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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HermitIbis" data-source="post: 3187392" data-attributes="member: 128291">The German magazine "CHIP" has a test: <a href="http://www.chip.de/artikel/Nikon-Coolpix_P900-Digitalkamera-Test_77410411.html" target="_blank">http://www.chip.de/artikel/Nikon-Coolpix_P900-Digitalkamera-Test_77410411.html</a> . Also 40 photos can be studied in full detail. Their test results for other cameras can be compared: <a href="http://www.chip.de/bestenlisten/Bestenliste-Digitalkameras--index/detail/id/996/price/620/" target="_blank">http://www.chip.de/bestenlisten/Bestenliste-Digitalkameras--index/detail/id/996/price/620/</a> (and played around with)Mixed results: much praise, but at full zoom the AF can struggle and IS doesn't work perfectly (surprise!). Up to half of the zoom the IS seems to be "surprisingly" effective however. That sounds a lot like the SX50, no?Obviously the test has a completely different target group than birders, and weighs the "value for money" ratio far too high, so that a brandnew camera is at a massive disadvantage. If we look only at mega-zooms, there is one result in the test which I find particularly impressive: the P900 at max tele position has a shutter lag of only 0.49 sec., significantly better than the Canon SX50 (0.79), SX60 (1.14), Sony DSC-H400 (1.51), Lumix FZ72 (0.79) and on the same (fast!) level as the Nikon P600 (0.45). Great for a 83x zoom.The manual of the Nikon P900 is now available (18.8 MB, pdf): <a href="http://nikonimglib.com/manual/coolpix-p/p900/index_en.html" target="_blank">http://nikonimglib.com/manual/coolpix-p/p900/index_en.html</a></blockquote>

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