Not only known as a producer of photography products, Nikon had an important role in NASA when providing the first DSLR for the space shuttle since 1991. The space realm was touched again when they released Nikon D810A for the stars explorers. Indeed Nikon D810A was a niche product, but interestingly, some capabilities of Nikon D810A are now relegated to the Nikon Coolpix line.
Nikon Coolpix P900 is a superzoom camera, with furthest zoom
bridge. It has a magnification ratio of 83 times and a maximum focal length at
2,000 millimeters. Indeed presenting a figure is not enough, luckily a nature
photographer named Lothar Lenz managed to show how strong the 83x zoom lens in
a video. It turns out that Coolpix P900 could capture the surface of moon for
people on the earth.
Since Lenz uploaded his video at the end of March, the video
popularity continues to increase. In a thread on Reddit, a lot of photographers
express their admiration. The reason is simple, the earth and moon has a
distance of about 384 400 kilometers, but the camera can capture images of
craters on the moon without the help of a special instrument, and this is a
special achievement for DSLR camera.
Lothar Lenz utilized a combination of optical zoom and
digital zoom of 166 times via Digital Fine Zoom to see the moon closer and
clearly. At the 24 millimeters, the brightness level of the moon resembles to
the color of clouds that surround it. When the video continues to spin, the
moon gets bigger and clearer, and you can see the craters on the moon’s surface
- just like photograph that's produced by NASA.
Although the sensor is small and the video is not too sharp,
but Nikon Coolpix P900 is able to present special detail. Nikon Coolpix P900
produces superb range and it makes the moon seems to move, in fact this is an
optical illusion of the earth's rotation effect.
Of course, this achievement can't be achieved without the
support of internal components such as sensors. Nikon Coolpix P900 carries a
16-megapixel CMOS sensor size of 1/2.3-inch, which is combined with optical
vibration reduction technology. Nikon uses Zoom-NIKKOR ED lens, with a maximum
aperture of f/2.8, and moves to f/6.5 at the full zoom condition. In those
circumstances, the lens makes the camera twice longer.
You can see the video created by Lothar Lenz below; make
sure you watch it in full-HD resolution and in full screen mode in order to
obtain the clearest picture.