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Hi Shane. I've met several P900 users on my travels who've all been happy with the camera. The quality of pictures from such a small sensor is hard to believe though the camera does need reasonable light to perform well. I'll keep an eye out for your review. Thanks 😊

Hi Phil that's interesting - you have both ends of sensor sizes covered! I use a DJI Pocket 3 for videoing while walking and often when panning. I usually put a note somewhere near the bottom of the screen to indicate which camera I'm using if there is likely to be any confusion.

Thanks and yes when I next add a tutorial it will be somewhere lighter. It shouldn't be too difficult to improve on these 😊. Happy New Year

Thanks for commenting Cheiko 👍 and Happy New Year.

Happy New Year Dave😊. I think the P950 would be a bit of a come-down from the cameras your using. I'm considering that one day I might move up to a camera like the G9 Mk2 but I'd need the 100-400 lens + 1.4 teleconverter for many of the places where I go birding (Micro Four Nerds says the lens won't cope with the 2x teleconverter). I get most of my decent stuff by spending a lot of time out there and rejecting at least 95% of what I capture. I missed a few shots this morning because the auto-focus wasn't playing ball 🙄

@@honky014 I have tried MFT with a 100-300mm lens and the Nikon image quality still won hands down in spite the small sensor. I'm currently using the Nikon P1000 & the RX10IV (clear zoom) as my wildlife combo. The Nikon for birds replacing my way to heavy spotting scope & the close focusing Sony for general wildlife. I'm looking to purchase eventually as an MFT user at Phase detect Olympus body & their 100-400mm with teleconverter 1.4 as the ultimate all in one solution. You cant crop the Sony image after using clear zoom as it results in to much of an image deterioration. Providing the Olympus combo is sharp enough there should be plenty of scope for cropping from such a good sized sensor to yield some nice close-ups.

Thanks for sharing Mark. My heavy spotting scope tends to stay at home now I have the P950. I happened to meet a guy the other day who was very happy with his Sony RX10 IV and left his interchangeable system at home preferring the convenience of a fixed lens on what is a very good camera. It's a pity there doesn't look like being a mark V. It will be a while before I get another camera - I still have some of the basics to learn. In the meantime I'm determined to show the best I can get out of the P950.

Thanks Nikhil 👍. I've been pleasantly surprised by how well the video and pictures turn out from such a small sensor. Being able to zoom in and not disturb the wildlife is a major plus.

Lol 🐣

Many thanks Richard. I'm still in bird watching mode and not yet prepared to spend hours in a hide to get the perfect photo and even further away from setting up a portable hide to get close enough for an average telephoto lens. Happy New Year 😊

Thanks Neil. The internal microphone picks up lots of the zoom noise. I don't mind it too much except at the extreme end when it has an unpleasant rattle. Using an external microphone would solve this but be more trouble. The zoom control around the shutter button can move slowly or quickly depending on how far around you pull it. The zoom control on the side of the lens can be set in the menu to fast, medium and slow.

Many thanks - your country does indeed have an abundance of often very colourful bird species 😊

Thanks for the comment - much appreciated.

A friend of mine has a similar feeling about the music. I'll try finding something a bit more classical for a future video, but as a jazz fan, that's what I'm likely to use for most videos.

@@honky014 If it's low enough I can hear you it's fine, when you struggle to hear what you're saying...not so much.

Thanks Digger 👍 - I also use Davinci Resolve but now edit the Raw files from the P950 before importing them into Resolve. I started using DarkTable as a Raw editor but have now treated myself to DxO PhotoLab 8.

@@honky014 i use Nikons NX studio to edit my raw photos basically because its free😬 i did try Davinci Resolve for raw photos but you had to convert them 1st in adobe which made it too long winded and then i use Davinci Reolve for the video files and actully making my YT videos

I like free software 😊and still have NX studio. I recently tested a trial version of DxO Photolab 8 and liked the result so much I decided to treat myself while it was on offer. It does go against the grain though - the app isn't cheap!

Ah - thanks for the comment 👍

Thanks James👍

Many thanks James 👍

Thanks Dave 🙂. With hindsight I might have split the video into two parts.

Many thanks. I'll have to look those birds up. 👍

Thanks Jason - much appreciated ☺️

Thanks Tony. The footage of the starlings is sleep-inducing. 😊

@@honky014 Mesmerising murmuration ! Each one different, but all come with the 'wow' factor. I wonder if when all the birds took off from the water, a peregrine may have been seen high above? Always thrilled to see a male hen harrier, even a female sets the heart racing.

Thanks 👍

Thanks 👍

Many thanks Woody! 😊

I tried Nikon's NX Studio software to start with which is pretty good but then saw that Darktable was rated with the best for results, but was a bit trickier to learn. However I found enough UA-cam tutorials to help me over the initial learning curve and now open the RAW (NRW) directly in Darktable. It hss 2 or 3 denoising modules that a few clips might have benefitted from.

