The Function button is a helpful addition to the front of the P340. Used in conjunction with the similarly textured thumb-grip on the rear, it allows you to get a secure grip the camera and be able to confidently use it one-handed. Also on the front of the P340 is a small but helpful vertical rubber strip that acts as a handgrip for your right hand, with enough room for two fingers. Top-left of the lens is a single bulb which doubles-up as the self timer and the AF assist lamp. It's not a new feature on advanced compact cameras, but it is a welcome addition to the P340.
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The ring can be customised to control one of several different settings - exposure compensation, ISO, white balance, manual focus, zoom, shutter speed or aperture. You can turn the dial to set the aperture, by default, which greatly speeds up this key aspect. Surrounding the lens is the new multifunctional control ring, one of the few major differences between the P340 and the previous model. It didn't seem to adversely affect the battery life either, which is around a barely adequate 220 shots, so we'd advise you to turn it on and then forget about it. You don't notice that the camera is actually doing anything different when anti-shake is turned on, just that you can use slower shutter speeds than normal and still take sharp photos. In practice we found that the VR system makes a noticeable difference to the sharpness of the images, as shown in the examples on the Image Quality page. Annoyingly there isn't a dedicated button to turn it on and off (it's somewhat buried in the Setup menu).
Nikon have included their VR (Vibration Reduction) image stabilisation system to help prevent camera-shake, allowing the use of shutter speeds up to four stops slower, while the Active mode ensures clear shots even from moving vehicles. The front of the Nikon Coolpix P340 features the aforementioned 5x zoom lens. The Coolpix P340 feels quite solidly constructed yet at the same time lightweight, with a magnesium alloy chassis and similarly high levels of build quality that you find on Nikon's more expensive cameras. The large 1/1.7-inch sensor and a seven blade iris diaphragm do help to blur the background more, though, delivering good results for a "regular" compact. The lens has a headline-grabbing maximum aperture of f/1.8 at the wide-angle setting, but this quickly drops off as you move through the focal range, reaching a disappointingly slow aperture of F/5.6 at 120mm, which prevents nicely blurred backgrounds from being recorded at the longer telephoto settings. The P340 has a 5x zoom lens with a versatile focal range of 24-120mm, more than wide enough for sweeping landscapes yet still offering enough reach for head and shoulder portraits. The P340 is marginally bigger than the Canon PowerShot S120, quite a bit smaller than the Panasonic Lumix LX7 and the Olympus XZ-2, and a similar size to the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100, although all of these models are still eminently pocketable. You can easily carry the P340 around in a trouser or shirt pocket, as it measures 103.0 x 58.3 x 32.0 mm and weighs 194g with the battery and memory card fitted.
The Nikon Coolpix P340 is virtually identical to its predecessor, the P330, in terms of its external design and look.
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The P340 also boasts a sensitivity range of ISO 80 to 12800, built-in Neutral Density filter, creative PASM shooting modes, full 1080/60i/50i HD video recording with stereo sound and slow and fast motion movies, a burst mode of 10 frames per second, 99-point autofocus system, focus peaking, and a 3-inch 921,000-dot RGBW LCD screen. The new multifunctional lens ring offers quick access to various settings like manual focus, shutter speed and ISO. The Nikon P340 has a 1/1.7-inch back-illuminated 12-megapixel CMOS sensor, 5x optical zoom with a focal range of 24-120mm, maximum apertures of f/1.8-5.6 and lens-shift Vibration Reduction, RAW (NRW) data processing, built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. The Nikon Coolpix P340 is a new pocket compact camera designed to appeal to the keen enthusiast photographer.
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