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.

      • anon6789OP
        1•16 hours ago

        I loved finding this set. Even when most of these guys share what they call uncropped photos, it still looks like you’re standing within spitting distance of the subject. This is one of the few that actually feels like it gives an idea how hard it is to see and photograph these owls.

  • Optional
    5•22 hours ago

    Great googly moogly - that’s some zoomage there

    • anon6789OP
      3•19 hours ago

      Found a fun test of the zoom.

      Specs I looked up said it was 125x optical zoom!

      • Optional
        3•18 hours ago

        !! Cripes. 30x optical is pretty amazing. But 125?!

        • anon6789OP
          3•18 hours 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.

          • @[email protected]
            2•17 hours 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 ;););););)

            • anon6789OP
              2•16 hours 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.