Best steady video shots I've seen with the P1000. It gives me confidence that I can get there with more practise. I just subscribed on the basis of this video! Keep it up!
Graham, I don't know a lot about cameras, but I do know that the footage you shot was amazing. Very clear with a lot of rich detail. Really enjoyed the shots of the deer. Looking forward to future films with the new camera. Thank you for always improving your craft for our benefit. Davin
Thanks Keith, looking forward to using it. We might be going to Frampton on Sunday but won't know till the last minute as I'm not driving, thanks again:-)
Nicely done ...👍🏼 I have had the P900 for a couple of years now and just got the P1000 just the other day looking forward to seeing what’s the difference...👍🏼😉😎
The difference is a bit more shakey optical magnification balanced with carrying a breeze block as opposed to a house brick. The P1000 is an overrated gimmick that produces mediocre video footage and compact camera quality stills. A professional version with an armoured waterproof body and a sensor capable of acceptable images = yes. The current version = no.
I had the fz82 for about a month, then went for the Nikon P900 that has a bit more reach with 83x zoom, but that P1000 seems crazy zoom, just don’t tempt me, lol
Excellent addition to the arsenal Graham. I think I'll wait til they upgrade (apparently 2019) the '82 as I'm trying to justify buying a GH5. Of course not for the long stuff - just 1080 120fps stuff ;) LOVE the intro - sheer quality. Exciting times! Si.
Congrats on the new camera, I hope it brings you many years of joy. However, you could film a pair of granny stockings and I'd still enjoy your videos, I’m all for content and there’s very few British channels that can match you for video. Personally I think those looking for finite sharpness are missing the content of your amazing videos.
I just got mine, going to take it out for a field test this weekend in and around Hastings. Looking forward to it. Already done some shots of the moon, video and still, it looks great. Thanks for your video looks really good
I haven't had a chance to use it much yet but it's certainly impressed me so far, some of the features are excellent and the picture quality I think is excellent for a small sensor camera, thanks and have fun:-)
Thanks Lester, it was a warm day thus the heat haze but I think it adds realism and atmosphere to a film, I've got a UV and polarizer on order, the UV mainly to protect the lens, cheers:-)
Hi i have some idea to use camera record soccer player while they played football in a real game and will use that video do clip upload to youtube chanel. I need camara can zoom on stadium one side to other side lenght and it was HD video able to montage slowmotion. can you recomend me a camara.
This is a tremendous. Thank you! How did you find the centre of gravity on the camera when the zoom was out at 3000mm on the tripod? Did you have a special mount? I have just bought one but all the reviews says it 'slumps' forwards? Thanks.
Yes very front heavy, I made a long plate for the tripod and glued rubber strips in positions that support the lens and the plate can be moved backwards and forward to balance the camera:
@@gwafilms Ah wow, great idea. I will do some investigation as really want to be able to do as you have done at my local reserve; film at 3000mm on the tripod. Thanks for the reply. P.s. You don't happen to have a pic of your plate on any vids do you?
Your going to find that 4k will use up a lot of battery life, and to do edits will take allot of juice as well. 4k helps a little on RU-vid but I prefer 1080p because 4k to me is not natural, theres way to many pixels. And it looks fake. But I have to say, right now, your work looks so very clear. And I like it when I here your voice narrating your Journeys. Love your work! So you will be hearing from me allot. So keep up the great work, I love it. You capture some great stuff, see where I live we don't have them kind of settings to get close like you do. At least I never fond any. Thanks for your great work, and God bless.
I haven't used the 4k on this yet but I shoot a lot of 4k with my fz1000 and the images look stunning on a big screen or projected on a huge screen but the rendering times are long too but I agree a good 1080p looks really good:-)
Hi Graham, excellent video I skimmed through the comments and I think I did not see anything regarding the tripod you use for the P1000, would you mind sharing it?. Thanks in advance.
Hi, thank you, the tripod I have used for a long time is a Vinten Pro 5 but what I've found with this camera is that it becomes front heavy when the big lens is fully extended so the small standard plate doesn't perform very well so i have attached that to longer plate with a groove down the middle and glued to strips of rubber length wise and one strip of rubber across the width which sits just behind the focus ring and the camera can be slid back and forth along the groove to balance it and I had to get a longer tripod bush to attach the camera, its a bit Heath Robinson but it works a treat, I'm thinking of doing another review of pros and cons after 10 months of using the camera and I'll feature the homemade plate in that film, hope this helps:-)
Nice overview Graham. I must admit I am tempted to buy this beast! I currently have the Panasonic FZ330 which has the 25mm-600mm f2.8 Leica lens. I also put on the 1.7 TC which takes it to about 1,000mm but is quite long and you have to keep taking it on and off. The Nikon P1000 looks a good option for me for filming wildlife in 4K. I was surprised how stable the deer footage looked considering you were shooting handheld. Would you still recommend it?
