To finish my thought... my sister and I both had zooms with a 500mm long end. The Nikon Coolpix P900 would bring things 4x as close, with a lot less weight. Nikon sort of blew away the field with the 83x of the P900. Even Nikon Coolpix forum members are getting sick of people raving about it.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Different tools for different purposes... > > Spent an enjoyable day with my Nikon shooting birding sister. We > started the day in a Crane Trust blind before sunrise and ended at > Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, NE which is a great facility. > > My sister is amazing at seeing birds where I'm obivious. It was great > "exercise" for me and a got a few keepers (but nothing special). We > had a pair of coyotes come into frame while shooting Great Blue Herons > on the Platte River. Unfortunately, on the opposite shore. > > A middle morning visit to Fort Kearny turned up little, but good > exercise trying to capture fast-moving Ruby Throated Kinglets eating > the last elderberries on a bush/tree. Also a single cormorant keeping > his distance in the Platte River. Later, on the way to Rowe we had a > photogenic posing adult Osprey and an immature Bald Eagle enjoying > lunch at the top of a tall power pole. At Rowe we discovered some > deluxe blinds on the river and a tall above the trees blind, open to > the public (Filed for future use.) We also got a distant shot of a > Kingfisher, some black terns and our closest view of a Great Blue > Heron in the river. > > Used multiple techniques (AF, MF, etc.) and learned a lot. I certainly > see the appeal of the superzooms like the Nikon P900 with its 2000mm > equiv (search YouTube for HD video from it). With the K-3 and an > extreme crop I"m only using a fraction of the sensor anyway... plus > the lightness of the P900 would be a real plus.Unfortunately, no > RAW... JPEG only... but still... > > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
