83x anyone? The new Nikon P900 (23 Viewers)

[Chris Oates]

Yep - I'm liking it more than I thought I would.
Was out today shooting St Ives Lifeboat and compared long range pics with a Nikon FX - the user was very surprised by the P900 and went off to investigate.

The Dolphins I got yesterday whilst being battered by the storm and leaning over a gun emplacement at St Ives Island 500m, F5, 1/250 handheld.

The leading Dolphin is unusually large.

Humpback Whales heading this way too.

 

[poledark]

That's a cracking shot.

Den

 

[peteh]

Still enjoying my p900. I absolutely love taking it on a dog walk when normally I would have had to lug the 7dmkii and 500mm with me just in case anything showed up!
Got this in the garden the other day. Think it was one of the only times Ive had sunlight with it. That seems to make a big difference.
Only cropped in that much as there was a twig in the way.
Bird was about 20-25 foot away.

 

[Chris Oates]

This is what I'm liking - Lifeboat in from a rescue at a rate of knots - the crop is the boats name - considering I was panning, the boat was moving and it was a way off that's pretty good.

I was out today looking for the Humpback Whale which didn't turn up so watched the shipping coming from Land's End to Ireland & Wales + beyond.
I had my bins but it was far easier to use the P900 to ID the ships - I could tell a pelagic trawl from a scallop dredge at 10 miles.

By accident found a feature of Windows 10 I didn't know about - you can 'cast' video or images to a WiFi TV so I had bit of a slideshow looking at the P900 against the Fuji HS50 EXR - confirmed what I thought - the noise level of the P900 is far lower than the Fuji and in poor light the pictures are far more pleasing - I found some from the Fuji that looked 'posterized' - that's something I haven't seen from the P900.

Found something a bit weird today - is was very bright and the EVF appeared dimmer than usual - had to increase it's brightness to +3 which was still not really enough - upon half pressing metering/AF the EVF brightened up but them dimmed again - odd behaviour considering the electronics are trying to supply a constant light level.

 

[Kingofthewho]

A few pages back I was asking about this camera after reading the whole thread and doing lots of reading about it. I finally bit the bullet just two weeks before a month long stay in Belize and I have been extremely happy with the camera.

It has more reach than my bins but it doesn't fully replace my scope. But anything I can see through the scope is within my range of a "record" shot. Videos are great handheld at short-intermediate distances and really nice on a tripod at full zoom.

I have even made it serviceable for large BIF, mainly raptors. At the moment I just use S and crank the shutter speed up, and only try it on sunny days. It's a work in progress of course.

Anyways here are several of my favorite/best shots and I will also link to my flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/136816376@N03/ which is ~90% the P900.

Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Bat Falcon
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Wilson's Snipe
Bald Eagle (Imm.)

 

[Chris B.]

I would suggest that if you have the capability, try running your images through a post-processing regimen. The P900 images tend to sharpen up nicely and are far better than the jpegs out the camera. For some examples, see my Flickr album here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/119765852@N04/albums/72157651552238948

 

[nikonmike]

I would suggest that if you have the capability, try running your images through a post-processing regimen. The P900 images tend to sharpen up nicely and are far better than the jpegs out the camera. For some examples, see my Flickr album here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/119765852@N04/albums/72157651552238948

Out of interest do you work on them as jpegs or convert to tiff,i do one or the other,sometimes if ime not happy with the jpeg edit i will use a tiff.

 

[Kingofthewho]

I would suggest that if you have the capability, try running your images through a post-processing regimen. The P900 images tend to sharpen up nicely and are far better than the jpegs out the camera. For some examples, see my Flickr album here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/119765852@N04/albums/72157651552238948

Any specific things you do to them? I sometimes touch them a little but only with the tools available in iPhoto.

 

[Jane Turner]

Has anyone come up with a viewfinder eyepiece. I could leave my mini scope at home if this camera had something approximating to one

 

[Chris Oates]

Has anyone come up with a viewfinder eyepiece. I could leave my mini scope at home if this camera had something approximating to one

I don't think anything is going to fir on the EVF but I see these gadgets from Amazon being used on the LCD screen.

That one appears to use the tripod mount which on the P900 is offset.

This one just uses magnets attached to the LCD frame - here

Worth a try for £6.

I've taken a punt and bought this one.

 

[Jane Turner]

Pity... I was hoping that something like this might exist.

