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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bird_Huszar" data-source="post: 3189852" data-attributes="member: 129367">Hey guys I just to the P900 yesterday and already went out birding with it.  I originally had an Olympus with 36 x zoom but quickly upgraded to the legendary Canon SX50.  I also had the SX60 for a bit but had to return it because I felt it wasn't $600 better than my SX50.  Now the question is, is the P900 $700 better than my SX50?  Could be, but one thing is for sure, it's definitely bigger.I still have to play around with the settings but I'm not a very technical guy and like things to be as simple as possible.  That's one of the reasons I liked the SX50 so much, I could do most things very easily on 'Auto' mode and sometimes even get great pictures.  When birding the last thing I wanna do is go hunting for settings half of which I can't remember in the heat of the birding moment.Anyway back to the P900...as mentioned it is a huge camera and also very heavy.  Not sure how that is going to play out on an all-day birding adventure...but I see others with their massive SLR and lenses so I guess I could bear it.One thing that does concern me though is how dark the images come out in auto mode.  The SX50 is far superior in this regard.  Now it could just be my technical ineptitude but you'd think that the default setting would be more balanced.  I cannot even see what I took pictures of...no detail just complete darkness.  And the lighting was fine, plus I checked on 2 different monitors and it's not that.I'll keep playing around with the camera but if I can't solve this issue in a simple and effective manner...I'm definitely returning it.  The zoom is fantastic no doubt...it does blow the SX50 out of the water and not just in distance but also detail.  Focusing is a bit wishy-washy.  I tried to focus in on some very slow moving Canada Geese and I don't know how the camera did not focus on the Geese but the ground instead.  With the SX50 you could lock the focus point and ensure that the auto focus would be concentrated on that point.  It's very quick, simple and easy and gets even some of the fleeting birds with relative ease.  P900 shutter speed is pretty good but for something that quick and dark, you'd think it would have more detail...maybe it was just the idiotic focus. Anyway, I'm not a technical person as I already admitted ...and maybe I'm just too used to the SX50 but I'm not giving up just yet.Edit: I just discovered bird-watching mode...and that concentrated focus point did appear ...very similar to the SX50.  Ok this gives me hope again.  But the darkness I hope is solve-able too.</blockquote>

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