Looking for new cameras for my field guys, they need a gps equipped camera that gives good resolution, clearly seeing 1.5 metet at 300m. These are used for cell tower inspections and the Ant are roughly 1.5m long and radios are .75m long.

I use my nikon with a 300mm lens and it works well but I would rather not but them slrs.

Also image stabilization would be nice.

Price limit - $500

looking at Nikob cool pix S9700 16mp with 30x zoom....but not sure if it would work?

This will fit your needs perfectly. I love mine and the zoom is amazing.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...6mKyP6oaAvMVEALw_wcB

Jim

Nikon 3400

Used Nikon D3400 with 70-300mm lens (which with the APS crop factor gives 450mm equivalent). Set the camera up with a saved custom function to high ISO and a shutter speed of 1/500th, with a center focus point only. Teach them to set it on that custom function and to use the center focus point to target the antenna. Not sure on GPS function on this camera model, though.

Probably one of the few times where I think a super zoom compact bridge camera makes alot of sense.

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
Used Nikon D3400 with 70-300mm lens (which with the APS crop factor gives 450mm equivalent). Set the camera up with a saved custom function to high ISO and a shutter speed of 1/500th, with a center focus point only. Teach them to set it on that custom function and to use the center focus point to target the antenna. Not sure on GPS function on this camera model, though.

That's what I used...no gps

Sorry its too not monkey proof....point click is all they can operate

See if it's compatible with the Nikon GP-1 GPS receiver module. I've never used it, and it might complicate holding it a bit, but it'll make your current equipment work for your updated requirements.

Sony has a new digital SLR type camera with one hell of a lens...Zeis. I messed with it this past weekend. A friend who is a professional photographer bought it.... I think it has an up to 300mm zoom...not sure of the cost.... I think it is an Rx10.

I was thinking if you are climbing those towers I would like something a little lighter though than a Digital SLR. I use for my work.. up on roofs, under houses and in fireplaces a Nikon coolpix AW110... which is water proof down to something like 60ft.... so when it gets dirty you just wash it off and you don't have to worry about if it's raining or sweat.

The Nikon 3400 weighs less than a POUND. Light enough?

It can be left on AUTO to take very nice digitals. Unless the monkeys move it from AUTO it should work fine....set up properly it will even work fine in the other modes as well.

You know, I was asking this very question to another TA member who had posted some wonderful pictures that were taken in a darkened church. His were lovely, and mine never came out well.

So I asked him what kind of camera he had--all his pictures (both in and out of churches--were quite wonderful. I wanted to buy a camera like he had.

And as it turned out, he had an identical camera to my own. Same year, same model, same everything.

But..how..why...was my next query.

Sometimes it is the human element that is the biggest factor in taking good photos. This member said he regularly took rotten photos with his camera when he first owned it, and asked a local photographer to give him some tips. "Have you read your manual yet?" The fellow asked. No, he had not. "That's problem one." said the photographer, and took off.

There are a lot of good articles on taking better photos on the internet, and a lot of info in your manual. Before you buy a better camera, work on making yourself a better photographer. Either way, you win.

Good luck!