P950, learning new camera

[Steeler71]

I'm on my 3rd Nikon, the P510 was great, loved it's size, took acceptable shots, some even superb. I had to let it go, it was getting unreliable, the power button was failing. Next I tried the B700, I bought a reconditioned from Nikon, I was never pleased with IQ. I never achieved the fine focus I saw in the viewfinder, when I snapped, it was always less than perfect focus. I kept it a year and finally gave up and bought a P950. So glad I did, although it is much larger and harder to handle, I do love the picture quality. I'm just taking jpegs now, still getting used to all the features. I'll try raw later, I'm a creature of habit and will take a while to learn the processing. Just thought I'd post a few pictures to see how I'm doing.




Great Egret and hitchhiker dragonfly




Turkey Vulture




Carolina Wren

 

[Booted Cat]

I'm on my 3rd Nikon, the P510 was great, loved it's size, took acceptable shots, some even superb. I had to let it go, it was getting unreliable, the power button was failing. Next I tried the B700, I bought a reconditioned from Nikon, I was never pleased with IQ. I never achieved the fine focus I saw in the viewfinder, when I snapped, it was always less than perfect focus. I kept it a year and finally gave up and bought a P950. So glad I did, although it is much larger and harder to handle, I do love the picture quality. I'm just taking jpegs now, still getting used to all the features. I'll try raw later, I'm a creature of habit and will take a while to learn the processing. Just thought I'd post a few pictures to see how I'm doing.


Great Egret and hitchhiker dragonfly


Turkey Vulture


Carolina Wren

How could you get so close to these birds... Did you modify the focal length data in the images...

 

[Augustin Man]

You got a wonderful start there, with three excellent images!

Congratulations for the new camera,

Augustin

 

[CMCM]

Excellent...you're doing great already. Love the first one! And I'm impressed at the Turkey Vulture image.....I've found my P900 to be challenging as heck for flying birds, and your TV is better than I've done yet.

I just upgraded to the P950....it arrived yesterday, but already with the few photos I've shot with it I'm finding it superior to the P900 and I love it. I can't wait to get out and do some real shooting with it....hopefully next week when I'll be at the coast again.

Keep shooting....and we always enjoy seeing photos on this forum!

 

[Steeler71]

Thanks for the encouraging comments to all, especially Augustin Man, you always make positive remarks. As to how I get so close, just lucky I guess, I stay very still and wait patiently. Do you think these pics would look better in raw? I'd like to improve IQ.

 

[Stephen McDonald]

Wonderful group of photos. It gives us other P950 users hope, to see images like that. Perhaps no one else has ever captured a shot of a dragonfly landing on an egret's head.

 

[p900learner]

Congratulations on the new camera! I can only imagine what your images are going to look like after you get used to the p950 - because these are really excellent. The clarity and light of the TV - excellent. The TV smacks away the notion we hear that superzooms can't do BIF. Nice color and eye shine on the wren.

My pick though is the Egret with the dragonfly - just a remarkable shot to catch. Plus yours is nicely focused - for me dificult to do because that dragonfly was not stark still, and I suspect the Egret had slight movement. Well done. If not familiar, the dragonfly is a Blue Dasher male. Beautiful with the white face and jade-green eyes and blue body. Someplace I read called them "the peacock of the dragonfly world."

Look forward to seeing many more of your images.

Ev

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[KJaay]

Wonderful start, all great! Congratulation on new camera!