Once again I took some comparison photos with my Nikon Coolpix P900 and my Sony DSC-HX400V, both high zoom – the Nikon offers 83x zoom and 16MP while the Sony “only” offers 50x zoom and 20MP. The Sony is also a more recent design and I’d expect it to be better.
However once again in most of these comparison photos, the Nikon is better for me – these combo photos all have Nikon on the left, Sony on the right. There’s no editing for exposure / color / etc, just the necessary cropping/pasting to combine the images.
First, here’s a photo of a hawk in a tree in the distance; you probably would not spot it if I hadn’t added the arrow:
Now let’s go to high zoom from the same spot, and then crop to have mostly just the hawk; for me the colors of the bird are better in the Nikon:
Next the bird moved so I took another pair of photos – in this comparison the Nikon is over-exposed while the Sony I’d say is a bit under-exposed (I could edit these for actual use):
Finally, I switched to taking photos of a nearby flower – in both cases I zoomed in to just the flower; the leaves are perhaps better in the Sony, but the flowers are over-exposed:
I cropped to include just of the flower and part of the leaf; for me, there’s again more definition in the Nikon image:
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