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?

Eric V

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.

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).

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.

No camera gear for me this Christmas (last year my wife bought me a great Lowepro bag and an SB-600 flash, so I can’t complain!), but I did get s new set of Shure in-ear monitors to replace the old ones I ran through the wash. Very little techie otherwise, which is just fine by me. I tend to buy that stuff myself!

GPS is the best thing I see going for the P6000 — generally, I haven’t been too impressed with Nikon’s point-and-shoot models compared to Canon’s and, lately, Panasonic’s. In the end, it’s the picture quality that counts, so I’m interested to see what you get out of it.

It’s a shame that so few point-and-shoots come with good wide-aperture lenses, opting instead for wider zoom ranges and image stabilization, which is good but not as broadly useful. Canon’s G series used to have f/2.0 optics, but not anymore, and the P6000 follows the trend with f/2.7 at the maximum end. Panasonic’s LX3 has f/2.0, but no optical viewfinder and not the nice grippy metal construction of the P6000 and Canon G10.

I guess that’s why I haven’t owned a point-and-shoot for a couple of years. In a pinch I can use my wife’s Canon or my daughter’s Pentax, or (more often) the crappy but always available camera in my phone.