Nikon Coolpix with swiveling lense?

Anyone have any info (if?) when Nikon is going to come out with a
model of their DC with swiveling lense that has more than 6.0mp? The
low mp is the only thing stopping me from buying it. I want 8.0mp or
more. I did email them about it some weeks back but they never
replied.

 

Answer the question or piss off.

 

I can afford pretty much any DC I want and have an Olympus already.
But I really want the swivelling lense feature as to me that seems to
open up more creative possibilites than any DSLR. I want more mp than
6.0 though because I need decent qaulity prints. Only Nikon has a DC
with that feature that I know of.

 

Instead of a swilvelling lens, how about a LCD that swivels?
There are a bunch of them, and they would seem to offer the same thing
you want in a camera with a swivel lens.

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Did your email to Nikon end with "Answer the question or piss off"?
If so, that might explain their reluctance to respond to your
question. I asked a question (Nikon tech. support though, not cust.
service) several days ago and received a reply within a few hours.

I can't answer your question though, and if there are any here
that do have that kind of insider information, it's almost certain
that they wouldn't be allowed to tell you anything before Nikon
issues press releases. I'm sure you have your reasons for wanting
such a camera with a sensor having 8mp or more, but are you aware of
the advantages that the camera would have with a 5mp or 6mp sensor?

For my own purposes, I've always chosen cameras having sensors
with 2 to 4 fewer megapixels than the current 'standard', and not to
save money. If the 8mp Nikon that you want doesn't have a sensor
that's significantly larger than the recent CP S10's fairly small
1/2.5" sensor, it's likely to be a disappointing camera. If Nikon
gives you a swiveling lens 8mp camera with a 1/1.8" or 1/1.7"
sensor, that would probably be a pretty nice model. But Nikon put a
1/1.8" 10mp sensor into the slightly newer CP P5000, and ended up
with a camera that suffers from noise at ISO 400. When selecting a
camera it's best to compare several parameters, not just the number
of megapixels, because they're interrelated. Unless you make *very*
large prints, you probably won't be able to tell which pictures were
taken with a 6mp camera vs. an 8mp camera. Even with prints 8"x10"
and larger, the differences would be very slight and rarely noticed.

 

Sure, and while I've made some nice (slightly) cropped prints with
my old 3mp Powershot, the OP apparently doesn't want to consider
Nikon's swivel lens Coolpix S10 because it has *only* 6mp and not 8.
The crop reasoning can only take you so far. You can do a lot of
cropping with a 6mp camera and get good results, but it would be
easy to also say that 8 isn't enough, because a 10mp sensor provides
more cropping leeway. I don't think the OP's going to be convinced
by any reasonable arguments since he said :

That should tell you something about the OP, and he didn't mention
'cropping'. And if that doesn't tell you enough, his surly response
to David (who was only trying to help) might :

 

As does my Coolpix 995, which is of course one of the classic swivel-lens
designs. But it would be nice to see the same body wrapped around more
updated optics and electronics - she's getting to be an old lady now!

Paul

 

I've had both swiveling lens and articulated LCD cameras, and both
seemed to offer the same creative possibilities. What is the advantage
of a swiveling lens over an articulated LCD?

 

Well, I don't really know, since I haven't used one of those
cameras. My Fuji S5100 has a small 1/2.5" sensor and I've had no
problem making nice crops from it, but then its sensor has only 4mp,
not 8mp. My 7mp Canon A620 can also make very nice crops, but it
has a larger 1/1.8" sensor. I wouldn't be surprised if a camera
with a small 8mp sensor could also make nice crops, but as you said,
it would need a good lens and it might still need the subject to be
photographed in nice, bright sunlight.

 

I see what your saying but it's not really the same thing but I guess
it would open up more possibilities too but it doesn't sound as
versatile so would rather have the Nikon but with more MP. I can wait,
just wondering if and when they will have a new model out with more
MP.

 

Probably ease of use. I don't want to swivel the LCD around the
camera. I want to swivel the lense. Why don't you twats just say "I
don't know" and leave it at that? Why are you fuckers in here so anal?
I bet you are a bunch of camera geeks who know lots about cameras but
couldn't create a decent photo to save your lives.

 

And what exactly does any of the above have to do with my question?
I've been a photographer since I was 19 and am now almost 50 so move
along sonny if you can't answer the goddamn question.

 

I'm rude because you are a bunch of dumbass twats who can't answer the
question so you make up completely irrelevant shit because you want to
try and impress each other with your goofy geekiness.

You want to turn this into a flamefest? Fine by me dillweed.

The fact is I already know what more MP's brings to the table so I
don't need to discuss stupid irrelevant shit.

 

You morons have proven to be about as useful as tits on a bull so I
don't think I will bother wasting my time here again asking a simple
question that required only a simple answer and not some diatribe on
why I don't need more MP. You don't have a clue as to what I need so
if you don't know the answer than screw off. How can I put it more
bluntly for you?

And if I ever did need to ask a question here I would simply alter my
headers so you wouldn't even know it was me. Take note of the fact I
use a Usenet sevice that doesn't post my IP address. Now, knowing
that, how are you ever going to know if it's me or someone else on the
same service? And of course the simple answer is; you won't. Have a
nice day butt fuckers.

 

No, but I emaioled HP yesterday and told them to get off their fat
arse's and produce a Vista priner driver. They emailed me with a work
around. Sometimes being blunt can be very effective. You having an
issue with that is just because you are an anal elitist prat.

 

Well, at least you did give me some useful information. The thing is
people in here were saying the same BS when I bought my 2.1MP Olympus.
Now I find all it is usable for are photos to post to the internet and
not much else. I come from an art photography background so am very
aware of how improtant a good quality print is. I've seen twerps who
know nothing about film cameras and they are claiming their shiity
little 6.0mp DC puts out as high a quality as a medium format film
camera. Seriously, I saw a guy saying that one day and you can be sure
a driled him a new asshole and set him straight. Even the highest
quality 12mp DC is not up to the standards I want from a camera but I
am willing to make a compromise if it has other features I want, and
thus, the swivelling lense feature.

I asked a simple question and it only required a simple answer. Not
the grand inquisition on, "why do I need more MP's?". And that is why
I responded as I did. I can play nice but not when someone starts
talking down to me like I'm some noob. That just pisses me right off
and I don't respond nice when people piss me off. Take it for what you
will because what anyone here thinks of me means nothing to me because
none of you even know me.

 

8mp is just a ballpark starting point. It's not written in stone. I
will take as many MP as they can give me (they are up mto 12mp now,
right?). 8mp is the minimum I am willing to accept though. This isn't
for some happy snaps of the family that I am going to put in a photo
album.

 

Whatever goatfucker. I've got plenty more where that came from.

 

Exactly. I think the camera design is great but I want it in a more
prosumer version. Hopefully that will come about one of these days.

 

I rarely need to crop. Yes, I'm that good.