Updated 15 Feb, 2012, 1:21 pm IST

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Nikon Coolpix P80

27 Feb, 2009, 6:22 pm IST | Nikhil Singh | Point and Shoot

In the past few weeks, we've taken a look at Canon's, Fujifilm's and Kodak's new additions to their individual series of superzooms. It's Nikon's turn to show off their goods this time, with the Nikon Coolpix P80.

With the following dimensions: 110 x 79 x 78 mm, the P80 is neither too small, nor too big - it's sized to fit your hand comfortably. The 405 gram weight of the camera is evenly distributed along the body, ensuring that it doesn't feel lopsided or uncomfortable to wield in one hand.

The body comprises of a hard plastic shell, with a textured rubber grip on the well contoured grip side of the camera. What I absolutely loved was the little additional triangular rubber grip that's placed on the upper-right corner of the facing side of the camera, that protrudes out to allow your right thumb to rest comfortably on it. All this factors into making the Nikon Coolpix P80 amazingly ergonomic.

The button placement is spot on too. The trigger's placed conveniently towards the front of the top side of the camera, with a pretty large plastic ring around it that allows you to zoom in and out with ease. The power button and dial for switching between modes, are placed behind it. The upper right hand corner of the camera is coated with a small piece of gray plastic that adds aesthetic appeal to the otherwise black frame, and has a small navigation dial placed conveniently on it. The four way navigation pad's placed below the dial, alongside the preview, menu and delete buttons. Besides these buttons, nests a 2.7 inch, 230,000 pixel screen.

By all that I've mentioned so far, you can easily deduce that the P80 boasts of solid build quality, and was designed with convenience and comfort in mind.

Tags: Nikon , Coolpix

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