I was reading a post in a birding forum on Facebook and the poster had shared she’d used the P950 and was just learning bird photography. Lots of discussion, people making suggestions and so on. I thought I’d share with them about my experience, and here is what I said: Noting the post re using…
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Using Bird Mode with the P950
I’ve been getting a few questions about this so thought I’d share a post on it. I’ve been using the P950 for 3 years now, having bought it at a Black Friday sale in November 2020. I’d done research, read reviews, even got to test a P1000 that someone had before the purchase and was…
How did you get into photography?
When I was young, in my early teens, my uncle would show me his camera and some of the photography he’d been doing. I was very interested in what he could do with his camera. So much so, that on my 14th birthday, my parents gave me my very first camera. It was a Kodak…
Using the P950 – 3 years down the track
Well, it’s almost 3 years since I bought this camera. It’s my favourite camera, my every day camera, lightweight and easy to use, it’s always at my hip – even when I’m out in the garden here at home. When I first got the camera I quickly realised I didn’t like the neck strap –…
A sharp eye and curious mind
I often get told I must have sharp eyesight. I tell people I’m always on the lookout for a change of shape, change of colour, movement and sound, when out and about. It helps if you revisit the same areas often as you get to know the trees, fallen logs, bushes and so on. You…
Shutter Count
Have you thought about how many photos you can actually take with your camera? It is possible to check how many have been taken for many cameras via sites that check the actuation, or shutter count, of an image you upload. In 2008 my husband bought me the new Nikon D90. I loved that camera…
My fav images for 2021
I know I haven’t blogged as often over the past couple of years but I am still out taking photos nearly every single day of the year, and have been for quite some time. I am still in love with my Nikon P950 and it is the camera that I carry with me 95% of…
The cameras I use
I got asked today how many cameras I have. It’s not the first time I’ve been asked that and probably won’t be the last either. Many years ago I had a little pocket Kodak that just wouldn’t cut it when I was trying to photograph my husband and his team out mountain biking. Then I…
Movement, Sound, Change of Colour
I often get told that people miss seeing the things I see, or they’re not lucky enough to see these things. I thought I’d share on how I manage to find all the shots I do, and the subjects too. Movement As I’m often walking along in parks, reserves, even my own property, I don’t…
Nikon Coolpix P950 Camera Review
I thought I would do a review, now I’ve been using this camera daily since end of November 2020. So almost 3 months. I’m a birder so it’s natural that most of my images will relate to birds but it’s not just birds you can photograph with it. And I definitely recommend it as a…
Trying a new zoom with P950
You’d think that with lockdown here in Melbourne, Australia, I’d find more time to write blog posts! But I always seemed to find other things to do. And having always been home to work too, not a lot had changed in that regard. But my photography has certainly been more prolific and it’s time I…
Your camera takes really nice pictures
If you’re a keen photographer, and a reasonable one, you have probably had this said to you many times – I know I have. People see me walking around with my camera and huge lens and go ‘whoa, that’s a big camera!’. Mind you, it’s the lens that’s big, not the camera, lol. And it…