Nikon Coolpix P520 / Nikon P520 Digital Camera
The 18.1-megapixel P520 opens up a world of possibilities. Its incredible 42x optical zoom lets you capture anything from superb close-ups to unforgettable panoramas. And with the built-in Vibration Reduction (VR), your photos will always be sharp and free of motion blur. -----
Unprecedented 42x zoom lens
For picture-perfect sceneries, beautiful portraits, unbelievable close-ups and more, the new P520 lets you create incredible stills and movies with remarkable clarity. Its optical 42x zoom lens offers a focal-length range from wide-angle 24 mm to super-telephoto 1,000 mm (35mm format equivalent). Capture wide-angle panoramas, extreme close-ups and macro shots (as close as 1cm) with equal ease. Explore new levels of expressiveness with the P520.
Discover wonderful new angles on the world
Shooting with the P520 is even easier with its 3.2-inch vari-angle LCD monitor. Not only can you enjoy crystal-clear previews of every shot, the monitor can be tilted for easy framing when shooting overhead, in cramped quarters or from new angles.
Perfection while in motion
The P520 features an advanced lens-shift Vibration Reduction (VR) Active Mode, which eliminates blur even when shooting while you are in motion. Its VR Active Mode is so advanced that even photos from a moving vehicle are always in focus.
Designed to inspire
The P520 excels at capturing the most impressive images. At its heart is a back-illuminated CMOS for high-quality 18.1 megapixel images. What's more, its consecutive shot combining technology ensures exceptional images with handheld or night landscape shooting.
An experience worth sharing
With support for the optional WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter, you can instantly send images through Wi-Fi® to your smart devices*, as well as take control of the camera using the optional remote. For an enhanced experience, use its GPS function to save location information with your photos.
Wi-Fi® and the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo are registered trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
* To use this function, it is necessary to install the optional Wireless Mobile Adapter Utility in a smart device.
| Detailed Specification of Nikon COOLPIX P520 | |
| Type | |
| Type | Compact digital camera |
| Number of effective pixels | |
| Number of effective pixels | 18.1 million |
| Image sensor | |
| Image sensor | 1/2.3-in. type CMOS; approx. 18.91 million total pixels |
| Lens | |
| Lens | NIKKOR lens with 42x optical zoom |
| Focal length | 4.3-180 mm (angle of view equivalent to that of 24-1000 mm lens in 35mm [135] format) |
| f/-number | f/3-5.9 |
| Construction | 14 elements in 10 groups (4 ED lens elements) |
| Digital zoom magnification | |
| Digital zoom magnification | Up to 2x (angle of view equivalent to that of approx. 2000 mm lens in 35mm [135] format) |
| Vibration reduction | |
| Vibration reduction | Lens shift |
| Motion blur reduction | |
| Motion blur reduction | Motion detection (still pictures) |
| Autofocus (AF) | |
| Autofocus (AF) | Contrast-detect AF |
| Focus range | [W]: Approx. 50 cm (1 ft 8 in.) to infinity, [T]: Approx. 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in.) to infinity Macro close-up mode: Approx. 1 cm (0.4 in.) (at a wide-angle zoom position) to infinity (All distances measured from center of front surface of lens) |
| Focus-area selection | Face priority, auto (9-area automatic selection), center (wide, normal), manual with 99 focus areas, subject tracking, target finding AF |
| Viewfinder | |
| Viewfinder | Electronic viewfinder, 0.5 cm (0.2-in.) approx. 201k-dot equivalent LCD with the diopter adjustment function (-4 to +4 m-1) |
| Frame coverage (shooting mode) | Approx. 100% horizontal and 100% vertical (compared to actual picture) |
| Frame coverage (playback mode) | Approx. 100% horizontal and 100% vertical (compared to actual picture) |
| Monitor | |
| Monitor | 8 cm (3.2-in.), approx. 921k-dot, wide viewing angle TFT LCD with anti-reflection coating and 5-level brightness adjustment, Vari-angle TFT LCD |
| Frame coverage (shooting mode) | Approx. 100% horizontal and 100% vertical (compared to actual picture) |
| Frame coverage (playback mode) | Approx. 100% horizontal and 100% vertical (compared to actual picture) |
| Storage | |
| Media | Internal memory (approx. 15 MB) SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card |
| File system | DCF, Exif 2.3, DPOF, and MPF compliant |
| File formats | Still pictures: JPEG 3D images: MPO Sound files (voice memo): WAV Movies: MOV (Video: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Audio: AAC stereo) |
| Image size (pixels) | |
| Image size (pixels) | 18M [4896 x 3672] 8M [3264 x 2448] 4M [2272 x 1704] 2M [1600 x 1200] VGA [640 x 480] 16:9 13M [4864 x 2736] 16:9 2M [1920 x 1080] 3:2 [4896 x 3264] 1:1 [3672 x 3672] |
| Shooting Modes | |
| Shooting Modes | Auto, Scene (Scene auto selector, Portrait, Sports, Night portrait, Party/indoor, Beach, Snow, Sunset, Dusk/dawn, Close-up, Food, Museum, Fireworks show, Black and white copy, Panorama, Pet portrait, 3D photography), Night landscape, Landscape, Backlighting, Special effects, User settings, P, S, A, M |
