Comments on: What did Santa bring you?

By: John

John — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:00:48 +0000

I haven’t noticed any difference with RAW formats…I use Aperture and it has handled it fine…it was only an issue for about a week after it was launched while software companies had to update their RAW converters. Pretty much a non-issue as far as I’m concerned…it’s a great camera.

By: Jorge Quinteros

Jorge Quinteros — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:08:10 +0000

Hi John – I’ve seriously been considering adding a Point & Shoot camera for the same reasons you described yourself. I don’t always feel like lugging around my D90 and after reading so many mixed reviews about the P6000, what is your take on the different RAW format it uses.

I read Nikon switched from using NIF format to NRW. Do you see a real difference in size of file and/or when it comes to working with it in Lightroom if that’s what you use as post-production?

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:49:10 +0000

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By: Janine Pizzuto

Janine Pizzuto — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:32:24 +0000

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By: John

John — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:45:51 +0000

I love my P6000…the only complaint is the battery life but it’s not as bad as some are making and to solve it I simply bought a second battery. The fisheye shots were taken with a D90 + a 10.5mm fisheye lens or a lens adapter on my iPhone or Zi6.

By: Eric Valiaho

Eric Valiaho — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:23:07 +0000

Hi there, I came across your site while reseaching Nikon p6000. Am on the fence about it. How have you found it? Also those fisheye photos, where they taken with the p6000?

Eric V

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By: Tony Chung

Tony Chung — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:48:25 +0000

It’s nice to see that Korg still makes innovative products. I can recall when they introduced Pandora years ago: multitrack recorder with FX, line ins, built-in mic, and drum machine. Man I still want one.

Sadly, no boxing day specials for me. I almost bought a $3K Taylor guitar, but it didn’t command me to buy it. I resisted the last one that did and have regretted it ever since.

By: Stacie

Stacie — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:30:02 +0000

Wife here; you forgot to mention the dark chocolate covered pretzels I bought you at YVR on Christmas day!

I always shop for clothes after Christmas (John would say I ALWAYS shop for clothes). I got some really great deals at Cotton Ginny (where they give you 5% off your purchase for using your own bag) and the Bay of all places. I just had John drop me off at the entrance to Coquitlam Centre and I spent at least an hour at the Bay trying on clothes. There was 50% off almost everything.

And of course I got a deal on the matching earrings and necklace to the pink sapphire and diamond white gold ring that my Mom bought me for my birthday in October (from Michael Hill).

By: John

John — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:42:59 +0000

Derek: Sure…I’d be happy to do a review for IHR.

I do like the P6000′s wide angle lens quite a lot. I also like that it has a proper hotshoe that lets me use one of my Nikon speedlights with it. The SB-400 works great with it…anything bigger (like a SB-600) would be just silly since it would be twice as big as the camera.

I do wish it was better than f/2.7 but it works pretty well in most situations I’ve tried so far. The optical viewfinder is nice but not really an essential for me especially since it’s offset like all rangefinders are.

It is definitely solidly built. It also has some cool time lapse features (stills and video at a bunch of intervals) which I should have added to the reasons for purchase in addition to some nicer video modes that most point and shoots don’t have like a working, slow smooth zoom while shooting video and a b/w mode. It also has a manual focus mode and an amazing macro mode (2cm focus distance!)

I actually took all my DSLR gear and the P6000 with me to the inlaws for Christmas and barely used the DSLR. The P6000 was just easier to grab and shoot with when the kids were playing or whatever.