The Nikon Coolpix P90 was launched by

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on 3 February 2009 as an improved version of the

Nikon Coolpix P80 The Coolpix P80 is a point-and-shoot digital camera produced by Nikon that was introduced in April 2008. Its image sensor is a Charge-coupled device, CCD with 10.1 megapixels. It has an 18x optical zoom lens that is not interchangeable. The Coo ...

. It is a 12-megapixel CCD

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with a fixed 24× zoom lens giving more than twelve times image magnification fully extended. A year later in March 2010, the camera was replaced by the P100 model. The notable improvement in the P100 is the use of a CMOS image sensor with claimed better light sensitivity and less noise, but with a lower 10 MP resolution.

Features

It is a 12-megapixel CCD

with a fixed 24× zoom Nikkor ED glass lens giving more than twelve times image magnification fully extended. Vibration reduction (VR) image stabilisation. The camera has a three-inch (76 mm) LCD display that may be folded 45 degrees downward and 90 degrees upward to facilitate shooting above-the-head or low-to-the ground images as well as traditional waist-level and eye-level viewing. The electronic eyelevel viewfinder has the same resolution as the LCD display.Nikon Coolpix P90 press release
Most of the features otherwise are carried over from the P80 model.

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