Super Zoom Comparison Nikon P1000, P950, Canon SX70, SX740, Sigma 150-600, Panasonic 100-400 

Hector much thanks for the kind words. Also thanks again for subscribing !

LOVE my Canon SX70 and you will too! Zoom is best used at 65x, with good quality. Any higher and it isn't as sharp, but it can be helped with a photo editor etc. The SX70 is easy to use. Not so great in low light situations, but it's not the end of the world...😁 Again, a good photo editor helps👍

I am an amateur as well. NO WAY can I afford the high end lenses. I have a DSLR .. with standard lenses. Someday, I might be able to get a more expensive lens. Just one though...😂 But, my SX70 ROCKS, so it's ALL good!😊

excellent heard good things about the g2 version.

Simon once again thanks. P50 is an extremely versatile camera with a host of benefits from studio work, mic jacks you name it. It might not be the best specific tool but one of the best jack of all trades cameras.

Agree phones are making huge strides!

Yuri thanks for commenting. Curious what comparisons would you like to see a side by side ? I do not mind doing comparisons but do not want to be know as that guy who compares all the tech and really gets super down in the weeds, no offense there are so many really good guys that do that. This tech is so good we are really spoiled compared against what I use to shoot with LOL! If you are curious about some differences so are others , if you have any ideas I will kick it around. Thanks again stafford !

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Thanks a lot for the response. I'd like a short video with comparison in picture quality between the P1000 and the P950. Thank you!

Totally agree, 1 lens keep it simple and bam you can have some great results. The other cameras are so expensive when you start adding lenses ahhhhh.. Thanks for commenting.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE ...expensive and heavy! :)

Kevin/Jill thanks for commenting. You know the gear is so good now a days that really if you take advantage of the strengths and reduce the weaknesses you should be good. I had the FZ80 as well. Nice camera, sharp images and good detail. 8 months at a campground nice hope you get some good photos.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Yep, we did indeed get loads of great pics!! The FZ80 is a great camera, but would be great to have the extra reach, and the manual focus ring alone on the P1000 is a deal maker. I'm not expecting the P1000 to be sharp all the way out, but nice that it's there. I'd probably be ok with the P950, but there are a couple of features that the P1000 has that, well, you know!

Exactly , good to hear you enjoyed the video as well. Take care !

Sounds like a solid plan !

Depends. see my video if this helps. Lots of questions to ask yourself. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B0wJ_aXOO1Q.html

Also thanks for watching and the kind comments.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE You are definitely fatster than all of the cameras you ever reviewed. Thanks a ton!

Thanks for watching !

You are welcome ! Thanks for watching.

yes I hear that from many p950 owners which is good. Hopefully they will not abandon the p950 lineups

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE I'm a geologist and I work a lot on the field, I already own a dslr (the Canon 550d) but it wasn't versatile enough, mainly because I can bring with me only the kit lens. This is a great compromise because it allows me to easily have the whole spectrum: great pictures of details, panoramic views, distant objects, and also to observe the fauna I encounter!

@@black931romeo Totally agree, and interested in what you are taking pictures of? Do you have a site or instagram ?

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE I have an instagram account but I've never really kept it updated. I take mainly pictures of rock outcrops and details (structures, fossils etc.) for my projects. Anyways, I've been really inspired lately and might start a new profile dedicated to my job, and nature in general! By the way, do you recommend any particular platform aside from Instagram?

@Vincent Still happy ??

All tough calls for sure. I might put out a video on different lens zooms, say 600mm 900mm 1200mm versus 2000, 3000mm so people can decide how much zoom they need.

ahh 950 owner nice ! great cameras !

What if you only need more zoom?

@@sammmyDaviS Only on paper it is alot more. In reality hardly. There is a video about it on RU-vid.

Yes tough decision. Both good cameras for what they are.

@@stiaankruger2699 Yes and the jpeg engines are different as well. Really in the end you will have to adapt to the camera. Very close in overall performance as shown. I am thinking of doing a pros and cons of these two cameras.

@@stiaankruger2699 I’ve decided on the canon & should get it in a few days, it was the weight & size of the Nikon that made me choose the canon in the end. I could be carrying it for a long time.

