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INCREDIBLE ZOOM | Nikon P1000 | Ben Lomond | Scotland

The Hovering Scotsman · 2.7M views · 2019-07-14 · 8:10

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Footage shot with a Nikon P1000 superzoom camera showing extreme optical zoom on distant targets from Ben Lomond in Scotland.

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Cited as an eye-opening demonstration of how much a consumer camera can resolve at long range, relevant to privacy and surveillance threads.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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14 · 2023-10 · Recommendation

Really who cares if they can discretely take your photo out in public. You have no expectation of privacy in public and totally legal to take someone’s picture. In fact if they had say a Nikon p1000 they could very clearly take your picture from a mile away. Check out this zoom test and you can see people 3.5 miles away it will blow your mind. From a mile it would be trivial. [VIDEO]

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walrus01 · 2021-03 · Reference

Unless something dramatic changes in the field of optics, lenses and how to deal with atmospheric blur at those distances, resolving features smaller than 15-20cm from low earth orbit remains a low probability. Take a look at some youtube videos of a Nikon P1000 at maximum zoom looking through ordinary atmosphere at some distance away for an example. [VIDEO]

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IceWreck · 2021-03 · Reference

> Take a look at some youtube videos of a Nikon P1000 at maximum zoom looking through ordinary atmosphere at some distance away for an example. [VIDEO] This is unbelievable.

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