The Nikon Coolpix Adventures Page 2

The year was 2000 and in October I decided to enter digital phtography purchased the 3 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 990 from Diamonds Camera & Video in Rundle Street East, Adelaide. I also bought the optional lens filter kit, the flash bracket kit, slide copy adaptor, and a new Nikon SB-28 Speedlight Flash Unit.

Flash Memory for the new digital camera system was expensive at the time, and for $399.00 I purched a 96 meg memory card.
The flash system looked a bit unusual, was good most of the time, however at times the flash would not fire at all. I sent the Camera back to the Nikon service agent, hoverer it was much the same when the camera was returned.

It continued to frustrate me but I was still happy with the system as it was all that was really available in my price range and it produced images suitable for sale. I was working mainly photographing interiors of Bed & Breakfast Tourist accommodation at the time and the interior shots were good.


I bought a second hand Coolpix 950 from Diamonds Camera & Video as a backup camera, and it worked well, and the flash seemed to produce better results on this camera, particularly skin tones.
I bought a second hand mint condition Nikon SB-28 Speedlight as a spare backup flash unit.

I bought the Nikon wide angle converter lense WC-E24 and was happy with the wide angle shots that it enabled me to get. I used this setup with the wide angle adaptor for some time in all of my interior BnB accommodation photography work.

Later in the Coolpix adventure I replaced the WC-E42 with the much better Nikon WC-E63 wide angle lens converter.
This produced some very good wide angle shots.

I purchased the Telephoto lens Nikon TC-E3ED and found it a little difficult to use all of that 3x Teleconverter zoom power in general day to day photography.

In December 2001 I purchased the Nikon 5 Megapixel Coolpix 5000 yet again from Diamonds Camera & Video in Rundle Street East, Adelaide. I had limited sucess with this new camera as I was not able to cancel the inbuilt flash when using a Nikon SB-28 speedlight, other than that it produced good images.

It also looked like it would be some time before the required wide angle lens adaptor etc would be available. It was small camera and it did not really suit my large hands.

In February 2002 I sold the Coolpix 5000 and purchased a new 6 megapixel Nikon D100 DSL from Diamonds Camera & Video.

Lastly in the Coolpix adventure in August 2002 I purchased a 4 Megapixel Nikon Coolpix 4500 for $1400 as a backup for my new Nikon D100 DSLR camera.

I found this camera to be very enjoyable, compact, and nice and light for carrying around for an entire day. This was the ultimite refinement of the original unusual coolpix 900 series INHO.

Maxwell's Comment: While some this Coolpix adventure was unfolding I was changing over my film Cameras from Canon to Nikon after spotting a second hand Nikon F5 SLR camera in an Adelaide camera store window.
Read on over to page 3 The Nikon Film SLR Camera page