@@stiaankruger2699 p950 is a good bridge camera I owned one, Sold for a MFT then got a couple of lenses

The EVF of the SX70 is very nice. Either way I am pretty sure those cameras will deliver the goods. Thanks for watching !

Yes, low light no contest the APS-C and full frame walk away very easily. Also thanks for watching......

Much Thanks Gary !

Thanks for watching..

Max thanks for stopping in. Yes totally agree the flexibility is crazy with these super zooms. Sadly they are not really being pushed or marketed that much. I am glad you commented keep shooting !

We can try at some point. Those items can be difficult to get ahold of lol !

Yes, probably the P1000 it is a do it all camera. Slow focus not perfect but seems to have reach, image quality and some decen bokeh if you get it right.

Finally got my hands on a referb P1000... new cameras seem to be on endless back order... I had fun taking videos of dancing mergansers yesterday! I love it so far but I feel a loose component in the camera when it’s on and off. It’s like a counterbalance weight knocking back and forth. The only time I don’t feel it is when the camera is fully zoomed at 3k. Does your camera have that? Or am I sending this one back. Thank you!

@@sarahg1062 well I kind of hear and feel a slight rattle of something clonking around a little but not sure. Mine is very very slight sound. I noticed my canon sx70 is very much tight without any rattles. Wish you could test the ones out at Best Buy or another demo unit.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE thank you. In the meantime do you have tips about getting crisp photos on dark cloudy days? Also my p1000 is having trouble focusing at long distance. Any tips/settings to help that? (Bird photography) Ill review your videos, you may have already covered these topics! Thanks again for your help! You’re videos are a great resource!

Overall I think the P1000 can give a little better image quality due to at lesser zooms you have a wider aperture which gives the image more background blur. You also have 2500mm which might also with compression of the lens give a better background blur. At 2000mm it is very close to each other more so other things come into play like weight, size, zoom compression that is more important. The Image quality again is so close I would not be able to notice the difference. At 2000mm differences might be in variations of the cameras. Both can do great but choose the camera that fits your lifestyle that be the best bet.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Excellent, thanks.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE what is the aperture of the P1000 at 2000mm vs thew 950?

@@shaolin95 Cant remember off the top of my head but it is at least as good as the p950 if not better. I know the p1000 is better at sub 2000mm with aperture it varies but slightly because of the bigger lens.

Gordon no doubt we can do that technically. I do see a trend of more and more canon/nikon/sony crippling their cameras as to buy more and more gear. I think these manufactures are on a path of severe profit optimization that will not allow them to cannibalize any of their other products. I get the feel since the updates for bridge cameras have been a long time we might of seen the last of them. Hopefully I am wrong.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE I am still using an EOS750D from years ago because the Canon lenses work well, the crop sensor helps with telephoto length, and there are enough megapixels. My dad was a big Leica rangefinder guy, but I remember him coming home with an Olympus bridge camera. It was an APS film camera. He took some really great photos with it because he had it with him and it was easy to use. Bridge cameras have their place.

Tom, it is only 1 small test in a huge degree of other tests that can be done. You are correct just jpeg, more crops done on the lenses with the shorter zooms but detail wise they held up surprisingly well. It will have to be up to the viewer if they see large differences. I did mention that we cropped in alot more on some images more than others. Thus basically see yourself with these cameras in a fixed position max zoom best light lowest iso what they can pull off and how they compare. If it was shot 1 hour later we would have different results for sure as the low light performance of the other cameras would take over. I took into consideration the average user not really shooting raw. I hope this helps, not an end all be all test but shows these cameras are more similar than they are different in ideal conditions. Basically do not go throwing away your camera thinking the next camera is going to save your photography.

ouch that is a tough one. Most of the time those games are not well illuminated. So if you want to get pictures of moving and shooting I think you are going to be hurting. Most of my photos from bridge cameras are of fairly static animals or really nice golden light. In a gym the lighting is very poor so not sure I can recommend a with a small sensor. Wish I could help out more.

