dragon49

Red-whiskered Bulbul in Miami yesterday.
 

Part of a scene - sports burst.  The camera chose the settings except for the exposure bias.  I tend to up this when shooting birds in trees.

Nikon P1000
 

F-stop f/5.6

Exposure time 1/250 sec.

ISO speed ISO-400

Exposure bias +0.3 step

Focal Length 252 mm

35mm focal length 1400

Cropped from 4608 X 3456 to 4029 X 2363.  No additional post-processing performed.

This superzoom does have its issues, but it can take some great photos.  I’m very happy with this one.

Laughing Gull in Miami - 04/06/2024.  Part of a scene - sports burst.  The camera chose the settings, as I always use these automatic modes:
 

Technical information

Model COOLPIX P1000
ISO 140
Focal length 234 mm
35mm focal length 1300
Flash did not fire
f-stop f/8.0
Shutter speed 1/500 sec

This is the original uncropped pic with no post-processing.
 

Same problems here, freezing and geting the error turn the camara on and off, which sometimes doesn't work and have to take fhe battery out. Happens a lot. Asked others with the same camara and they have the same problem. Its kind of frustrating. Even with full battery and new memory card.
I have been looking allmovee the internet and looks like this is a common problem.
Has anybody had any good solutions ?
It even bloks when just zooming and not making pictures just yet.

The P1000 is very sensitive to having the lens jostled, even the tiniest contact can bring up the error message to turn the camera on and then off.  I had this problem and was very frustrated when I first got my P1000.  Even doing things like bending down to tie a shoelace (while I use the camera with a neck strap) which often gently taps the lens against my leg brings up the error.  I've sometimes encountered the problem where I have to fully reinsert the battery, but most of the time, turning the camera off and then on fixes the problem.  

I was so frustrated at first that I considered returning the camera, but then I realized what was causing it.  Pay a lot of attention to your handling of the camera and you should be able to avoid the issue.

Ring-billed Gulll taken with my P1000:

F-stop/f/6.3

ISO 100

Exposure time 1/640th of a second
Focul Length 324 mm
 

why i ask how far where you from shore taking photo. since not sure close to river like me where i can stand or you some what far from shore. also if shooting over 3kmm you got lucky on shot unless you where at 300mm and 3k was miss print. since not there and know that camera i can only guess 

Not a misprint - the P1000 goes to a full 3000mm.  Not certain how far I was from the river.  I wasn't lucky with the shot - I'm good at finding birds when I know what I'm looking for.