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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steveblain" data-source="post: 1175394" data-attributes="member: 432">Having had my P5100 for a few days now I have to say I'm disappointed.I purchased it as a replacement for my Canon S80 (which I thought was excellent, if a little long in the tooth now) which has developed a fault.  Straight away I noticed how slow the shooting rate were and saving images to the card were taking a long time too.  When a bird is performing, the last thing I want to do is wait for the damn camera to be saving images to the card!  At 0.8 frames a second it's painfully slow compared to other makes and models of 12MP cameras.I'm also not very happy with the autofocus.  It somehow seems to miss the mark, dispite having the focusing area on the right bit of the bird.  It's very hit-and-miss indeed and that, combined with the slow shooting rate, is making me miss images.I'll keep it and see if I can improve my technique using it, but as soon as something vaguely better comes along I'm jumping ship!Steveps I've been digiscoping for almost eight years, so no newbie! (Cameras thus far - various camcorders in the early days, Coolpix 4500, Contax U4R, Canon S80, now Coolpix P5100)</blockquote>