Nikon's New Point and Shoot Has an Absurdly Long Zoom Range — wired.com

If you want a camera lens with a zoom range of 24mm to 2000mm, you won’t find it in a DSLR. In order to get that kind of preposterous wide-angle to telephoto reach in one package, you’ll have to opt for Nikon’s new Coolpix P900 fixed-lens ultrazoom. If you do the math, that translates to an impossible-sounding 83X optical-zoom range (well, 83.33X to be precise) in a camera the size of a small DSLR. That’s plenty of reach for moon photography, and nature shots that keep you a safe distance away from that grizzly bear.

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