Nikon Coolpix P100

After the success of the 24×-Zoomer Nikon Coolpix P90 in 2009 Nikon switched its P-line of small sensor digital bridge cameras from using a CCD as sensor to applying a backlit CMOS sensor instead. The Nikon Coolpix P100 was launched in 2010 , featuring a 26×-zoom lens, the Nikkor 26x Wide Optical Zoom ED VR. Its 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor had the same small size as the CCD of its 10.1 megapixel predecessor of 2008, the 18&times-Zoomer Nikon Coolpix P80. P80, P90 and P100 belong to the class of super zoom cameras. But wide range of focal length combined with the typical compact camera sensor size 1/2.3" is a critical case concerning the resulting image quality. But despite of the fact that Nikon was just beginning making its bridge cameras with CMOS sensor, combined with a hard race of the camera makers to extend zoom range of their super zoom cameras faster and better than their concurrents did, thus achieving image quality more like a best possible compromise, despite of all that, Nikon's CMOS super zoom camera performed respectably in tests ans reviews, thus opening the way for many other Nikon small sensor bridge cameras until today.