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[realflow100]

Things like maximizing battery life. maximizing image quality.

Any possible ways to maximize video quality as well.

 

I want images to be a calm natural look and feel and not "bright and enhanced" with maximum sharpness and fine details as possible.

 

best aperture. iso settings. ect.

 

Any secret or well hidden features to improve my experience as well.

 

Also what exactly does hybrid vibration reduction do?

it doesnt seem like theres any significant vibration reduction in video mode. with it on or off. its like its restricted to 1/10th what it should be able to stabilize or something.

 

Theres some other strange settings I dont understand what they do as well.

[TBonz]

In all honesty, I am not sure I can easily answer any of your questions, but I will see what I can do...As I have not used a P500 and rarely do any video even on my phone, I will leave the video out...

 

Vibration Reduction is designed to help provide a steady image when you are hand holding the camera.  Do not use it on a tripod as you can sometimes get worse results.  

 

Best aperture, best ISO, the easy answer here is "It Depends"  Every shot is different and unless I was standing there with you, I couldn't give you a blanket answer.  In general, stay away from the extreme ends of the aperture since they tend to magnify the limitations of any lens.  ISO - keep it 400 or under if at all possible to avoid grainy images...some will tell you 200 or lower, but that isn't always practical.  

 

Your best bet for the calm, natural look is to learn to shoot and learn post-processing.  Read through your manual and then experiment.  Get comfortable with how it works and understand when nature may fool your camera's meter so you know when you need to adjust and when you can adjust.

 

I don't know of any secrets to it, perhaps a book on the camera and / or a book on photographic techniques might help you learn some of the specifics of your camera model or photography in general.  For any of the settings you may not understand, the manual or the above book ideas may answer your questions but feel free to ask about specific settings as we have a number of excellent, knowledgeable photographers here who are happy to assist.

[bluzman]

As TBonz has suggested, a reading the manual would provide a good source of information that can answer some of your questions.

 

Oddly, the Nikon website's Support section does not offer the manual for the P500, perhaps because the camera has been "archived".

 

Anyway, here's non-Nikon a link to the manual in case you don't have a copy.

 

      https://cdn-10.nikon...ww2/P500_EN.pdf

 

Also, here's a link to an Kindle ebook on the P500. I found this author's books to be an excellent source of "how to" information when I owned a B700 and a P1000.

 

      https://www.amazon.c...k/dp/B005TOUQ92

[realflow100]

Ive read through the manual quite a fair bit and understand how to use the camera and its many many functions.

but i'm still learning just exactly what settings I would get for maximum image quality.

 

so far i know lowest iso I can get while still having a shutter speed short enough that the image isnt blurry. aperture as wide as possible (seems to also give sharpest image being wide rather than stopped down for my camera model)

 

only other thing left is trying to configure the photo settings to maximize the look of the image. sharpness. contrast saturation ect.

whether I should use auto white balance or manually pick a white balance myself.

is there some general setting that would give really natural looking image. I dont like my photos to be deep fried with burnt out details or ridiculous contrast or colors.

for now I have everything on 0 or whatever is the middle-est value. except sharpness i have on the highest otherwise the photos come out looking like vaseline was smeared on the lens.