Tough question just about any one that you can find available. Here in the USA most of the smaller super zooms are out of stock and the camera companies have not been making them in any noticeable quantities. Times are changing so if you can get your hands on any super zoom do it if that is your thing. My feelings in the next 3 years they might be dead ???

@@STAFFORDFUHS what do you mean dead? We ordered the sx70. Really didn't want to spend 700ish$ when we could have bought a 700$ lens. I don't have a dslr anymore currently so we went with the sx70

@@flowrider13roz Well there is no official word on the state of compact cameras. Like us photographers have been asking nikon, canon and no response. It is only an assumption that at some point they might stop making these smaller cameras all altogether. When 2 yeas, 5 years or 10 is only a guess

@@STAFFORDFUHS interesting. I had a sony a7ii but sold it with lenses a year ago for pretty much what i paid. So buying a built in lens camera seemed like a poor move

@@flowrider13roz hold on to it and if it is the last one they put out it will be worth double or triple. Collectors eat that stuff up..

See how it works for you. Just me, but once I get a solid focus I do not want the system trying to refocus all the time. This is a personal choice though not really a rule or law.

Sharpness is a personal thing. Some say it is too sharp, others not Sharp enough. Sharpness is only one spect. Color contrast can make it more punchy.

They are roughly abou the same. Thou the a1000 has a medium speed photography which the P1000 lacks. Basically meaning, s\low, med, fast, where the p1000 for some reason only has low and high. So when shooting continuously you get a longer buffer run with some decent speed. Low continuously shooting is really slow, medium is nice and adequate. I find high continuously shooting too fast and you run out of buffer speed and the camera locks up. Hope this helps !

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE very helpful info. so, I will buy it, thanx.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Hi, man, I bought an a1000, very happy, but it doesn't accept some cards, did you have that? It is written that you can not use this card, although the cards are good

@@user-pq3ur7sj7n Very strange. I have not had any issue with the camera accepting and using cards. I have used many many cards in the camera. Although this could be the card is really new and larger than the camera capacity to read or really old ?? Just an FYI the camera excepts all types for me.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE What does the last sentence mean?

Gustav thanks for the kind words. So it is a tough question but both should work well. If you are carrying extra gear with you then the P1000 will make it all a bit heavier. It depends on how much you will be hiking and traveling around. One thing to take consideration is can you protect your camera well since both are kind of fragile and you need to make sure they do not bang on rocks or other trees ect? The more extreme the hiking, the lighter the camera and gear I take. Also remember 350 meters your image quality will suffer due to air quality, heat waves dust ect. For me I think if it is hiking long distances 3 miles or more, I would go with the P950 as it has extreme range yet alot smaller even thou you mentioned it is not small. The other option is the SX70 which is way smaller and built better. I am thinking about doing another comparison video on this as well. I am surprised that when you start cropping how well it holds up to the nikons, thus with Topas giabit filter your cropping would not even be noticed. I hope this helps.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Thank you 😄👍 This helps a lot! Would really like to se the review SX70

you bet !

Hey thanks for watching! Another video i have is on getting advice on wildlife cameras. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QmqmKtl5RV8.html&t Seen this happen so much.

possibly but the results are so similar that you would not be able to tell the difference

ahh yes you shutter speed is probably way too high as the exposure triangle is out of wack. ISO, Shutter/Aperture all make your photo either dark or light. If you shutter is too high well then you are going to have a too dark photo even if you raise the iso up to 3200... Hope this helps. Look into exposure triangle if you are confused. Hope this helps.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE ok i will learn more…thanks for answering 😀

Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much !

So many factors. I will say that this last video surprised me on the results. Yes the canon's seem to have more noise on the jpeg at higher ISO. Depends on your use, will you need raw, will you need a slightly lower light noise ratio ?? The differences are the same at lower ISO and only slightly better at higher ISO in favor of raw and the A1000, evf ect. So if I already had the camera, to me it would not be worth the upgrade and hassle. The SX740 focuses much faster so you are going to give some to get some advantages. If you can swing a larger camera the SX70, which I will probably do a review in a few weeks is significantly smaller than the P950 which takes the place of the A1000 and SX740 if you ask me. You loose the pocket size camera but gain raw, an evf, more zoom ect. I am really hesitant to suggest someone go out and buy another camera unless it is night and day difference which to me it is not. The suggestion of the a1000 vs sx740 is if you do not own either of them. Hope you understand because most people will probably not notice that much difference. Take care Robert and thanks for contributing.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Yesterday we were out exploring. I took the P1000 and the SX740. With the Canon in a shirt pocket it was so handy and capable I never took the Nikon out of the case! Think I'll keep it. Appreciate your guidance.

