The final crop from close to the right edge of the frame is again less sharp than in the middle, but you can make oput the time on the clock. In the second crop from close to the middle of the frame things look a fair bit sharper and the same goes for crop number three, although the B500 has overexposed just a tad, so there’s not as much detail in this crop as you might expect. As you’d expect, the detail in the middle of the frame is sharper than at the edges, and as well as looking a little blurry, the first crop, from close to the left of the frame suffers from a bit of colour fringing. Overall, the crops from the B500 look pretty respectable. At its base sensitivity setting of 100 ISO the COOLPIX B700 chose a shutter speed of 1/1600.įirstly I’ll point out that the 16 Megapixel sensor of the COOLPIX B500 produces a larger crop area with slightly smaller details than the 20 Megapixel sensor of the COOLPIX B500.

I set the COOLPIX B700 to Aperture priority mode and selected the widest available aperture which is f3.3.

The COOLPIX B500 was set to Auto mode and selected an exposure of 1/1250 at f3.1 set to its base 125 ISO sensitivity setting. The COOLPIX B500 was zoomed in a tad to provide the same field of view as the B700 at its 4.3mm maximum wide angle setting and the ISO sensitivity was manually set to the lowest available setting. For this test the cameras were mounted on a tripod and image stabilisation was disabled. To compare real-life performance, I shot this scene with the Nikon COOLPIX B500 and the Nikon COOLPIX B700 within a few moments of each other, using their best quality JPEG settings and at their base sensitivity settings. Nikon COOLPIX B500 vs Nikon COOLPIX B700 quality

Nikon coolpix b500 for vlogging