COOLPIX B500

75 Reviews

Product 32430

$339.95

Features

Comfortably and easily create beautiful 16 MP photos and 1080p Full HD videos, then share your photos instantly with a compatible smartphone or tablet. Flip-up the tilting LCD display and zoom in with the power of a 40x optical zoom/80x Dynamic Fine Zoom (an enhanced digital zoom that effectively doubles the reach) super telephoto NIKKOR ED glass lens with Hybrid Vibration Reduction (VR). Enjoy easy menus and controls, fun creative effects and outstanding automatic operation, all in a beautifully designed, comfortable super zoom camera.
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  • 5

    Don't listen to the negative people who expect $2,000 camera out of a well built affordable camera.

    Posted by Jeff Furman on March 22, 2024

    I would recommend this camera to anyone who wants to learn photography. You will not be disappointed. You will get your money's worth out of it. I love this camera I love the quality nikon puts out. In time you might want to upgrade if your looking for a serious hi-end camera. My saying about buying a camera is you pay more you get more. But if your looking for affordable,good quality,that takes extremely good pictures with a strong zoom this is it the Coolpix B500 will definitely get you started in the right direction and if you want to go professional this camera will teach you for what you need to know when your ready to spend for a thousand or more $$$$ for a hi-end camera.

  • 5

    Don't listen to the negative people who expect $2,000 camera out of a well built affordable camera.

    Posted by Jeff Furman on March 22, 2024

    I would recommend this camera to anyone who wants to learn photography. You will not be disappointed. You will get your money's worth out of it. I love this camera I love the quality nikon puts out. In time you might want to upgrade if your looking for a serious hi-end camera. My saying about buying a camera is you pay more you get more. But if your looking for affordable,good quality,that takes extremely good pictures with a strong zoom this is it the Coolpix B500 will definitely get you started in the right direction and if you want to go professional this camera will teach you for what you need to know when your ready to spend for a thousand or more $$$$ for a hi-end camera.

  • 5

    Love it!

    Posted by Monica Fernandez on November 21, 2023

    I love this camera! Takes amazing photos of birds and at this price range is great. I’m looking for a zoom upgrade to take even closer photos of birds, maybe the B600 would be perfect? But the photos of birds with these camera are still pretty good.

  • 3

    SnapBridge APP Pairing Problems

    Posted by Dalton Lightfoot on July 12, 2022

    SnapBridge DOES NOT CONNECT to Nikon Coolpix B500. Exits pairing before pairing is completed on IPhone. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME OR FIX THE APP? So frustrating!Until it is fixed, you'll get hafe-rated.

  • 1

    Blurry....all the time

    Posted by John John on June 26, 2022

    Not one photo ever comes out in focus. Shutter release is painfully slow. I have been a nikon customer my whole life..Z6, D500, D610 and D5100...This camera is worthless. Don't waste your money

  • 3

    B500 will not connect to iPhone 13 Pro Max via SnapBridge

    Posted by JP H on April 9, 2022

    Great little camera and very happy with it over past several years. Software was hit and miss on my android. Upgraded to new iPhone expecting improvement and now software won't even pair with the iPhone. Installed firmware 1.5 and running latest SnapBridge version 2.8.3 on new iPhone 13 Pro Max. It shouldn't be this difficult. Looks like it's back to wires and card swapping. 5 stars for the camera, 0 for the software.

  • 3

    More functionality needed.

    Posted by Robert Pfeifer on March 19, 2022

    This camera would be so much better if it had manual settings. Canon, Lumix, Sony, and even Kodak have similar cameras but are better because they have manual exposure settings. If you included manual exposure settings and the ability to shoot RAW this camera would be a best seller. As it is, it isn't even as good as a phone.

  • 5

    COOLPIX B500....Almost a perfect camera

    Posted by Walter on November 10, 2021

    I own a Nikon D5100 and a COOLPIX B500 and while I love my D5100 the COOLPIX B500 has slowly become my go to camera. It is compact, light weight and travels well, plus it takes awesome photos. It has all the features I need and is easy to use. While I really enjoy using the B500 there are a few improvements that would make this a perfect camera. These would be a view finder, a fully articulating viewing screen like the D5--- series cameras have and moving the record button to a different location so it does not interfere with thumb placement on the rubber thumb rest pad. Other than that the B500mia almost perfect!

  • 5

    We love our Nikon Coolpix B500!

    Posted by DELORES JOHNSON on June 3, 2021

    I don't understand some of the low reviews and the trouble they had. I bought this camera for my husband. We took a trip to Ireland...didn't know much about cameras or photography. This was the perfect camera!!! We love it so much that we are buying one for our grandson for his birthday this year. We were amazed at how well it did. We always carry an extra pack of batteries but we took almost 2,000 pictures before we had to put in new batteries. We have actually watched youtube videos to learn more about what this camera can do. We tried taking moon shots & did okay. Then we found something on the menu that says use this setting for moon shots. We got some fantastic moonshots. You can see craters and spots really clearly. Our pictures from Ireland were so good we have framed many and they look professional. We really can't say enough good things about the camera. Any trouble we have had was because of our lack of knowledge. After researching we were able to fix every problem.