Nikon's top of the zoom P900

[jcuknz]

Interesting review by Bob Atkins of this 'do it all' except shoot in raw camera with its 24-2000 zoom lens.

http://photo.net/equipment/nikon/p900/

[Steaphany]

I'm quite surprised by what they were able to pull from a 83X Zoom

[Shadowman]

I'm sure it's a very capable camera, familiar with one of their early/early bridge cameras.

[Manfred M]

Of course, trying to shoot with a 2000mm FF equiv. is not going to be easy. Hand holding at that focal length and getting a decent shot would be little more than blind luck for most users (most of the target market is unlikely to invest in a tripod, I suspect). A few more mm on the short side would definitely be more useful (and much harder to implement) than ludicrously long zooms.

[jcuknz]

Some can do it and if you can then it is worth as try... I have more than quarter cropped my 950mm rig so know while for some it maybe luck for me it is a question of doing it properly, also subject matter helps I am sure.. always hand held by the way, but then I was in my regimental rifle team during National Service in the early fifties and habits die hard.
In all cases it is what comes out of the editor rather than the camera which is important.
Without having seen more than the review I suspect that my 'big bertha' rig would be more inherently stable than the Nikon ... but I also started with a Nikon bridge and virtually reverted to its specifications with my MFT rig because of the excellence of the results when I did it 'right'

'Big Bertha'


My original FZ20 from Panasonic with a Raynox 2020 tele-adaptor, hence the drainpipe lenshood because the 2020 does not have a thread like the later 2025 ... also the tripod collar which from memory only used once .. working off a tripod too clumsy for me personally.

[jcuknz]

Reading a adjacent thread about tele-converter and the warnings about light loss I have always been rather pleased with Big Bertha rig where the 35-432 lens had a aperture at full zoom of f/3.2 and the Raynox took about half a stop which result, because of the way the lens match up to each other, a 950mm rig at about f/4.5 which went quite a way in enabling one to work at 100 ISO.
So one of my continuing regrets is the way R&D has gone from 35mm down to mid twenties 'To get it all in' when on the rare occasion when I need a 'wide view' I can stitch, manually with an editor rather than automatically with a stitch program .... so until I got my 'bug-eye' for fun I was satisfied with 35.

edit ... this contrasts to my current MFT rig where my OLympus TCON x1.7 does not match up with my 14-140 zoom and turns the already slow f/5.8 into around f/10