I love using my P950 at full zoom to get really good close ups of my subjects – usually birds. I get some asking how I hold the lens so still? It has taken practice. It is a light lens, doesn’t weigh a lot, so does sway after I’ve pressed the button but by then…
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Using the P950 and Birding
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…
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 –…