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P900 random shaking when recording videos??
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<blockquote data-quote="p900er" data-source="post: 579433" data-attributes="member: 42661"><p>Thanks for your answer!</p><p></p><p>Yesterday I had the opportunity to test another P900 and I can confirm what you say, those bumps are not a malfunction from one defective camera, in fact, it seems that all P900 have this issue.</p><p></p><p>I must admit that when we're using powerful zooms the stabilizer has a hard job to do, that's undeniable, BUT, in my opinion is not a justification. As I mentioned before I have a Sony camcorder, which operating with a 3X Raynox telephoto reaches almost the same amount of zoom than the P900 does, and the camcorder does a magnificent job stabilizing the video. What I think is that the P900 is mainly a photographic camera, video recording is just a secondary feature, so the stabilizer for this feature is not the best, and of course not comparable to a video dedicated camcorder. It's a real shame.</p><p></p><p>I have tried shooting video without the stabilizer, and even on a tripod when you slightly touch the camera the vibrations are horrible, they even create inertia, a pendulum-like movement which takes 3-4 seconds to stop, these kind of vibrations generated at large zooms are completely unacceptable and destroy any scene. I have a couple of telescopes, and it's the same kind of heavy vibrations produced by the high magnification. I almost prefer the bumps generated by the stabilizer than the horrible vibrations I get without it. The only situation when I can turn off the stabilizer is when I do not have to touch the camera at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="p900er, post: 579433, member: 42661"] Thanks for your answer! Yesterday I had the opportunity to test another P900 and I can confirm what you say, those bumps are not a malfunction from one defective camera, in fact, it seems that all P900 have this issue. I must admit that when we're using powerful zooms the stabilizer has a hard job to do, that's undeniable, BUT, in my opinion is not a justification. As I mentioned before I have a Sony camcorder, which operating with a 3X Raynox telephoto reaches almost the same amount of zoom than the P900 does, and the camcorder does a magnificent job stabilizing the video. What I think is that the P900 is mainly a photographic camera, video recording is just a secondary feature, so the stabilizer for this feature is not the best, and of course not comparable to a video dedicated camcorder. It's a real shame. I have tried shooting video without the stabilizer, and even on a tripod when you slightly touch the camera the vibrations are horrible, they even create inertia, a pendulum-like movement which takes 3-4 seconds to stop, these kind of vibrations generated at large zooms are completely unacceptable and destroy any scene. I have a couple of telescopes, and it's the same kind of heavy vibrations produced by the high magnification. I almost prefer the bumps generated by the stabilizer than the horrible vibrations I get without it. The only situation when I can turn off the stabilizer is when I do not have to touch the camera at all. [/QUOTE]
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