Benjamin V
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Hello everyone,
I'm new here and I was hoping you guys could help me figure out if my brand new camera can do what I want it to do, or if I need to return it and get something different.
I just bought a Nikon CoolPix P520. Its a point and shoot I would say? 18.1 Megapixels with a 42X zoom lense.
What I want is a camera that has a far zoom range and clear pictures. I wanted something with a higher megapixel in case I wanted to crop the photo's and zoom in further into the picture to use specific parts of it. I also want a camera that can take shots very quickly. I mountain bike and rally from time to time and I want to be able to capture pictures of objects that are moving. I am a very big out doors kind of guy and so, moving targets are going to be plenty as well as landscapes and sunsets etc, etc.
With this camera I am finding it very difficult to focus automatically.
For example- I went to the park today and was about 50 feet from some geese, I wanted to photgraph their heads so i zoomed in. When I had them centered in the frame and wanted to zoom in further, the picture became blurry and would not focus anymore. I tried putting the camera in the manual focus option but I could not get it to focus any better than what the auto focus did.
Also, my pictures are taken very slow, after I take a picture, its usally two seconds or so before I'm able to take another.
So, is the Nikon CoolPix P520 for me and I just don't know how to use it correctly? Or should I be buying some other type of camera. I can still return it, being that I was santa to myself and bought it
Please let me know, all help is appreciated.
P.S
I've never owned a good camera, I am a wizard with my Note 3's camera but other than that. I have no clue. This is why I believe I might be the problem, not the camera. Thanks again
I'm new here and I was hoping you guys could help me figure out if my brand new camera can do what I want it to do, or if I need to return it and get something different.
I just bought a Nikon CoolPix P520. Its a point and shoot I would say? 18.1 Megapixels with a 42X zoom lense.
What I want is a camera that has a far zoom range and clear pictures. I wanted something with a higher megapixel in case I wanted to crop the photo's and zoom in further into the picture to use specific parts of it. I also want a camera that can take shots very quickly. I mountain bike and rally from time to time and I want to be able to capture pictures of objects that are moving. I am a very big out doors kind of guy and so, moving targets are going to be plenty as well as landscapes and sunsets etc, etc.
With this camera I am finding it very difficult to focus automatically.
For example- I went to the park today and was about 50 feet from some geese, I wanted to photgraph their heads so i zoomed in. When I had them centered in the frame and wanted to zoom in further, the picture became blurry and would not focus anymore. I tried putting the camera in the manual focus option but I could not get it to focus any better than what the auto focus did.
Also, my pictures are taken very slow, after I take a picture, its usally two seconds or so before I'm able to take another.
So, is the Nikon CoolPix P520 for me and I just don't know how to use it correctly? Or should I be buying some other type of camera. I can still return it, being that I was santa to myself and bought it
Please let me know, all help is appreciated.
P.S
I've never owned a good camera, I am a wizard with my Note 3's camera but other than that. I have no clue. This is why I believe I might be the problem, not the camera. Thanks again