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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil" data-source="post: 1294944" data-attributes="member: 1568">Stephen,            My first impression is that it's not a big enough improvement over the P5100 to make the change, although it is a much better camera than the P5000.  The AF capabilities have been discussed at length in other threads. Although not fast , I find it reliable, and with it's bright screen , faster to get onto the bird in the first place with AF lock on.  I don't normally like to have the camera off the scope so I have to be able to focus close enough off the screen which you can do well with the P5100 and the P6000.  It only let me down a couple of times yesterday , on a black drongo and the intermediate egret walking straight towards me, when I took a whole series that weren't in focus ( I took about 4 gigs yesterday ).I didn't have any way of handling the Nikon RAW images  yesterday so I didn't take any RAW, but I downloaded the Adobe DNG update last night which will handle them (free).  The camera will only take one RAW image at a time and processing is about 5 seconds so I wouldn't buy the camera just for this feature.  GPS is not something I'm interested in either.Neil.</blockquote>