Hey guys,
I wanted to pick your brain on a camera for shooting hunting videos and shooting some pics while in the field. I reached out to Joel from Camera Land. I think he is a regular contributor on here, but also wanted to pick you guys's brains and see if you had any experience with this camera or had a favorite of yours that you would like to share. The camera will mostly be used for filming Iowa whitetail hunts (a lot of low light morning and night shots), but I am also planning a 2019 Colorado elk hunt that I want to use the camera for as well. The camera I have been looking at is the Nikon Coolpix p900. The reason I like this camera is the 83x zoom (I am thinking I may be able to use this as a spotting scope on my elk hunt?) and the fixed lens so that I do not have to buy several DSLR lenses and be fumbling around with them in the field when a shot presents itself at varying distances. The articulating LCD screen and wireless capabilities are also very important to me as I said before I do a lot of solo whitetail hunting. I am concerned with how much of the manual features of a DSLR I am going to lose by going with this camera? How are the low light features of this camera? Is it able to do light painting time-lapse video and other low light photography? I was also wondering what the attachment capabilities were? Can I attach a shotgun microphone or link it to personal mics? Also any recommendations on filming gimbals or other accessories for the camera would be great! What I am trying to do is to get as close to a DSLR without having to mess around with the cost and added headache of multiple lenses.
If this is not the route you would advise what other options would you suggest that would have these similar features? I am really wanting to be in the $500-600 range and then I will probably acquire another $200 in accessories over the next year or so.
Thanks for the help!
I wanted to pick your brain on a camera for shooting hunting videos and shooting some pics while in the field. I reached out to Joel from Camera Land. I think he is a regular contributor on here, but also wanted to pick you guys's brains and see if you had any experience with this camera or had a favorite of yours that you would like to share. The camera will mostly be used for filming Iowa whitetail hunts (a lot of low light morning and night shots), but I am also planning a 2019 Colorado elk hunt that I want to use the camera for as well. The camera I have been looking at is the Nikon Coolpix p900. The reason I like this camera is the 83x zoom (I am thinking I may be able to use this as a spotting scope on my elk hunt?) and the fixed lens so that I do not have to buy several DSLR lenses and be fumbling around with them in the field when a shot presents itself at varying distances. The articulating LCD screen and wireless capabilities are also very important to me as I said before I do a lot of solo whitetail hunting. I am concerned with how much of the manual features of a DSLR I am going to lose by going with this camera? How are the low light features of this camera? Is it able to do light painting time-lapse video and other low light photography? I was also wondering what the attachment capabilities were? Can I attach a shotgun microphone or link it to personal mics? Also any recommendations on filming gimbals or other accessories for the camera would be great! What I am trying to do is to get as close to a DSLR without having to mess around with the cost and added headache of multiple lenses.
If this is not the route you would advise what other options would you suggest that would have these similar features? I am really wanting to be in the $500-600 range and then I will probably acquire another $200 in accessories over the next year or so.
Thanks for the help!
