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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spiekeries" data-source="post: 3328782" data-attributes="member: 135654">This weekend I took a lot of pictures to practice and test how to operate this camera and to choose the best light conditions for bird photography. Like somebody said, very high sunlight conditions are not as good as overcast. There is too much glare in hi-noon direct sunlight and the camera doesn’t get the contrast right. So did we compare with a friend's Pentax APS and long zoom. The same glare problem apply with it. The APS does have beter image quality but only noticeable if you crop the picture from the same size. If the P900 zoom in instead of cropping a picture to get the same effect it is hard to see the difference. At first I ignored the digital zoom and had it set on optical only. I then took this pictures to compare the full 4x digital zoom to 2000mm optical cropped to the same size. It was resized for the forum limits and some detail lost. The bird was 15m away. Here you can judge for yourself. What do you guys think?For me, the P900 is a definite keeper. If I want something else it will be a Canon EOS 5DS R with a 150-600 zoom with the lowest f-stop available. But .... for the price and size/weight I will rather be happy with my P900.</blockquote>