Thanks Dave 😊. I'm not sure how much I'll be using D-Log M and HLG in future but I'll certainly be making more use of RAW files.

Thanks Richard. Darktable is free software with a reputation that it's a bit hard to get started with, but I found some excellent tutorials on UA-cam. I still have quite a bit to learn about all the things it can do.

Thanks Tony. I'm hoping that I can actually capture a bit more actual bird footage over the winter. This summer was quite challenging.

@@honky014 So much foliage and the harsh light on the long hot days wouldn't have helped. I enjoyed watching your grebes, each with a fish. I recently watched a cormorant at Abberton reservoir. coming up with a fish each dive, while a little egret nearby, didn't even catch a tiny morsal. A birding day without a camera and all going on about 20 feet away. I saw my first two redwings of the winter yesterday November 1st.

@@tonycritcher3419 It was mostly the rain this summer which flooded the usual scrapes and kept the birds away. You've beaten me to it with the redwings though they must be around here as nearly 4k were recorded not far away by people who do bird counts.

@@honky014 Was an awful summer wet then almost drought conditions, not good for my garden customers either, but I retired this year so looking forward to more birding and some photography. Goodness, so many redwings already, I usually hear so many night time flyovers, but not this year.

I usually leave the zoom noise in the video. However I'm likely to reduce the volume a bit when editing the video. The zoom does tend to 'clatter' a bit at the far end of the range. Thanks for the compliment 😊

I got used to having a tripod with me because I nearly always used a scope when out birding. However I don't use it as much now with the camera, managing to get by with the ledge of the windows in hides and fence posts etc. Birds rarely wait around while you put a tripod up and mount the camera.

Thanks! The P950 undoubtedly shares a lot with its predecessor.

Thanks Tony. Yes, I'm also looking forward to seeing the winter thrushes and ducks.

@@honky014 I've heard redwings calling as they arrive at night here over the east coast, but still to see the first for this autumn/winter.

Thanks again Tony 😊

@@honky014 You are so welcome, a lovely channel to enjoy!

Thanks for the kind comments. I did use an action camera (DJI Osmo Pocket 3) for quite a bit of the footage in this video. However I noted down in the right hand corner at the beginning of each clip whenever I wasn't using the P950. The slow motion footage of the bumble bee wouldn't have been possible on the P950. I've been particularly pleased with the photos of dragonflies and it's given me a whole new area of interest. The small sensor means that low light photography or situations that need very fast shutter speeds, like birds in flight, are likely to be a problem. It could be ideal for Chinese water deer as long as you can avoid heat haze problems.

@@honky014 Many thanks, I was so engrossed in the photos and videos, I didn'r read the captions, my mistake, I will watch and enjoy it again and use the pause to learn more. Thank you for replying. Keep up the good work

I've never had a problem with the lack of weather proofing but then the camera is usually in a waterproof bag and I always have a brolly with me regardless of the forecast. I did try videoing in light rain with a brolly protecting the camera but it proved a bit too tricky to get any decent footage. Humidity by itself has never caused a problem.

@@honky014 You mean it's in a " plastic bag"? While you are hiking,/ walking in say a heavy seaside mist? On the west coast of Canada.. It rains a lot here...;-)

I keep the camera in a padded camera bag that is waterproof. I like to go out when it's misty but wouldn't want the camera to get more than a few spots of rain.

No - I'd heard of it but had to remind myself what it meant.

Many thanks Gijs - your own videos seem close to perfection to me 😊

@@honky014 Hello Peter,i am trying to get the best out of it and that takes mostly a lot of time.When i see something interesting i spend hours to get closer,look for the right composition and light and background.I am very lucky with the 1300mm tele and macro on my lens.Thank you for your nice words!! 😊😊

Many thanks - I'm sure you'll have fun using those cameras, I know I do 👍

The camera has always worked perfectly well. It will always have its limitations because of the small sensor size.

The camera has always worked well but has its limitations. I'd like to be able to take detailed pictures of birds in flight and slow-motion video in 4k. However it suits me fine at the moment - I enjoy being out in nature and being able to capture some of what I see is a bonus.

For video at long focal lengths a tripod is very useful. Having said that I often get by all the way up to 2000mm if I have something to stabilise the camera such as the window of a bird hide or even a fence post.

@@honky014 thank you so much! God bless!

Would stills for long focal lengths be ok handheld?

This is probably the wrong camera for stills at long focal lengths handheld. To minimize action blur you need a fast shutter speed which in turn requires a high ISO. Pictures from this camera with a high ISO are extremely grainy - often good enough for an ID but not something you'd want to keep or to share.

Thanks! A few people have mentioned that the background music is too loud. I keep working on it.🙄

Many thanks - much appreciated 😊

Many thanks! 👍

Thanks Peter. Warren Heath is part of Forestry Commission Land, NNE of a large village called Hartley Wintney in Hampshire.

Many thanks! Getting the audio settings right has proved a challenge. I'm hoping to copy the settings used in this video, going forwards. 😊