Taipei101

Thank you all for shedding some light on this Nikon P1000 image quality issue, and sorry for not providing the exif info , I thought that you can readily extract the exif from the jpegs I attached .

So here are the exif infos of both the Cheetah and Cardinal pics.

The photos were consistent , all the 27 Cardinal pics have the same "blur\shake" or whatever it was , and all 4 of the Cheetah shot were clear.

I kind of gave up on the Nikon P1000 accepting that is a very low quality image camera depending on the "production lottery" , some come out better than others  and I got a bad 1 .

I'll use the Nikon P1000 very little and just for when I need the farthest reach and accepting that it's gonna be a low quality image.

I've been shooting animals with different cameras recently and I'm much happier with the quality.

The exif infos I attached were 1mb but the forum reduced them to 70kb , so if they are not readable I'll reupload them from a bigger size , let me know.

Enjoy the spring.

Thanks ABWay , I do have a UV filter , so I'm gonna take it off and see the difference.

I still believe that I got a defective P1000 , because my old superzoom Canon SX50 HS (only 1200mm) never gave me a problem , photos always beyond my expectations , very satisfactory , rarely a shaky or blurred photo. But with this P1000 I find myself asking everybody for help and no matter what I try the image are always shaky or blurred ,tripod or not ,  I believe more and more that the VR is defective in my item , I never had this problem with my Canon which I still enjoy , but I was craving more telephoto reach. The photo of the cheetah was taken in the first 2 weeks of owning the P1000 when most photos were still and beautiful , afterward I didn't get still photos anymore.

In a week or 2 I'll exchange it if I doesn't give me correct photos.

Could this be a clue ?

I shot this plane with autofocus first and it looked terrible so I tried manual focus and it looks a lot better , hand held.

F.8

1/80 sec.

ISO 100

Focal length 539mm or equivalent 3000

Both

Hi Tony,
Thanks for replying , I didn't include many details because I thought that you can read the properties/exif from my images , my mistake , so now I include 2 pics of the properties of the cardinal and cheetah from PC and Phone together , you said that the tripod is the problem but the good photo of the cheetah is also handheld with a lot less light and slower shutter speed . With the cardinal the light was perfect and the settings very fast but it looks blurred by movement  ,maybe not out of focus , pay attention to the little branches all around the bird,they seem doubled as shaking , I had a very steady hand leaning on a fence and no wind. In the shot of the cheetah I held the camera high to avoid the Cheetah fence at the Philadelphia Zoo..
I heard rumors from other Nikon owners that the Nikon VR doesn't like complete stillness ,it will try to correct anyway and create a shake ,I don't know if it's true but after 2 weeks of good quality images using this camera the pics didn't come out "still" anymore ,.there always seem to be a little shake no matter what ,in daylight ,sunny , cloudy sunset ,flash etc... I don't know what to do . my fear is that it is defective and worked good only for 2 weeks ,I'm gonna try different setting soon to see if I'm missing something . I got a 5 years total warranty from Adorama so I might use for a replacement .
I include also a shot of an Owl with the tripod and the problem is still there like the cardinal.

When I went into the settings I didn't see an option to disengage the VR in the still images menu/column . It's only in the menu column of the video controls . does it sound correct ?

Please give me some advice , this is my first Nikon since digital so maybe there are some things about Nikon that I don't know . the only FF camera I own is the Sony A7 and I also have a few APSC from Sony  , Fuji and Canon .

Regards.

Taipei

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Sorry I forgot the Owl's properties .

F.8

1/80sec

Iso 100

Focal length ,503mm or equivalent 2800