{"id":203,"date":"2011-02-10T03:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine3.com\/techblog\/demo\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-02-10T03:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T03:53:18","slug":"nikon-p300-a-light-swallowing-1080p-shooting-pocket-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/nikon-p300-a-light-swallowing-1080p-shooting-pocket-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon P300: A Light-Swallowing, 1080p-Shooting Pocket Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Nikon’s answer to the Canon S95 pocket dynamo. The P300 pairs a 12.1-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor (which picks up more light than a standard CMOS sensor) with a fast f1.8 lens. Max ISO is 3200. And it shoots 1080p video at 30fps.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s also got a new easy panorama mode seemingly borrowed from Sony’s pocketcams, creative filters like faux fisheye and a built-in HDR mode that combines multiple shots at different exposures in camera to create HDR shots. (Click to embiggen the specs box.)<\/p>\n

The P300’s a little fatter than the S95, but if the photos deliver what’s promised on paper, it’s some extra bulge I can definitely handle. Other downside? No RAW photos, unlike its pro point-and-shoot competition. I’m guessing that’s where they shaved off the feature set to keep it down to $330, around $70 cheaper than the S95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Nikon’s answer to the Canon S95 pocket dynamo. The P300 pairs a 12.1-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor (which picks up more light than a standard CMOS sensor) with a fast f1.8 lens. Max ISO is 3200. And it shoots 1080p video at 30fps. Full size It’s also got a new easy panorama mode … Continue reading “Nikon P300: A Light-Swallowing, 1080p-Shooting Pocket Monster”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-nikon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}