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Nikon Coolpix P1000 camera finally announced with 24-3000mm
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<blockquote data-quote="okulo" data-source="post: 676959" data-attributes="member: 40687"><p>Since I first heard of the P1000, I've read quite a few scathing comments in reviews about the size of the sensor including several who were favourable of the impressive zoom but rebuked Nikon for not using a larger sensor whilst unironically complaining that the P1000 is significantly heavier than the P900. If that all needs explaining, I regret that I don't have the patience to do so. Likewise, that a smaller sensor necessarily means fewer pixels.</p><p></p><p>Mutton dressed as lamb refers to old, tough meat being presented as young tender meat and was most often used to describe an older woman dressing like young woman so I don't see how that metaphor applies here. There are drawbacks of a small sensor such as reduced light gathering but the compensations in other features will far outweigh those issues for most people. It is what it is. It does what it does. I remember when the very thought of a camera/lens combination having such capabilities as this being the subject of an April Fools joke in a photographic magazine some time in the early 1980s. If anybody back then had said, 'yeah, but it has a small sensor', I doubt anybody would have left the queue to buy one.</p><p></p><p>I have a P900 which I usually have in my rucksack with my D5500. I get slightly more use out of the D5500 but there are times when the P900 comes into its own. I have no regrets buying it but will probably be trading it in for the raw capabilities of the P1000.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="okulo, post: 676959, member: 40687"] Since I first heard of the P1000, I've read quite a few scathing comments in reviews about the size of the sensor including several who were favourable of the impressive zoom but rebuked Nikon for not using a larger sensor whilst unironically complaining that the P1000 is significantly heavier than the P900. If that all needs explaining, I regret that I don't have the patience to do so. Likewise, that a smaller sensor necessarily means fewer pixels. Mutton dressed as lamb refers to old, tough meat being presented as young tender meat and was most often used to describe an older woman dressing like young woman so I don't see how that metaphor applies here. There are drawbacks of a small sensor such as reduced light gathering but the compensations in other features will far outweigh those issues for most people. It is what it is. It does what it does. I remember when the very thought of a camera/lens combination having such capabilities as this being the subject of an April Fools joke in a photographic magazine some time in the early 1980s. If anybody back then had said, 'yeah, but it has a small sensor', I doubt anybody would have left the queue to buy one. I have a P900 which I usually have in my rucksack with my D5500. I get slightly more use out of the D5500 but there are times when the P900 comes into its own. I have no regrets buying it but will probably be trading it in for the raw capabilities of the P1000. [/QUOTE]
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