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Re: Fixing my Digital Camera

I took some great shots with the P900 over the years and Margie shot a lot of great stuff in Africa with hers and then mine. Heidi took a P900 to Africa and it worked great for her. So the P900 is no slouch.

As you may remember the primary reasons I do not use mine much are that it is not the best for Birds in Flight and does not shoot in RAW … I read that the new P950 and P1000 do shoot in raw and supposedly are better for birds in flight.

On Oct 10, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Janet Phillips <janet.misty11@…> wrote:


Thanks for the info incase I decide I would like a DSLR but I do love the 900.

On Oct 10, 2020, at 2:23 PM, Ken Miracle via groups.io <chukar28@…> wrote:


Hi janet.  Yes we had to do that with Margies P900 once and mine twice and that always worked … that is until she rolled hers along the floor of a safari vehicle in S. Africa … the zoom mechanism was damaged and she had to switch to mine which she had along as a back up. She sent it in to Nikon and they got it fixed. She eventually sold it and bought a DSLR an now a Nikon Z50 mirrorless with an adapter for DSLR lenses and has a Tamron 18-400 on it and loves it. Not the reach of the P900 but it is superior in just about every other way. I still have my P900 but have not used it for about a year. Guess I need to put a battery back in it and see if it works 🙂

On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Janet Phillips <janet.misty11@…> wrote:


I contacted a couple GEAS members about suddenly having trouble with the Auto-focus on my Nikon Coolpix 900 camera after 3 years of loving this camera.  Mary R. and Ceredig had good suggestions but essentially it seemed to be deficiencies in the type of camera (not a DSLR).  I did not want to send my camera in to Nikon for 3 weeks but finally called tech support.  A wonderful technician, Salvador, listened to my descriptions and gave me an estimate and the information on how to send my camera in, but he suggested we try something first:  RESET   I did not know what this was but it sounded like rebooting your computer so I was interested.  On my camera, I just had to press on the Menu button and then 9 o’clock on the large circular wheel (Multi-selector Dial) that one uses to get to categories in the Menu.  On my camera, you can scroll down to the item that looks like a wrench.  The last item on the list this brings up is Reset All.  Pressing this reset my camera to original settings so I had to make sure things like Image Size and ISO were as I wanted but my camera is back to taking pictures like it used to and it didn’t cost a penny!!  Maybe this will help one of you who are as untechnical as I am and save you lots of time and money!!

Ken Miracle
chukar28@…
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5

Ken Miracle
chukar28@…
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5

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Re: Fixing my Digital Camera

Hi janet.  Yes we had to do that with Margies P900 once and mine twice and that always worked … that is until she rolled hers along the floor of a safari vehicle in S. Africa … the zoom mechanism was damaged and she had to switch to mine which she had along as a back up. She sent it in to Nikon and they got it fixed. She eventually sold it and bought a DSLR an now a Nikon Z50 mirrorless with an adapter for DSLR lenses and has a Tamron 18-400 on it and loves it. Not the reach of the P900 but it is superior in just about every other way. I still have my P900 but have not used it for about a year. Guess I need to put a battery back in it and see if it works 🙂

On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Janet Phillips <janet.misty11@…> wrote:


I contacted a couple GEAS members about suddenly having trouble with the Auto-focus on my Nikon Coolpix 900 camera after 3 years of loving this camera.  Mary R. and Ceredig had good suggestions but essentially it seemed to be deficiencies in the type of camera (not a DSLR).  I did not want to send my camera in to Nikon for 3 weeks but finally called tech support.  A wonderful technician, Salvador, listened to my descriptions and gave me an estimate and the information on how to send my camera in, but he suggested we try something first:  RESET   I did not know what this was but it sounded like rebooting your computer so I was interested.  On my camera, I just had to press on the Menu button and then 9 o’clock on the large circular wheel (Multi-selector Dial) that one uses to get to categories in the Menu.  On my camera, you can scroll down to the item that looks like a wrench.  The last item on the list this brings up is Reset All.  Pressing this reset my camera to original settings so I had to make sure things like Image Size and ISO were as I wanted but my camera is back to taking pictures like it used to and it didn’t cost a penny!!  Maybe this will help one of you who are as untechnical as I am and save you lots of time and money!!

Ken Miracle
chukar28@…
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5

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