I'm almost tempted to buy one and see if I can adapt the back plate

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal...969430?hash=item3d072682d6:g:NjwAAOSwo6lWLe5-

 

[Chris Oates]

Pity... I was hoping that something like this might exist.

I'm almost tempted to buy one and see if I can adapt the back plate

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal...969430?hash=item3d072682d6:g:NjwAAOSwo6lWLe5-

There's a kit at Amazon with different size back plates - to fit all of these things normally side slits are need.

If you just want an eyecup this was posted last year in this thread....

FYI, the item that I bought is called a rubber eyeguard (item # 3060100) and it came from Edmund Scientifics...(www.scientificsonline.com). It was $7.00 and almost the same in shipping :-( but it turned out okay so it was worth it...

 

[Kingofthewho]

There's a kit at Amazon with different size back plates - to fit all of these things normally side slits are need.

If you just want an eyecup this was posted last year in this thread....

FYI, the item that I bought is called a rubber eyeguard (item # 3060100) and it came from Edmund Scientifics...(www.scientificsonline.com). It was $7.00 and almost the same in shipping :-( but it turned out okay so it was worth it...

I remember you post about that eyeguard and wasn't sure if I would need something like that. On sunny days if I'm at the "right" (wrong) angle the sun really makes it hard to view through the EVF so I might pick that up. You still use it?

 

[Chris Oates]

I remember you post about that eyeguard and wasn't sure if I would need something like that. On sunny days if I'm at the "right" (wrong) angle the sun really makes it hard to view through the EVF so I might pick that up. You still use it?

I was quoting another poster - I didn't buy the eyeguard - he seemed happy with it.

 

[Chris Oates]

Kestrel in a hover 1/500 1000mm handheld, active VR, continuous 2fps.

Had the camera for a week now and finding it very easy to get good shots.

 

[nikonmike]

Kestrel in a hover 1/500 1000mm handheld, active VR, continuous 2fps.

Had the camera for a week now and finding it very easy to get good shots.

Well i think we should take the camera off you:clap:

That second one is a great capture

 

[Intercooler]

A few pages back I was asking about this camera after reading the whole thread and doing lots of reading about it. I finally bit the bullet just two weeks before a month long stay in Belize and I have been extremely happy with the camera.

It has more reach than my bins but it doesn't fully replace my scope. But anything I can see through the scope is within my range of a "record" shot. Videos are great handheld at short-intermediate distances and really nice on a tripod at full zoom.

I have even made it serviceable for large BIF, mainly raptors. At the moment I just use S and crank the shutter speed up, and only try it on sunny days. It's a work in progress of course.

Anyways here are several of my favorite/best shots and I will also link to my flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/136816376@N03/ which is ~90% the P900.

Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Bat Falcon
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Wilson's Snipe
Bald Eagle (Imm.)

Any distances on the photos and Exif data on the shots?

 

[Intercooler]

Kestrel in a hover 1/500 1000mm handheld, active VR, continuous 2fps.

Had the camera for a week now and finding it very easy to get good shots.

Real nice! What mode do you shoot in when these were taken? Can you get good BIF photos into digital zoom or overhead?

 

[Chris Oates]

Real nice! What mode do you shoot in when these were taken? Can you get good BIF photos into digital zoom or overhead?

Bird appeared about 50ft away so just grabbed camera - it happened to be in auto - I keep meaning to try the 'bird mode' in scenes.
There aren't many birds of interest here at the moment but I've used digital zoom to ID boats at huge distances.
I'll have a try with some Gannets.
Camera is a bit odd about what it will do in different modes - I shoot 'P' normally but you can't have digital zoom in that.

The tiny crop of the Kestrel, Kestrel only filled a quarter of the frame, is really great for me - I've never been able to get that detail at range before.

 

[Spiekeries]

Intercooler, I gave you the settings that work for bif for me and other people. It seems you are not content with the answer now you keep on asking the same question to hear what you want to hear. Why don't you continue and do bif in digital and post your results here. Who knows, you might have good luck with it.

Chris, you can have digital in P. I use it sometimes. My camera is always left in P with digital enabled and I only set it to something else if the need arise. I used auto once, didn't like it and not again. I like to have more control. I also tried "Bird" but don't use it as it's settings don't do it for me. I use my camera for bird pictures more than 90% of the time.