Coolpix A1000 Black

I bought the Nikon A1000 as a camera to carry when I don’t want to carry a DSLR camera (and lenses), but want to have something to provide more zoom and better handling than a cell phone camera. I was waiting for Nikon to release the A1000 as it has the capability of shooting RAW images, and so far I am pleased with the camera.It’s important to note that point and shoot cameras with a long zoom like this, 24mm-840mm, usually have a small sensor, so you are not going to get the same results you get with a crop frame or full frame DSLR. That being said, you can get good results from this camera. All the photos posted here with this review were taken with the A1000 with very minor (or in some cases no) post processing.The A1000 has a number of modes – the standard P,S,A,M modes – as well as “Auto” and scene modes for more automatic operation. The vibration reduction is also very good on this camera, so you are able to zoom long distances and keep the ISO relatively low, or shoot indoor with low shutter speeds. The camera does have a pop-up flash if the subject is too dark, but no flash shoe. The camera also has a sensor so that when you bring it up to your eye to take a photo it activates the electronic viewfinder (EVF). The senor is sensitive so if you run your finger over it the image on the rear screen will be off and the electronic viewfinder will be activated. There is also a button to manually activate the EVF.Additionally, being a Nikon camera, the A1000 has great ergonomics and feels more substantial than other point and shoot cameras I researched. It’s small enough to easily fit in a jacket pocket (or cargo shorts pocket) or purse, but not tiny so that I feel like it’s going break or I’m going to drop it. The rear screen folds out and down, for selfies, (or when you want to get down low for photos of kids and pets) and the camera connects pretty easily to Snapbridge, the Nikon app for transferring photos from your camera to your cell phone.The one negative for me is the battery charging door, which appears flimsy and looks like it will break after repeated usage. I suggest buying a separate charger and some spare batteries, so you can charge the batteries without using the camera. Battery life is on the low side (about 250 shots).Overall, I like this camera and can definitely recommend it, especially if you are looking for something with a lot of reach. There are 1 inch (sensor size) compact point and shoot cameras on the market, but they do not provide a zoom like the A1000. I would rate it 4.5 stars.

Normally I love my Nikon Coolpix Cameras. But the A1000 is a dud! Amazon sent me a replacement and the replacement will be going back too! In dim lighting indoors, the camera displays a purple flare in the middle of the picture. It is more apparent the more you zoom in. It also deleted 12 pictures when I was on a ski trip. I did not delete the pictures, but when I was previewing the pictures in the camera, I noticed some pictures were missing. I then looked at the numbering sequence and found 12 pictures missing. The latch where you insert the battery and SD card is flimsy. It keeps popping open. I would not recommend this camera to anyone. I wanted to upgrade from my A900 as the autofocus on my A900 started to fail. But, I got a lot of use out of that camera over a 2 year period. The A1000, is such a big disappointment.

I'm so upset, just got back from doing a photoshoot of the sunrise, I should have played back the first few shots to test that they were there (on SD card, or internal memory) but I guess I have too much faith in it. Got home and tried to upload to my laptop, and old pictures (209 ct) were there, not the ones from this AM. Put card back in the camera, and it only played back the old ones, and one blank shot that said "out of memory." Did some troubleshooting and discovered what happened -previously (a month ago) an older smaller card suddenly was damaged in the camera.... so it must have automatically reverted to using internal memory. Got about 22 shots, it looks, from that moment. I bought a new 64G card later and used it, and that was where the 209 photos were saved (on the card). But this morning, I start using it, took a ton of really nic ones (I know this because it shows a 2 second glympse of the photo after i shoot, before letting me continue taking shots). Now, putting my camera on playback mode to review my new photos, nothing showed up. Not even of my laptop... Only thing I can think of is that it was full and out of memory -the INTERNAL memory, that is... but not the SD card. However, since it must have still been in the INTERNAL memory mode for shooting (which, I didn't know it was doing that), it wasn't saving the photos I just took? Maybe because the internal memory was full? And it did not inform me in shooting mode that memory was full. It only stated that while in playback mode? I thought it would have warned me in shooting mode that it was out of memory, or that it was still(?) using internal memory? ***And when I playback with the card in, it shows all photos, and even one that I just shot to test out... and photo number #210 says "file contains no image data." Was that because the image is what I took in internal memory, without the card? I'm baffled... what happened? It had done some weird stuff a few months ago, with a few of the older, smaller SD cards I had, like didn't show the photos, and later, it did... or it said the same messages out of memory but then switched back??? I don't know, but this camera confuses me, and I didn't see anything in the manual about it, or in the troubleshooting part. Maybe I missed/overlooked something? I'm jsut disappointed, but maybe the photos will show up somehow at some point, like magic.