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Nikon P900 Successor with a 100x Zoom Lens?

May 9, 2016 By Eric Reagan

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The Nikon Coolpix P900 has an incredible zoom range of 24-2000mm (equivalent) and has been a pretty hot camera as far as point and shoot cameras go. Its successor might just up the ante if a new Nikon patent application comes to fruition.

A recently-filed patent from Nikon Japan discloses a 4.4-440mm zoom lens, which would deliver a 35mm equivalent zoom range of 24-2400mm on the P900’s 1/2.3″ sensor.

If you aren’t familiar with the range of the P900’s lens, check out the below video, which gives a good demo of the kind of reach we are talking about.

Have you tried the P900? Would you be interested in an even longer reaching zoom lens?

[via Nikon Rumors]

Filed Under: Nikon, Rumors Tagged With: Nikon, nikon rumors, P900, patent, rumor

 

Comments

  1. William Sommerwerck says

    May 9, 2016 at 7:48 am

    Remember the “power war” among Japanese hi-fi manufacturers during the ’70s?

    • Oberoth says

      May 9, 2016 at 5:58 pm

      Amen to that!

      You will barely see any difference between 2000mm and 2400mm.

      Now, if they had given it a few extra mm at the wide end that would be cool: 20-2000mm

  2. Wayne Tafuro says

    May 13, 2016 at 9:11 am

    That’s great but I would rather see them make this camera so it shots RAW as well as jpeg. I would love to have one but nit until they are capable of shooting RAW.

  3. joe1946 says

    May 13, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    I have the new Sony RX10 III with 1″ sensor and fast F2.4-F4 24-600mm eqiv lens and use my Sony a6300 with 1480mm F6.3 (2220mm eqiv ) for great 4K UHD videos of the moon. The RX10 III has 50x clear zoom if you want a 1200mm eqiv.

    • Photo says

      July 7, 2016 at 9:56 pm

      Thanks for posting those videos! Really helps with my decision making.

  4. Mel says

    May 14, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    I am more concerned with image quality above 50x than additional zoom capability.
    Also RAW although unlikely to happen anytime soon would be another plus.

  5. J Virts says

    June 2, 2016 at 6:41 pm

    The successor should have more megapixels; 16 mp is not enough.

  6. VLad says

    August 6, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    Let me make this easy Nikon:
    – 24 PM
    – 100-51200 ISO
    – APS-C sensor
    – 450-500 photos battery life
    – Weather sealed body
    – Touch screen, fully articulated
    …. keep the 83x zoom… I do not care about more than 1080p recording and I’ll pay $1’200 for it

    • Fezu says

      August 18, 2016 at 3:11 am

      83x zoom with an APS-C sensor costing $1200 ! ! !
      You are joking; Right? The lens would have to be the size and weight of an average teenager and cost upwards of $120 000.

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