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No - I'd heard of it but had to remind myself what it meant.

Many thanks Gijs - your own videos seem close to perfection to me 😊

@@honky014 Hello Peter,i am trying to get the best out of it and that takes mostly a lot of time.When i see something interesting i spend hours to get closer,look for the right composition and light and background.I am very lucky with the 1300mm tele and macro on my lens.Thank you for your nice words!! 😊😊

Many thanks - I'm sure you'll have fun using those cameras, I know I do 👍

The camera has always worked perfectly well. It will always have its limitations because of the small sensor size.

The camera has always worked well but has its limitations. I'd like to be able to take detailed pictures of birds in flight and slow-motion video in 4k. However it suits me fine at the moment - I enjoy being out in nature and being able to capture some of what I see is a bonus.

For video at long focal lengths a tripod is very useful. Having said that I often get by all the way up to 2000mm if I have something to stabilise the camera such as the window of a bird hide or even a fence post.

@@honky014 thank you so much! God bless!

Would stills for long focal lengths be ok handheld?

This is probably the wrong camera for stills at long focal lengths handheld. To minimize action blur you need a fast shutter speed which in turn requires a high ISO. Pictures from this camera with a high ISO are extremely grainy - often good enough for an ID but not something you'd want to keep or to share.

Thanks! A few people have mentioned that the background music is too loud. I keep working on it.🙄

Many thanks - much appreciated 😊

Many thanks! 👍

Thanks Peter. Warren Heath is part of Forestry Commission Land, NNE of a large village called Hartley Wintney in Hampshire.

Many thanks! Getting the audio settings right has proved a challenge. I'm hoping to copy the settings used in this video, going forwards. 😊

Thanks for commenting and glad you enjoyed it 😊. I may be hitting my limits with the P950 - still missing too many shots.

Thanks a lot! Glad you liked them 😊

That's real praise! Many thanks Dave 😊

Thanks Gail 👍. These days I'm almost always in aperture priority mode and then play with the exposure setting. When I remember, I make use of the histogram that pops up when adjusting the exposure - ensuring that it's fairly well centred.

Cheers Richard - much appreciated 😊

Great photos at that price is something of a bargain. The 2000mm range of the P950 is not much use when there is a heat haze or in a strong breeze!

@@honky014 yes I have 42x lens rated 24-1,000 optical Think digital goes to 2,000 It’s grate for me Old dead sears film had 90mm and 2x glass With digital can check shots so doing good Your camera has better sensor so more low light As on budget this was great find Think optical zoom better than GoPro 1080p 30fps actually very good

Many thanks Richard 😊

Cheers Dave - much appreciated 👍

Judging by your videos, you have a professional set-up and a very special nature reserve not too far away! 😃

The coolpix p510 is certainly capable of taking good photos at a very reasonable price. Personally I needed even more zoom capability for distant wildlife and video at 4k.

@@honky014 hear ya. Had early coolpix so knew this good. Early like 4x. 42x 24-1000 optical good enough for me

Many thanks - I've just been enjoying some of the more exotic wildlife in your channel! 👍

i think if he turned down the music and put his voice on center (i hear his voice coming only from the left headphone) it would be better

Thanks! 😄

Thanks. I always capture video in 4k except for the clips showing the camera settings.

Thanks John 😀. I didn't need the longer lens for the dragonflies at Thursley. As long as you keep fairly still they are willing to land close by. We'd both need very different cameras to photograph dragonflies in flight and even then you'd need a lot of skill and patience!

Cheers Richard - your praise is much appreciated 😀

Many thanks - much appreciated. Decent video and photos are proving a bit elusive at present - so the next video may be a while!

Thanks for the information. I was under the misapprehension that I may have caused some blur in my narrower aperture tests by disturbing the camera when pressing the shutter, made worse by the slower shutter speed. It looks like I can go with the widest aperture allowable for most of my photography with the P950. 👍

Thanks Sebastian. I've enjoyed taking this camera out on nature walks and seeing what I can capture. I do miss the chance to get good pictures of birds in flight or slow motion in 4k but at the moment I can live with this. 😀

Thanks Gijs 😀

Many thanks - much appreciated. I've just been enjoying your video of Yellowhammers (don't know what you call them). I've never seen so many at once! 😀

@@honky014 Hello,yes i was very lucky that 38 of them - in dutch ' Geelgors ' - landed in a field with seedbaring plants I only film in a nature reserve close to my hometown called the Maashorst nature reserve in the southeast of the Netherlands.I wish you a good weekend!!😊😊

Thanks again Dave - much appreciated 😃

Thanks for the feedback - getting the sound just right is proving a bit tricky. I keep experimenting to try to improve this.

​@@honky014definitely not hard with the right software

Thanks Richard 👍

Thanks Dave. I still have a bit of work to do on making the narration a bit clearer.

Cheers Jason. I've struggled to find birds/insects so far this summer. It's looking a bit more hopeful now 😀

Many thanks!

Cameras like this or the Nikon P1000 will really struggle in low light conditions. Ideally you would need something with a much larger sensor.

Personally I keep the camera in a bag which would cope with light rain, whenever I'm not using it. The bag has a rainproof cover for heavy rain. I don't usually attempt to use it outside when it is actually raining. As the camera is not weather sealed I wouldn't want to take the risk of using it even in light rain.

Many thanks 👍

Thanks Dave - much appreciated 😀

Thanks Jason 😀

I remember it well. The pic you captured would have been tricky if not impossible on the P1000 or P950.

@honky014 Thanks 😊 it was a long time ago and my memory is so short. Thanks for the video.

I love my 950 it’s a great all round camera for wildlife, not particularly good at everything but convenient.

Yes you need good light

I currently use a Celestron Regal tripod with the head from a Neewer GM76 monopod. However this combination doesn't come with my recommendation. The legs on the Celestron always seem to be working loose and when I'm at full zoom and lock the head the camera always tilts up by a tiny fraction making the fine adjustment needed to frame the subject difficult to achieve. Thanks for the question though - you've just reminded me to check the legs before I go out tomorrow!

Thanks Gail - much appreciated 😀

Thanks! I often have trouble with the auto-focus preferring to focus on a blade of grass nearer the camera rather then the bird I'm looking at. Motion blur also often ruins a shot of a bird - the small sensor means that fast shutter speeds are not really on. Where insects are concerned I virtually always use manual focus - there is usually too much vegetation to confuse the auto-focus. I hope to learn more and share it in future videos.