Moon video recorded with 83x zoom Nikon Coolpix P900 shows Earth's rotation

First time my video what I did by Nikon Coolpix P900 got over 220.000 views :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyh9JsOZuf8

Came here to see the video, stayed to see how many people will bash the headline.

soooooo... this is supposed to be good image quality?

digital zoom is bad , the optical looks nice

To show the earth's rotation, it would be better to shoot from the moon, or from another point in space. This video actually just shows an effect of the earh's rotation combined with the moon's rotation and its movement in its orbit around the earth.

Wonderful video. Thanks to dpreview to let us know!

Do not show this clip to your kids, only if you want buy one for them.

Quite impressive! But the headline is indeed ridiculous. How about just, "Moon video recorded with 83x zoom Nikon Coolpix P900".

Doh .... the headline is ridiculous.

He used digital zoom of camera. 83x is not enough magnification to get that close of image to the moon.

The video is falsified, it shows recording from the moon, but you can hear wildlife on soundtrack. Everyone knows that space doesn't have air, so the moon wildlife could be heard from the moon to earth.

So can someone please tell me how I can achieve this with a Sony a7 II, which lens do I need?
thanks

The animal noises are great...

This is an issue with shooting stills of the moon with even a 400mm lens on a crop body (300'ish equivalent), particularly during an eclipse when light is low, if you're not careful; even a 1 sec exposure will yield noticeable motion blur with even a low pixel count camera by modern standards.

Of course, you really need to use manual exposure, and keep in mind that you're photographing an object that's in daylight, so the sunny f/16 rule applies. Add 2 stops because the average albedo of the moon is about 5% (vs. 18% assumed), and it's easy to calculate exposure. If you shoot at f/4 and ISO 100, you get 1/400 shutter speed, which isn't a problem.

"the rotation of the Earth is easily seen as the subject drifts through the frame" - this is a direct consequence of high magnification. Reading the text seems to be something special...it isn't. Anyone who has used a telescope knows that.

Helped by a very clear and stable atmosphere, the Moon surface details are visible. Definitely a nice performance for an ultrazoom, and likely to be expected from similar camera as well.
An example with Kodak PIXPRO AZ522 (AKA Pentax XG-1) at night, although without a tripod:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRdvQARAyV0

Only problem is the thing is as big as a D7100 with an 18-105, and you have to convince concert bouncers it's NOT a DSLR!

Here is the moon at 3200mm equivalent with a GH2 and a $30 tripod. Try catching a plane in front of the moon at that focal length. It isn’t very easy especially without a tracking mount.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYl7GvspoRk

And here is the moon with a $500 telescope and the GH4 at 4K. This did use a tracking mount though. That makes it much easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUsn1LEATs

As a nature photographer, I honestly prefer a 16-600 equivalent lens, with a wide F1.8 or F2.8 wide aperture, F5.6 max at telephoto and A ZOOM RING! You have no idea how much battery that would save and how more precise pictures would be. Don't care abt the small sensor either as long as it has a manageable size. Being weather sealed would also be a plus and USB charging via external power bank and a maximum price of USD600. I would buy it immediately!

Doesn't the moon rotate around the earth? seems like a strange heading for the story. Perhaps, "p900 shows the moon moving across the sky..." Would be more accurate, and probably less exciting (to match the video)

I shot some 4K UHD videos of the moon with my Samsung NX1 the past week with 920mm F9 and 1480mm F6.3 scopes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5qdZmTZVBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1n5HArrQI

screenshots :
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https://farm1.staticflickr.com/516/19276653882_425f59c477_o.png

Hehe. I see moon drift and earth rotation with humble 800 mm (400mm and 2x extender). And with 600 mm on 2x extender mounted on solid tripod that celestial body races outta the frame like that guy Usain Bolt.

Moon video recorded with Canon SX50 HS, @1200mm, no digital zoom:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87469485@N08/13225485093/in/dateposted-public/

No Aliens, no buy Nikon :)

Incredible. :)

P infinity from Nikon is coming out in 2016 that will have 1458x zoom, I believe. http://petapixel.com/2015/04/01/nikon-unveils-the-p%E2%88%9E-the-first-compact-camera-with-a-1458x-zoom-lens/

I would like to see a comparison with a cropped image from a FF sensor using a cheap 300mm prime.

Another reason my telescope is collecting dust in the closet. I remember looking at the moon on the summer nights in 1969 and thinking that for now, it's a virgin moon, and if, God willing, our Astronauts were successful in a few weeks, the moon would forever be changed. I wish NASA could bottle that excitement from that long ago summer, and use it today.

Cool video. Did not think something that inexpensive could capture that. Good work Nikon.

Maybe this camera is okay for taking stills at great lengths, however the servo zoom motor on it is noisier than a 12-year old coffee grinder with its bearings on the lam. So you can use this CoolPix for taking stills.... or for taking MOS silent videos... or sound take videos if you are using an external audio field recorder some distance away from the high decibel zoom. Not a deal-breaker for those who jsut must have that large 2000mm reach and than small 1/2-inch class sensor.

Nikon P900 is a zoombeast.

I considered Panasonic FZ70 with a 1200 mm focal length, an obnoxious zoom. But this camera with a 2000 mm focal length and a super fast autofocus surpasses it by leaps and bound.

One of my video compares the two superzooms.

https://youtu.be/E-pKztVME7s

It would take time for another camera to come out with a focal length higher than 2500 mm. There may not be significant difference in the output between 2000 -2250 mm focal length.

I lied, below! :)

The P900 telephoto "reach" is equivalent to a Canon 5DS R with an 1100mm lens, in terms of pixels-on-target resolution. Both of these combinations (the standard P900 zoomed in to the maximum, and the Canon 5DS R fitted with an imaginary 1100mm lens, offers a plate scale of 0.77 arc-seconds/pixel.

Of course, the 5DS R will almost certainly have a better signal/noise ratio, so its overall image quality will likely be better, if one can find that 1100mm lens, but....at what cost? :-)

The telephoto performance shown here is significantly greater than 2000mm "equivalence", for the reason that the 2000mm number is the FOV equivalence only. It has virtually nothing to do with the actual equivalent "reach" of the moon in this scene.

THAT is provided by the COMBINATION of the 357mm lens and the tiny (very dense) photo sites in that small 1/2.3" sensor camera. It's the combination of the extremely dense sensor + that 357mm lens that provides such great effective "reach."

This camera's "reach" would be nowhere near as good as it is, if it had the very large photo sites of any current FF camera. This camera's advantage would be dramatically less if it had even the density of the highest density FF camera made today, the Canon 50 MP camera!

So, when we talk about the amazing telephoto ability of this camera and discuss how cool the moon close-ups are, we should recognize that it's not ONLY the lens, but, just as importantly, that very small, dense, sensor!

What is most impressive is the lack of atmospheric haze and thermal distortion seeing that the Moon was at a very low angle.

Had the Moon been overhead at 90 degrees, the video would likely be more vivid, and faster(?).

People who are planning to get this camera should check with their environmental atmospheric weather in their Cities and weigh the distance versus the visibility of the City VS the Camera. Beijing at high pollution comes to mind. Gyro tripods not included. (Sarcasm...)

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Amazing!

Where is the lunar rover????

Seems we absolutely need compact camera with a 400X lens, beside that it's of no interest whatsoever ;)

At 1.09 You can clearly see the Hasselblad left there by the Apollo mission :)

The zoom range is impressive. Seeing the earth's rotation is not. Every astrophotographer, ever, has struggled with the problem. Even with a very wide angle lens, only a 1 minute exposure will show star streaks.