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<blockquote data-quote="Jon Robert" data-source="post: 553954" data-attributes="member: 42052"><p>Thanks for the ideas. My question was: Buy longer lens, better camera, or crop center of what I have for my Alaska trip. My pondering led me to buy the relatively new Nikon P900 as a satisfactory answer/solution. The cost of a mega zoom lens for a DSLR towards 2000 mm was out of the question and any affordable tele/reach improvement would have been relatively minimal for the cost. </p><p></p><p>I did a little comparison to see just what would be the difference had I just cropped a center out of my <a href="http://nikonites.com/products/dslr-3/d90-96/" target="_blank">D90</a> and 18-200 mm lens. Very happy with this P900 option/solution.</p><p>Read more: <a href="http://nikonites.com/coolpix-p-series/36275-my-comparison-buy-longer-lens-crop-center-what-i-have-p900-vs-d90.html#ixzz47mqNIMCc" target="_blank">http://nikonites.com/coolpix-p-series/36275-my-comparison-buy-longer-lens-crop-center-what-i-have-p900-vs-d90.html#ixzz47mqNIMCc</a></p><p></p><p>My purpose is just souvenir travel photos of whatever including wildlife. I have been working out the idiosyncrasies of the P900 quirks. So far I am finding that scene mode, birding is a very helpful setting in counteracting shutter lag and getting just that right subject pose. With my <a href="http://nikonites.com/products/dslr-3/d90-96/" target="_blank">D90</a> the lag is nothing and I rarely miss the right instant. Also I cannot crop so tightly with the zoom as the subject (bird) might leave the frame during the 7 shots. The 7 images per "shot" means I will need a much larger SD card than I am normally using. I shoot a lot to begin with x 7 =? . Capturing a still from a movie might also defeat the shutter lag issue. I have chosen a 3:2 image size setting and that only delivers 14MP, that even with the smaller sensor for souvenir photos it is perfectly adequate. But to gain the reach at the $500 price point I will learn to live with the idiosyncrasies.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for the ideas/thought generation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon Robert, post: 553954, member: 42052"] Thanks for the ideas. My question was: Buy longer lens, better camera, or crop center of what I have for my Alaska trip. My pondering led me to buy the relatively new Nikon P900 as a satisfactory answer/solution. The cost of a mega zoom lens for a DSLR towards 2000 mm was out of the question and any affordable tele/reach improvement would have been relatively minimal for the cost. I did a little comparison to see just what would be the difference had I just cropped a center out of my [URL="http://nikonites.com/products/dslr-3/d90-96/"]D90[/URL] and 18-200 mm lens. Very happy with this P900 option/solution. Read more: [URL]http://nikonites.com/coolpix-p-series/36275-my-comparison-buy-longer-lens-crop-center-what-i-have-p900-vs-d90.html#ixzz47mqNIMCc[/URL] My purpose is just souvenir travel photos of whatever including wildlife. I have been working out the idiosyncrasies of the P900 quirks. So far I am finding that scene mode, birding is a very helpful setting in counteracting shutter lag and getting just that right subject pose. With my [URL="http://nikonites.com/products/dslr-3/d90-96/"]D90[/URL] the lag is nothing and I rarely miss the right instant. Also I cannot crop so tightly with the zoom as the subject (bird) might leave the frame during the 7 shots. The 7 images per "shot" means I will need a much larger SD card than I am normally using. I shoot a lot to begin with x 7 =? . Capturing a still from a movie might also defeat the shutter lag issue. I have chosen a 3:2 image size setting and that only delivers 14MP, that even with the smaller sensor for souvenir photos it is perfectly adequate. But to gain the reach at the $500 price point I will learn to live with the idiosyncrasies. Thanks again for the ideas/thought generation. [/QUOTE]
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