Review on Nikon Coolpix B500 Digital Camera (Black): A Powerful Photography Companion by Kung Chai ᠌

Better bad software than bad shots! The device has been put into operation. Has some pros As the first "big" camera - quite good. The picture quality is good. Stabilization, even at maximum zoom, works well. For beautiful shots, you need to practice and play with the shooting mode settings. With its cons. Curve firmware of the interface program: - the battery charge, on the display, always displays at 100%, but when connected to a computer (using regular Win10 tools), it displays the real% charge; - when turned on - pushes the lens to the "working position", if the cover is not removed from the lens - swears and does not turn on - this is good and right, BUT - turning on the photo viewing mode without extending the lens will also fail (another reason to accidentally grab the lens fingers); - a proprietary program (from the Play Store) sees the camera from the phone, but does not want to work with it via Wi-Fi (tried from different phones), offers to turn on Wi-Fi on the camera, they say it couldn’t automatically, but in the fotik menu, on the specified In the instructions, the Wi-Fi item is simply missing. - there is no way to charge the batteries without removing them from the camera.