| Continuous Shooting | |
| Continuous Shooting | Single (default setting), Continuous H (Up to 7 pictures are continuously shot at a rate of about 7 fps), Continuous L (Up to 30 pictures are continuously shot at a rate of about 1 fps), Pre-shooting cache (frame rate: up to 15 fps / number of frames: up to 20 frames), Continuous H:120 fps (60 frames are captured at a speed of about 1/125 seconds or faster), Continuous H:60 fps (60 frames are captured at a speed of about 1/60 seconds or faster), BSS (Best Shot Selector), Multi-shot 16, Intvl timer shooting |
| Movie | |
| Movie | 1080(fine)/30p (default setting): 1920 x 1080/16:9/approx. 30 fps, 1080(fine)/25p (default setting): 1920 x 1080/16:9/approx. 25 fps, 1080/30p: 1920 x 1080/16:9/approx. 30 fps, 1080/25p: 1920 x 1080/16:9/approx. 25 fps, 1080/60i: 1920 x 1080/16:9/approx. 60 fps, 1080/50i: 1920 x 1080/16:9/approx. 50 fps, 720/30p: 1280 x 720/16:9/approx. 30 fps, 720/25p: 1280 x 720/16:9/approx. 25 fps, iFrame 540/30p: 960 x 540/16:9/approx. 30 fps, iFrame 540/25p: 960 x 540/16:9/approx. 25 fps, 480/30p: 640 x 480/4:3/approx. 30 fps, 480/25p: 640 x 480/4:3/approx. 25 fps, HS 480/4x: 640 x 480/4:3, HS 720/2x: 1280 x 720/16:9, HS 1080/0.5x: 1920 x 1080/16:9 |
| ISO sensitivity (Standard output sensitivity) | |
| ISO sensitivity (Standard output sensitivity) | ISO 80 - 1600 ISO 3200, Hi 1 (equivalent to ISO 6400) (available when using P, S, A or M mode) ISO Hi 2 (equivalent to ISO 12800) (available when using High ISO monochrome in special effects mode) |
| Exposure | |
| Metering mode | Matrix, center-weighted, or spot |
| Exposure control | Programmed auto (with flexible program), shutter priority auto, aperture-priority auto, manual, exposure bracketing, exposure compensation (-2.0 EV - +2.0 EV in steps of 1/3 EV) |
| Shutter | |
| Shutter | Mechanical and CMOS electronic shutter |
| Speed | 1/4000 * - 1 s 1/4000 * - 8 s (when ISO sensitivity is fixed at 80 or 100 in P, S, A or M mode) * When the aperture value is set between f/6.6 and f/8.3 at the wide-angle end. |
| Aperture | |
| Aperture | Electronically-controlled 6-blade iris diaphragm |
| Range | 10 steps of 1/3 EV (W) (A, M mode) |
| Self-timer | |
| Self-timer | Durations of 2 or 10 seconds can be selected |
| Flash | |
| Range (approx.) (ISO sensitivity: Auto) | [W]: 0.5 - 8.0 m (1 ft 8 in. - 26 ft) [T]: 1.5 - 4.5 m (5 - 14 ft) |
| Flash control | TTL auto flash with monitor preflashes |
| Flash exposure compensation | |
| Flash exposure compensation | In steps of 1/3 EV in the range between -2 and +2 EV |
| Interface | |
| Interface | Hi-Speed USB |
| Data Transfer Protocol | MTP, PTP |
| Video output | |
| Video output | Can be selected from NTSC and PAL |
| HDMI output | |
| HDMI output | Can be selected from Auto, 480p, 720p, and 1080i |
| I/O terminal | |
| I/O terminal | Audio/video output; digital I/O (USB) HDMI mini connector (Type C) (HDMI output) |
| GPS | |
| GPS | Receiver frequency 1575.42 MHz (C/A code), geodetic system WGS 84 |
| Supported languages | |
| Supported languages | Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese |
| Power sources | |
| Power sources | One Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL5 (included) AC Adapter EH-62A (available separately) |
| Charging time | |
| Charging time | Approx. 4 h and 30 min (when using Charging AC Adapter EH-69P and when no charge remains) |
| Battery life *1 | |
| Still pictures | Approx. 200 shots when using EN-EL5 |
| Tripod socket | |
| Tripod socket | 1/4 (ISO 1222) |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | Approx. 125.2 x 84.1 x 101.6 mm (5.0 x 3.4 x 4.0 in.) (excluding projections) |
| Weight | |
| Weight | Approx. 550 g (1 lb 3.5 oz) (including battery and SD memory card) |
| Operating environment | |
| Temperature | 0°C - 40°C (32°F - 104°F) |
| Humidity | 85% or less (no condensation) |
| Supplied accessories | |
| Supplied accessories | Camera Strap, Lens Cap LC-CP24 (with cord), Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL5 (with terminal cover), Charging AC Adapter EH-69P, USB Cable UC-E6, Audio Video Cable EG-CP16, ViewNX 2 CD |
| Optional accessories | |
| Optional accessories | Battery Charger MH-61, AC Adapter EH-62A, Hand Strap AH-CP1, Wireless Mobile Adapter WU-1a |
| Unless otherwise stated, all figures assume a fully-charged battery and an ambient temperature of 23 ±3°C (73.4 ±5.4°F) as specified by the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA). *1 Figures based on the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) standards for measuring the endurance of camera batteries. Performance for still pictures measured under the following test conditions: Normal selected for Image quality, 18M 4896 x 3672 selected for Image size, zoom adjusted with each shot, and flash fired with every other shot. The values may vary depending on operating conditions such as the interval between shots and the length of time menus and images are displayed. | |
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