Other highlights of the affordable Kodak AZ521 include a 3 inch LCD screen, full 1080p HD movies, and a 16 megapixel CMOS sensor. A Super ED lens has advanced capabilities, including an extremely high ability to remove secondary spectra, offering superior chromatic aberration correction characteristics.

To the right of the mode dial you’ll find the on/off button and a programmable function button which used to be labelled Fn, but is now Fn1.

The LCD moved outwards from the back of the Nikon Coolpix B700 in a 180° arc and can, alternatively, be turned so that its screen is facing inwards to the body for an added degree of protection when transporting this Nikon. While the B500 has an articulated hinge at the bottom allowing you to flip it up and down, the COOLPIX B700’s screen has a hinge at the side with the screen mounted on a rotating pin. This makes it easy to change and find settings, however, the clarity could probably be improved if the menu sections were colour coded, rather than just being the same colour as each other.

If you're looking for a lot of optical zoom, in an ultra-zoom bridge camera, designed to "Do-it-all", then the Nikon Coolpix B700 does a good job of providing almost everything you could possibly want, including 4K video recording, a 60x optical zoom lens, a vari-angle 3inch screen, a built-in electronic viewfinder, built-in Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth, manual controls, raw shooting, and more. The arbitrary limit on the focal length is a bit of an imposition though and I reckon most bird photographers will be happier just to use program auto mode and set the set the drive mode to one of the continuous options. To change the focusing mode on your Nikon Coolpix B700, press the "Menu" button and navigate to the "Focus Mode" option. Programmed auto exposure with flexible program, shutter-priority auto, aperture-priority auto, manual, exposure bracketing, exposure compensation (–2.

Naturally, while specification might make the Nikon Coolpix B700 look good on paper, it's the performance that counts. On the top panel, the mode dial has positions for auto mode, the PASM modes, three dedicated scene mode positions (Night landscape, Night portrait and Landscape) a Scene position for the remaining scene modes (selected via the screen menu) Creative effects and finally a user defined mode.

The Canon SX530 also offers 16 megapixels, a 3-inch LCD screen, full manual controls and 1080p HD movies. million pixels total) incorporating Nikon Coolpix B700, an impressive 60x optical zoom bridge camera (extendable to 120x digitally), on to our PhotographyBlog test slab.In M mode with ISO set to 100, you can select shutter speeds as slow as 15s, although the limit is 1s otherwise. THIS DISCLAIMER CONSTITUTES AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS AGREEMENT AND NO USE OF THE MANUAL IS AUTHORIZED EXCEPT UNDER THIS DISCLAIMER. The Coolpix B700 offers various shooting modes, including manual, aperture priority, shutter priority, and fully automatic modes, allowing photographers to have full control over their images. The B500 has a shorter 40x optical zoom range, lacks a viewfinder, has no PASM exposure modes, no 4K video and is generally a simpler less sophisticated model than the B700.