Steve Ferneyhough Thanks Steve, yes I would, I’m very happy with it. The pros are manual focus ring, big bright evf , 4K recording, people mention the small sensor but you’re not going to get that zoom range with a bigger one and the footage matches up pretty well with my LUMIX fz1000 & fz82, the cons if any is its heavy but after working with pro cameras that doesn’t bother me, cheers:-)
Thanks very much for the vid, im thinking of making a wildlife documentary. Would you advise this camera to do so. I hope to film a variety of animald at varying distances herons, deer etc
Jonty vlogs thanks, would definitely recommend it for filming, I don’t use it for stills but it’s heavy so needs a good tripod preferably with a plate and a lens support for when the lens extends, you can see what I mean in my channel icon.
Jonty vlogs one of the selling points to me was that it has a really good big manual focus ring and I prefer using manual, if you switch to auto the ring changes the aperture, I sometimes switch to auto just check focus then switch back to manual and when I have used auto it ha worked fine and when I take the odd still, I haven’t found a problem.
First of all: Hi there ;-) 0:50 One Question: Did you say Manual Focus Ring? On my P1000 i just can adjust the ISO not the focus. Can you choose that in the menu??
Yes it's manual, put the switch onto MF from AF and the ring becomes the focus with up to 5 focus assist peaking levels in the EVF, switching back to AF on mine adjust exposure up or down:-)
Thank you so much! It worked 👍 Have you these strange white lines on the edges of objects on the display when its near best possible focus too? Looks weird. Like its going to render all edges 😂 Example www.imgbox.de/users/CypHiLL/Nikon_P1000/121.jpg you see what i mean?
Great camera, but it does not seem to have improved the sharpness yet (i have p900 for a long time). I do not know why. Ideal conditions are needed to make the picture/video sharp. The rest is all kind of blurry. Anyway congratulation on new equipment.
I suppose with a lens this long you're bound to get a bit of softness at the far end, I've use pro ENG lenses in the past and you get that even with those, especially the long ones, I've watched this film on a big screen tv and I think the image is very good and I love the big EVF, thanks for commenting:-)
Before my P1000 i had the P900 too. I know what you mean, but i guess its just what it is. When you zoom through a massive amount of atmosphere 🤣 its blurry. There is no way to avoid that no matter what
Thers some videos online with infrared lenses hooked on camera, sometimes "break" the atmosphere. But I spoke in general about the camera's sharpness for P900-P1000. Simply missing 1-2 steps to good results in almost every condition and regardless of the atmosphere, and not at full zoom. You must always edit it in a program if you want good results. I suppose it's always the case even on much more expensive cameras.
For me the Coolpix Series is overall "just" for Entertainment. And they delivers !! 👍 Especially when it comes to price-performance right? I preordered the P1000 3 months ago for just 850€ .. couldnt resist.
And it's fun, like everything else a man has created, but ... it can be a very creative fun. Regardless of my "critics" of the sharpness, p900 & p1000 are great cameras and worth it to have. Because the p900 is open to me the whole new world. Zoom is the key thing. For example, you can zoom a stone or enter the tree over water on the other side of the river. Infinite possibilities. Anyone who loves to photograph nature (and people too lol) must have one camera with a big zoom.
Hi, I want to purchase this camera, but it is for Portrait shoot (Fashion) or not, can I take glamour portraits with this camera with background bokeh? Can you suggest to me, please?
Tech me Hi, it only has a small sensor thus the 125 magnification, I got it solely for wildlife cinematography but I have taken some pleasing stills with it and the bokeh is spherical and pro looking but you might be better of with a micro four thirds or DSLR for what you want to do but I’m sure you could get decent stills with it
Do you understand that if Nikon used a bigger sensor in this type of camera it would make a larger lens mandatory? This would defeat the purpose of having a camera with a 3000mm equivalent focal length lens in a small package. Any idea what a 3000mm lens covering a full frame sensor at f/8 might look like?
Nice video. Thanks. Had to give it a thumbs down as I don't have any interest in video I was looking for more about the Still image. Not a criticism just not what I was looking for. Cheers
