For the test I have taken shots of my bird feeders and from the single spot in my living room were I take all my bird feeder photographs. The feeders are between 10 yeards to 15 yards away from the camera's position. Where I AM ABLE TO, I use a First Horizon 4256 tripod which is very expensive to buy and intended for astronomical work.
With the tripod its simply fantastic IF you are very tall. Highly recommended by the late Sir Patrick Moore and will not bloody move in all but the strongest gale force winds. You had better have use of a car though!
The exact same settings were used and all photographs reduced in size to 30% that of the originals which were on MAXIMUM resolution of both cameras. FLASH OFF!
EDIT: Right two things of note is that first off I updated the firmware previous to the problems from v1.0 to v1.1. Secondly the camera is now focusing and beeping and the repeating the process before it lets you take a picture which renders the camera utterly useless...
Also every time it is in AUTO MODE I have noticed the Macro symbol is up regardless of the distance away of the TARGET SUBJECT which would explain a great deal of the out of focus shots as they NEVER occur on MACRO, or close up photos!
SO I am now wondering if indeed Argos, possible in desperation, have caught the Shop Direct BUG?!?!
Can you buy anything that works in the UK at the moment?!
I cannot ruddy believe this is now happening with my beloved Nikon after being suspicious of the FIRST ONE I BOUGHT?!
Funny as I thought that this one might highlight oddities with the other being a problem I certainly did not expect to buy one NEW from Argos and walk out the door with it only to have a series of problems within 48 hours?!
Jesus Christ!! This happened as I pulled the box out of the cupboard after thinking about this Argos SEAL over the top lid front edge of the box?!
LMAO!!!
So first up the Nikon Coolpix L810
Siskin SHOTS
Now the Nikon S8200
Goldfinch Shots
Now isn't that strange?! On taking the Siskin shots, apart from them being of not great quality, I had genuinely assumed that, yes OK first impressions, the Zoom of each camera (first one 26x and second one 14x) that there was not a big difference in the two?! Despite the help of what I think is a bigger monitor screen on the L810!
I can see now. however, that even with a reduced size of the images I am currently looking at while I type this that there IS a difference in the zoom between the two...
...but still with going from 14x to 26x not as much as I was expecting in all honesty. I knew that 36x Olympus Camera I lost out on would have been more fitting, it was £98?!
The Nikon equivalent, the P510 or P520, is in the region of £399 but I thought I saw it cheaper somewhere on my travels, but not Argos as that is the £399 price.
Still there is the rather big issue of having a series of photographs, nearly HALF I took, that I KNEW were blurred despite the camera claiming it was focused and the reticules going green and beeping and not flashing red when NOT focused.
If this is an issue of the operating temperature I was using it at, though this is still a big problem in itself, then fair enough as it was sub zero but a few degrees with a colder wind chill. But it still should not be misinforming the user of being focused when it is not?!
Oddly the box was not shrink wrapped when it was handed to me and had an Argos Sticker across the seal so I am now suspicious now I have remembered that.
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