There is no mic jack, but the stereo mics on top of the camera does well enough. Video quality is good as long as you have a lot of light with low-contrast subjects the camera will struggle to focus when zooming all the way in. (There is a link to the right of each picture to download the full-size image.) Are they shareable online or fit for small prints? Yes, but I wouldn't go blowing them up for big prints.Īlso, even though the camera's Dual Detect Optical VR technology works very well, you'll want to use a tripod or some other support to get the sharpest possible shots. I've included several samples in the slideshow below so you can see that, while subjects can look good at smaller sizes, once you start to blow things up you lose a lot of detail. Shots toward the end of the zoom range lack detail regardless of ISO setting, though. Because of this, and how slow the lens gets when zoomed in, the P900 is not a camera you'd want for indoor shooting. I would steer clear of ISO 3,200 and 6,400. If you keep your crops modest, however, sensitivities up through ISO 1,600 are usable, if soft. Details start to turn to mush above that, though, and you can more easily see artifacts. Up to ISO 200 you get a fair amount of fine detail so that enlarging and cropping in is possible, particularly with close-up shots. Pixel peepers won't like what they see when viewing the P900's images at full size. If these are things you want to do, the P900 is - at least for the moment - going to get you the closest to your subject in the smallest, least expensive way possible. Being able to zero in on a bird that you can barely see or capture a sailboat at sea or shots of athletes from very, very far away with what is essentially a point-and-shoot camera is just plain cool. The fact that I don't typically shoot these things didn't make the camera any less fun to shoot with, though. My family and friends are typically close enough to me that a modest zoom range is sufficient. The moon is about the only thing I can see in the night sky where I am and, well, you can only take so many moon shots.

I'm not a birder or into wildlife photography. That kind of zoom range is something I have little use for. Its Dynamic Fine Zoom digitally increases the range to approximately 4,000mm with minimal loss in quality. The camera's 83x optical zoom starts at an ultrawide 24mm and ends in an astounding 2,000mm.

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