Coolpix P series? (1 Viewer)

Neil · Nov 11, 2006

Bob,
Nice one despite the conditions ( I had 7 days straight of sunshine when I was last in Sydney). The advantage of low light with black and white birds is that you get get more feather detail while holding detail in the white areas. Now if you had used the Fuji F30 you would have been able to use iso 800 and freeze the action. It's nice to have in the bag for days like this. Neil.

ray2758 · Nov 13, 2006

I think I have progressed a bit on the skills. Last Saturday I took these 3 pictures I am quite happy with the sharpness. What mainly remedied was I used a 3X map-magnifier to see the DC display screen which gave the focuing more precise. So, P4 is a good camera in digiscoping I will keep practicing more and more.

I would like to thank all here for sharing your valuable experience on settings of various cameras and shooting skills. As a new birder, you saved me a lot of wrong roads.

Bob Thompson · Nov 13, 2006

Ray,

Keep up with the practice, as with any new hobby it takes time to develop your skills. Unfortunately in Hong Kong we also have to fight with the polluted skies. In Australia, for example, even on wet days it is possible to obtain sharp shots.

Bob

Brian Stone · Nov 13, 2006

You may have overdone the glue you used to get that one to sit still Bob.

ray2758 · Nov 14, 2006

Bob Thompson said:
Ray,

Keep up with the practice, as with any new hobby it takes time to develop your skills. Unfortunately in Hong Kong we also have to fight with the polluted skies. In Australia, for example, even on wet days it is possible to obtain sharp shots.

Bob

Oh my God !
Absolutely the effect I prayed long. Beautiful portrait !!

Yes, even though born here, Hong Kong is always misty I hate. The only way to get closer and closer I am looking these outfits :

http://www.wildlifewatchingsupplies.co.uk/
http://www.bird-watching.co.uk/myequipment.htm

And this guy got a big big full frame with the help of an army camp :
http://www.dchome.net/viewthread.php?tid=322516&extra=page=1

Few more photos and thanks to those egrets patiently stayed to let me practice hours long.

ray2758 · Nov 14, 2006

brianhstone said:
You may have overdone the glue you used to get that one to sit still Bob.

Ha Ha Ha !!

Jason Bugay Reyes · Nov 14, 2006

nice pics ray and we have the same nikon scope and you are opening up my mind to rethink about this camera as i was planning to buy the P4 last time for digiscoping ...

ray2758 · Nov 14, 2006

horukuru said:
nice pics ray and we have the same nikon scope and you are opening up my mind to rethink about this camera as i was planning to buy the P4 last time for digiscoping ...

If I were you I would stay to get more information from the users over internet of using other DC on ED82. P4 I am still not very confident to get fully satisfied pictures. Unfortunately, there are too few users over internet talk about ED82 connected with non-nikon DC. I am quite interested to know the quality of Fuji F30 if it is coupled with Nikon ED82. Japaness has more to use ED82 + E7900, pictures of this set are very shape and impressive taken by this kingfisher lover :
http://wbpohya.exblog.jp/pg/blog.as...opt=2&srl=3272308&dte=2006-09-07+22:27:59.000

I would say the set Nikon scope ED82 + FSB-4 + P series is painless save you time to get around finding the adaptor and DC but you need time to get know of its pros and cons.

Jason Bugay Reyes · Nov 15, 2006

yeah i agreed ray. i've been searching through the forum about the P4 especially combining it with the nikon scope. even with different scopes, it is still produced soft images (someone told me the ccd size is small) ...

and u can PM lachlustre, he's using the F39 together with the nikon ED82.

hope to see more pictures from you ray

avan · Nov 20, 2006

I experiment with the AF system in the P series. Usualy the setting are the flower symbol for the 4500 and 990., So this is the setting I use in the P1 with mitiged result to date (some very good to unacceptable). Recently I try the AF mode in the menu (AF in top of the menu), this setting are slower but seem to give sharper result.

ray2758 · Nov 27, 2006

Have these pictures taken by P4 the day before yeaterday (cloudy). I used Marco (flower), what do you grade ? My comment is still a bit blur.

westi · Nov 27, 2006

ray2758 said:
Have these pictures taken by P4 the day before yeaterday (cloudy). I used Marco (flower), what do you grade ? My comment is still a bit blur.

What sort of range were these taken at?

BR
Ian

Brian Stone · Nov 27, 2006

The P4 is certainly capable of much sharper. The attached shots show a one to one crop (800x600) of an original taken at the weekend (f4.9, 1/161s, 13mm, ISO50) and the final tweaked shot. The main drawback with this frame was the noise introduced because I was underexposing.

My main reason for unsharp shots now is the point of focus not being accurate.

HokkaidoStu · Nov 27, 2006

brianhstone said:
My main reason for unsharp shots now is the point of focus not being accurate.

Could you expand on that Brian?

I've pretty much given up on the P4 for the moment and have gone back to my Coolpix 4200. It may be time to have another go with the P4 soon maybe.

Brian Stone · Nov 27, 2006

stuprice68 said:
Could you expand on that Brian?

See the attached pic (only resized - no sharpening). The pebbles behind the bird are sharp but the bird is not. This is either something to do with my eye when I set the focus on the scope or it could be the camera finding the background but it happens quite a bit. When it happens it is always just behind the subject that appears sharply focussed.

ray2758 · Nov 27, 2006

westi said:
What sort of range were these taken at?

BR
Ian

Ranges are printed on the photos (bottom) you may see them clearer after enlarged.

ray2758 · Nov 27, 2006

Some more.......

westi · Nov 27, 2006

Hi Ray,

I'm probably being a bit dense! All I can see on each of the photos is aperture and shutter speed and a measurement in mm (ranging from 7.5mm to 26.3mm) which I assumed to be the zoom position on the lens. How does this relate to how far away the birds were? I was looking for something in 'metres' or 'yards'.

BR
Ian

ray2758 · Nov 28, 2006

westi said:
Hi Ray,

I'm probably being a bit dense! All I can see on each of the photos is aperture and shutter speed and a measurement in mm (ranging from 7.5mm to 26.3mm) which I assumed to be the zoom position on the lens. How does this relate to how far away the birds were? I was looking for something in 'metres' or 'yards'.

BR
Ian

Oh sorry Westi. Those birds are about 50 M away, exactly how far for each one I have forgotten.

HokkaidoStu · Dec 5, 2006

Yesterday I photographed this very co-operative Ural Owl with both my P4 and my old Nikon Coolpix 4200. The 2 pics below were the best from both cameras.

The 4200 had the standard Coolpix settings as recommended by Andy (with the 4500 in mind but the shooting menus are largely the same). The P4 was on A mode, fixed apperture off, white balance on auto and image sharpening on high. It was on AF (macro and the "mountain" icon one were tried too but the AF was the best). Both were at minimum zoom.

Forgive me but these numbers don't mean as much to me as I think they should: Shutter speed was 1/15 on the 4200 (1/7 on the P4), ISO was 79 on the 4200 (50 on the P4) and the aperture/focal readings were about the same (f2.8/7.80 on the 4200 and F3.2/8.50 on the P4).

The 4200 is on the left, the P4 is on the right. Both are completely unedited except reducing file sizes. I think the 4200 is better. I took about a hundred shots on both camera with various permutations and these were the best from each.

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