@@robertbissett ​ @Robert Bissett curious if you could do me a favor? Take the SX740 and test this. First put it in single exposure mode and take a few pictures say 5 slow delivert photos. Then put the camera in continous high shooting and do 5 burst of say 10 photos. I for some reason am finding that my burst mode photos are slightly less sharp than my single captures. This could be me, but man I have noticed something different with continous shooting versus slow single captures on my camera. Curious on your results ?

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Will try tomorrow. Dark now.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE /Sent a couple emails with photos attached. Clouds and sun. 40x. Continuous won every time. One or more of the ten were better than any of the singles.???

Glad you liked it!

Tough call. I think I am going to do an entire video on this. I just can not really give you a simple answer. I probably could put together a 10 to 20 minute video. hmmmmmm

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Waiting for it..........

Add me in too - SX70 or P950 for stills of birds/wildlife when I want a simple walk around point & shoot to email JPEGs. Have D500 & Z6 for other types of shooting. So, without waiting for you to do another video, would you buy SX70 or P950?

@@whatmeworry2006 size, weight, portability , focus, buffer ease of use, Canon SX70. Zoom range, image quality , flexibility, video Nikon P950.

@@driveintonaturewithjoy heads up on differences. size, weight, portability , focus, buffer ease of use, Canon SX70. Zoom range, image quality , flexibility, video Nikon P950.

Nice, glad I am not the only one seeing these results. Thanks for sharing !

Thanks for watching !

roadtrip thanks for stopping in !

I have used it. Well from what I remember you get alot of detail in the 100 to 250 iso range. After is0 250 the noise is really heavy. So depends on what you are looking for. These are smaller sensor cameras and the z80 is fairly old but it can take some nice photos in the right hands. The buffer was pretty good, takes sharp photos detail when conditions are perfect. The viewfinder was pretty bad very small low resolution ect. The 4K video if I remember was pretty good as well. hope this helps.

Not sure the Sony max zoom is 600mm so have to do much more cropping.

Yup to 600mm the Sony is king. Also much much better AF but I have both Sony and p950 because that long reach is awesome

Yea, I think 30X is the max zoom after that it gets pretty bad for the Samsung. I had a Samsung s23 ultra great phone probably the best image for a smartphone but the bigger lenses win out with the point and shoots at 30X and beyond.

I agree, I had the Sony RX103 a few years back it costs an Eye watering $1399. the M4 is $1699 to $1799. That is getting into some serious cash thou for most people. It is the best point and shoot but almost in another category. I do not have one anymore so could not test it.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE I agree it's in kind of category of itself. But it's also really worth to get it or at least to test it. I have it few months now and I still don't use all features what it offers. It's really fast, autofocus is amazing, I started to record also some HFR videos. It's just that I would love to have more custom buttons or memory recall settings, so I wouldn't need to change some stuff in menus every time when I want to go to continuous shooting (I like it more than sport scene) or for night photos, etc. and I wish that stabilizer would be better too. I would also correct the above comment from Theo GT - optical zoom goes only to 600 mm, but there is "Clear Image Zoom" which is additional 2x digital zoom with some software algorithm to make lines sharper, so it's not as usual digital zoom, but it's not optical zoom either. And normal digital zoom goes up to 4x, so that would make then 2400 mm and not 1800 mm, but this digital zoom is practically useless, because you can make it later on PC (resample to higher resolution), but when you take photo it's still better to get more into the frame and with more light and easier aiming, than dealing with "longer lens", which actually go into digital zoom. OK, that would be just few words from me. ;) Thank you for reading.

@@Zokimaster Yes, I need to find a rental place for that camera or some how get my hands on one !

