Nikon Coolpix P90

I do not normally profile camera equipment but I recently had a birthday gift of a Nikon Coolpix P90 purchased from South West Optics in Truro. I wanted a light weight camera to carry with me every day and for our longer walks. The camera is certainly a powerful tool with a 24 times zoom with image stabilisation, 12 megapixels and the normal easy shoot settings with manual override that includes aperture priority which is the setting I usually use. The P90 has a rear screen that can be tilted and what I found amazing when looking through the viewfinder the camera acts like a SLR , you actually view what is captured through the lens like a SLR. It is possible to capture bird flight shots ( see the Bittern at Marazion) if I had been switched on at the time I would have nailed it much closer getting a better shot, however it shows what this gear is capable of. The only downside is there is no RAW function. My opinion is that for a compact this is a powerful tool and Ideal for the mobile birder.

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