Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai. In this video I'll be talking about the Nikon
Coolpix A300. Thanks to Camera Craft in Rockford Illinois for let me try this
out at the shop. The A300 is around $140 U.S. so definitely a lower-cost digital
camera. Has a 20.1 megapixel 1/2.3 inch
CCD sensor. That is one of the smallest sensors that they do put in the standard
digicams these days. The lens itself is an 8x zoom. It's 4.5 to 36 millimeters.
The equivalent focal length is 25 to 200 millimeters in the 35 millimeter film
format. So a pretty nice range to the lens. The aperture is f3.7 to 6.6
depending on which focal you are at. So the lens is not a very fast lens. The ISO
range goes from 80 to 1600. You can get 3200 when you are in the auto mode, but
don't expect to get very good results in that case. Auto-focus is contrast detect
only. So let's talk a little bit about the layout.. the buttons of this camera. We do
have the on/off button of course. It has a light in it that indicates the status
of accessing the card, which is nice. That's a good spot to put that light.
Shutter button.. is a nice feel to it. It has the zoom knob right next to it, so it's
easy to zoom... take a photo. It does have a dedicated video record button. I do like
seeing that feature in smaller cameras like this. And also a scene button. Few
other ones, of course to easily change things. Such as the macro mode, and the
flash. The camera does have an integrated flash. Very simple.. it's expected for this
type of camera. It does have a macro mode. At 25 millimeters the wide-angle position,
focuses down to 0.8 inches or 2 centimeters from the center front
surface of the lens, as Nikon says. You can definitely get some close-up
photos with this camera. Video wise, you only have 720p maximum resolution at 30
frames a second. Better than nothing, but not as high as many cameras in this
range. You use SD cards with this camera, and also has 19 megabytes of internal
memory. I don't understand the point of that, but if you do forget
your memory card you'll be able to at least take a few photos. The battery
itself is an EN-EL19 battery. Rated at 240 shots per charge, or around 45
minutes of video recording. I did test this camera out with the Snapbridge
application. You have the Wi-Fi, you have the Bluetooth, and NFC functionality to
this camera. So you can take photos with their remote control application.
Doesn't have a lot of features. I'm not sure if I was in the right modes on the
camera, but all I could really do was zoom in and out. Which it's nice to have,
and then take photos. But maybe there might be some other features. I just
couldn't find them. Of course, you can download photos from the camera to your
smartphone with that application. You can also push photos automatically with one
of the camera settings. They can be 2 megapixels or the original size of the
photo. I tried to do a quick test with video and the VR functionality. There's
three different modes. You have no VR, VR, and then VR hybrid. Which uses some
digital stabilization in addition to the lens stabilization.
The camera does have a USB/AV-out port. Very simple, not much to it, but at least
it does have that. There is a tripod socket. It seems like it was metal, which
is very nice. I couldn't tell for sure. It was not in line with the lens, which I
always complain about, but not a huge deal in that case. So I'm not going to
get too much into this camera. I'm just going to show you what it looks like. All
the button layout, which is not too bad. It's a low-cost camera. Doesn't have a
huge amount of features, but it does work. It takes photos. You can do some macro
stuff. You can do a decent amount of zoom up to 200 millimeter equivalent, which is
nice. Very simple camera. If you are looking for something... Maybe
slightly above a cell phone because of that zoom lens, this is an option. It is
relatively low cost, like I said. It just works pretty decently well. You can
expect it to take nice photos for the most part. So that was Nikon A300. Hope
you enjoyed this video. Again, thanks to Camera Craft in
Rockford Illinois for let me try this out at their shop.
See ya!