Nikon Coolpix P90 Review

#1 Husac

I think Nikon it’s above the rivals…but i don’t know a thing about the new X70 Pentax…i think it will be a close battel.

10:28 pm - Friday, May 29, 2009

#2 alansky

Your conclusions make it sound like the Nikon P90 has several worthy rivals, but your “Main Rivals” page lists only the Olympus.

6:04 pm - Sunday, May 31, 2009

#3 Bill

I bought the Nikon P90 for the price, zoom capability and was upgrading (I thought) from the Canon G3 (4 megapixel).  What I discovered was the quality could not match my shots taken under the same conditions with my G3 4-megapixel camera! I tried to tweak all settings on the Nikon P90 to see if I could even equal the color saturation and most importantly, the 100% cropped image.  I felt an immediately let-down.  How can a 12.1 mega-pixel camera produce such lousy images compared to my 4-megapixel G3.  The Canon G3 has a faster lens f/2.0-3.0 compared to the NIkon P90´s f/2.8-5.0. It has to be the Canon lens and possibly the CCD sensor and image processing that does a better job.  Many new cameras use a CMOS sensor, which is faster and more responsive, but I am not sure if the quality suffers because of the type of sensor CCD vs. CMOS.

I sold the Nikon P90 and will look at the DSLRs of Canon.  For me it is worth the extra money to get something you really are happy with.  I appreciate my G3 even more now (and the file sizes are much smaller as well).

4:13 pm - Monday, June 1, 2009

#4 Anon

I bought my P90 a few months ago, and it was my first camera. I liked the design as it resembled that of a DSLR’s. What was a letdown as well, it didn’t produce good quality images. But I liked the easy-to-function use of the camera.
I would recommend it for beginners in photography.

5:56 am - Thursday, June 4, 2009

#5 Ujjyaini Mitra

Hey guys,

can anyone really help me to choose between coolpix p90, Canon PowerShot SX1, Canon PowerShot SX10 and Sony Cybershot DSC HX1 ? I am little confused which one will be good value of money as well as a nice photo producer?

11:09 am - Monday, June 8, 2009

#6 Jan

Buy the Canon, i have used both the Canon is far superior all round. Camera stores in our area have stopped stocking the P90 as they were getting a lot of comebacks withlow quality photos and there is a waiting list for the Canon.

3:07 pm - Friday, June 12, 2009

#7 Indranil Choudhury

Hi Ujjyaini, I think Coolpix P90 will give the better value of money. Though its a new one, but it already have quite all the features of other products you mentioned and above all.. the zoom and the pixel quality of the pictures are really good. I checked the photographs of this particular product and according to me.. it will give you nice pic with the right light contrast and with the natures neutrality. i think, to capture nature, this will be quite good among your chosen brands

1:36 pm - Friday, July 24, 2009

#8 Tony

Having clicked on and looked at some of the images on the previous pages I was very disappointed with the quality.  I have a Panasonic FZ-28 (very convenient camera) as well as a Nikon D300 and quite frankly the FZ-28 Leica lens takes much better shots even though it is a 10Mp camera.  Even at 18x zoom you can severly crop an image and it looks good, the P90 at 24x is very poor with fringing and poor image quality.
Nikon have missed a great opportunity, I really can’t understand why, with a name like Nikon they would damage their reputation by releasing a camera that didn’t at least match up to the competition in this class on image quality.

10:57 am - Sunday, August 23, 2009

#9 Eric

I have to echo Bill’s comment.  We thought we were upgrading from the 4MP Canon G3, and so far the pictures from the P90 have been awful.  A couple months of denial later, and now I have to figure out how to sell this thing.

And all because we wanted better movies than the G3 offered.

3:15 am - Monday, August 31, 2009

#10 Baabaaloo

I want to thank all of you who have posted here for helping me make my decision to NOT buy this camera.  While I like the zoom and macro qualities, I’m put off by it’s lack of hot shoe and wouldn’t mind a fixed lens cam if it took good pictures.  Photo quality, especially when cropped, is what I want in a “super zoom” near dSLR…

3:53 am - Wednesday, September 23, 2009

#11 HERONETA

i bougth the P-90 about may and I am very pleased with it and the pictures it takes. Don’t think they are no good. Besides it helps with my moving hands from time to time. I had a printed album out of them and the quality is really good.

8:51 pm - Tuesday, September 29, 2009

#12 Steven

I’m gonna buy this!

4:27 pm - Thursday, October 1, 2009

#13 Combat Wombat

I’ve trialled a P90 this weekend and while I’m not going to buy it (no RAW output) I’m puzzled by some of the comments above.

By saying that the camera produces poor images Bill and Anon are admitting that they are poor photographers. It is the only possible explanation. The sample images with this review show that the P90 is more than capable of producing good quality images. To dredge up an old adage, it’s a poor workman who blames his tools.

12:03 am - Tuesday, November 3, 2009