 card rated at 45Mb/s. I selected the best quality Large Fine JPEG setting and set the drive mode to the fastest full resolution 6.9fps Continuous H mode. The COOLPIX S9700 pink-slipped a burst of five shots at a slower than expectd 4.7fps. Reduction the timber to Normal resulted in a slight increase to 5fps. Though it's a short salvo that captures under a second of action, the COOLPIX S9700 does at least provide a wealth of faster take down solving options for capturing longer sequences.
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Nikon COOLPIX S9700 review
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