Nikon DF-M1 Dot Sight for COOLPIX P1000

I use this with my super-telephoto for bird photography. Makes it much quicker to get the bird in the viewfinder. Put the dot on the bird, look through the viewfinder and shoot. If the bird isn't there, either you moved or the bird hopped away! If neither of you move, the bird WILL be there.I like it so much that when, at the end of my first week with it, I forgot it in the car, I left the camera with my wife and walked all the way back out to the car to get it. It makes that much difference in getting the camera onto the small warblers I was photographing that day.

hard to know how to use it. Will have to look up on YouTube. The instructions are in super tiny print in many different languages, folded in lots of ways like a map. Not very helpful.

Since I like the long range on my Nikon CoolPix P1000 and knowing from prior Nikon experience that long range moving target acquisition can be difficult. I read about this and am impressed. It uses a available battery size, fits in the shoe and is adjustable instinctually when first aligning it to your camera viewfinder display. Two colors, three different dot shapes and brightness control along with the cool james bond popup activation, make this a serious consideration for long distance eye relief when trying to get and keep subjects in the lense.

I bought a new Nikon Coolpix P1000 superzoom camera and had trouble tracking birds and other distant objects while using the zoom. Simply mount this little beauty on your camera's hot shoe. It will give you a wide-angle viewing field in which you can place a red or green lighted dot on the far-off object. Track the stationary or moving object(s) with the dot and you're all set to capture the shot you'd likely miss with the zoom alone. The Dot Sight even provides you with three styles of dots, and you can adjust their brightness. I was reluctant to spend so much money on something that hadn't yet been reviewed on Amazon, but I'd buy it again in a heartbeat!

This is way to bright even at it’s dimmest mode. Ok in bright daylight but in woods for birding it will be to bright. A little loose in hot shoe but large thumb ring makes it somewhat easier to snug down. Still need to calibrate often. Adjustment knobs on side are easy to use but also easy to accidentally move.

Fits perfectly in the hot shoe on my Nikon Z50 and P950 cameras. Helps me easily find and track birds in flight when my lens is zoomed to the limit. Sighting in is quick and easy. Target stays accurate as long as I don’t bump the sight too hard with my forehead. This device helps me get shots I would have missed and improves my keeper rate.

Fundamentally this allows me to have the zoom in the 2000-3000 mm and line up on an object to take a shot or video. So in that regard it does the job, however , it’s expensive and for this price and with the Nikon brand I expected something a bit better made. The “dot” you see isn’t sharp , it’s got multiple reflections that combine in a strange way to make a fuzzy “dot”. Also , there is nothing to line it up with in the sight, so you need to train your brain to treat this like an aperture sight and centre the dot in the square. If you don’t do this “centering” you won’t see your object on the camera view screen. The pop up part feels flimsy and the slide switches feel cheap. It really does fee like an accessory you need to handle with kid gloves , I’m not sure how long it will last !

WOW-WOW-WOW-WOW I shoot with the 500 F-4. I seldom found the target with it moving and my wife got all the shots with her 300-f-4. My first time using the Nikon dot scope I was finding the target!!!!! If something happened to my dot scope I would immediately get another one. This is a must have with all big lens if you are trying to capture a moving target. Needless to say I'm one happy camper. Easy to adjust and gives great success.