From Lindy Pollard

It was a good day. I photographed my 2nd Barn Owl at Perkins Peninsula Park, here in Eugene, Oregon. It makes me really appreciate my Nikon P1000 for the Zoom feature. I first heard crows harassing it. Then it flew to a couple of different trees until it landed in a 3rd one where I was able to photograph it. I was lucky it was perched in the sunlight.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
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          3 days ago

          Some will either still say it’s not enough or that their iPhone is just as good. 😆

          I watched a few zoom tests of the camera and it’s pretty crazy. It looks to have been a limited run and then discontinued when stock ran out, but it’s much cheaper than I would have guessed based on looking up some of the other mega jumbo telephoto lenses these people mention.

          • casmael@lemm.ee
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            3 days ago

            Wow 24 to 3000mm equivalent is pretty crazy man. It’s got a pretty small sensor tho so low light performance is probably not great but still. That’s a lot of millimetres ;););););)

            • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
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              3 days ago

              I don’t know much camera tech, but I assumed it had to be full of compromises after looking at it and doing a quick read. I was shocked it was a Point and Shoor first of all, and then seeing the price I knew it was a too good to be true thing. It’s cheaper than many of the lenses I’ve seen with less power and it’s smaller so I figured corners were cut somewhere.

              One review I read said they were a limited run, but still took a few years to sell out, so I figured it was something very niche, as only so many people want a $1000+ camera with a fixed lens or various things along that line. It’s very interesting to see such a weird hybrid of a camera though, even if I couldnt fully understand why it was so weird.