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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barry Sheinfeld" data-source="post: 3279835" data-attributes="member: 132272">I purchased a P610 last week and have been using it primarily for birding on the birdwatching mode, mostly set on manual focus. For the most part I am pleased with the images after reviewing them on the LCD. I find the pressing of OK to go to 800mm automatically relatively fast to be quite useful as once there most of the time it is just a matter of adjusting it a bit either in or out.  For me this is an upgrade from a Panasonic FZ35 and though perhaps a bit narrow and sometimes a little slow in precise focusing, the EVF is much brighter and clearer than the one on the FZ35.On the birdwatching mode set on infinity and extended to the absolute limit of the optical zoom, the other day I was able to capture   for identification purposes reasonably good hand held images of a perched white-tailed kite that was approximately 400 yards away.</blockquote>