@STAFFORD FUHS the Sony RX10 IV is definitely in a separate class. I'd read all the great reviews on the image quality, so I tried it out for a few weeks and ultimately returned it. No argument on the great image quality! For me, and of course, this is a personal preference thing, that Sony menu system is a monster. It seems more complicated than is necessary for a bridge camera. When you're paying that much more for all those features, you'd like to be able to get out of auto...it's no fun anymore when your camera stresses you out. For me, I want relative simplicity, more zoom and less confusion! Lol. I admire all of the folks out there who have the passion, patience, and capacity to figure out the Sony menus! :)

@@djbosnick1072 so you took 10 minutes to try to learn a powerful camera? The RX10 has a LOT of features so of course there are going to be many options...take your time and in no time you will learn it and have memory settings for favorite stuff.

Thank you! Cheers!

It is pretty decent, i mean super compact so it does the job. Sadly all camera manufactures are not making very many of these cameras.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE Thank you! Bought it. Great little camera for sunny days.

@@Sergey_Sergeev Excellent, enjoy...

Thanks For Watching !

Yes totally called it no even close.....

Jungle, curious what large differences are you seeing ? I am trying to stay neutral on this. Also youtube does compress the video and image quality on these videos for visual clarity. FYI. Also thanks for watching....

You are not the only one. Most of the times he says they look really close, the differences are SUPER clear to me. Like at 7:06 the P950 is EASILY the most detailed yet he says they look really close. It is very confusing.

@@shaolin95 That is good to hear. At least I am not the only one. I am also a RU-vidr with over 400 videos under my belt and as Stafford mentioned in his response to me, what we see on RU-vid is not what the editor sees in the raw footage. RU-vid compresses the snot out of the videos we upload, and not all videos have the same encoding and compress the same. There really is no standard in the video world. This is why I asked if anyone else was seeing the difference that I was seeing. I have had great-looking videos when I was viewing the raw footage, but looked like they were shot on a cheap flip phone after they were uploaded to RU-vid. One of the reasons for this is that RU-vid uses two different encoding codecs to render videos; AVC1 and VP09. VP09 is a much higher quality codec that RU-vid reserves for 4K videos, professional movies, and RU-vid channels with over a million subscribers. This is one reason videos from the big-name YT channels always look crisper. This video here was rendered using the AVC1 codec. You can see this by right-clicking on the video and selecting Stats for Nerds from the list. Now go over to one of my 4K videos ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Id1TGNJsVGU.html ) and you will see that it was processed using the vp09 codec. This is because the avc1 codec cannot process 4K videos so RU-vid is forced to use the better codec to process 4K videos. This video here would have been much closer to original quality had Stafford uploaded it in 4K quality. If you upload in 4K RU-vid is forced to use the vp09 codec on all versions of the video, So even the 1080 HD video will much better because it was processed using the vp09 codec.

Thanks for watching. I am sadly out of the loop for camcorders performance. I might be wrong but I do not think many camcorders have that much zoom?? Camcorders are still good for video and some of them have dual ISO performance, less megapixels but better low light capabilities, better focus for video as well. Pure video within the zoom range of what is needed , I might go with a camcorder more specialized. hope this helps.

@@MAKE_PHOTOGRAPHS_ANYWHERE right now i have panasonic hc-v10 70x optical zoom but only 720 not fullhd so i want to upgrade but now thinking about nikon p900/950/1000 or camcorder with 50-60x optical zoom …. But nikon good as for zooming and also photo right??? Camcorder bad at photo am i right understand?? But camcorder handheld stabilization is better i think right?

@@anything7087 Yes and when you zoom out 50 60 70 80 90 and more times zoom the footage does shake. Check out my rabbit video all the video is done basically hand held with 3000mm nikon p1000. I only show the most stable video but that is what you can expect. Hope this helps.

Yea, full frame does offer the iso/noise advantage. Thou I have printed photos from the nikons and many people asks what dslr/lens I used. Most are very surprised when I tell them it is a bridge camera. Again processing and knowing what you are doing is key. Most people put cameras like this in auto mode and bam some pretty harsh results.

I wont argue against that.... Thanks for watching !

much thanks