Augustin Man
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I don't want to stir emotions or brand loyalties (those could be eventually be justified if someone is an employee of that brand). Then this is NOT a review of any kind, just thoughts in a rainy late afternoon with two good super zoom P&S cameras, one of them an old friend, the other an only two days acquaintance.
Now what I absolutely like at P600: the "matrix" AF, which can get everywhere on the screen in different shapes
; I have a feeling that that could be outrageous to professionals, but it reminds me of my old Oly "toys" (SP-800 and 810UZ).
What I absolutely dislike at P600: when checking the zoomed images, not only I can't go from an image to the other (have to push OK, to revert to the 1:1 size), but zooming in an image starts with a second of display blackout, then you're directly at the 3X size
Absurd!
There are many small differences: the AF format remains at the last selection to P600, but reverts to AF to SX50; to P600 there are more information on the screen, but in smaller fonts, etc. (still to be discovered )
Now enough idle talk and to the main questions (at least for me): IQ and IS. I think they are pretty the same. At the telephoto end P600 images appear darker and that is quite in accord with some graphics I saw here. I tried to have likely settings, but not hard enough (e.g. at wide end forgot Canon to RAW+JPEG, meaning native JPEG). P600 is on Vivid, D-lighting on. All images with ISO AUTO, limited to 800, hand held and SOOC, of course. At the telephoto end, three images each, selected the best, like in sport competitions
It's up to you to decide...
First my dear old SX50:
Now my dear new P600:
Thank you for looking and commenting,
Augustin
Now what I absolutely like at P600: the "matrix" AF, which can get everywhere on the screen in different shapes
; I have a feeling that that could be outrageous to professionals, but it reminds me of my old Oly "toys" (SP-800 and 810UZ).What I absolutely dislike at P600: when checking the zoomed images, not only I can't go from an image to the other (have to push OK, to revert to the 1:1 size), but zooming in an image starts with a second of display blackout, then you're directly at the 3X size
Absurd!There are many small differences: the AF format remains at the last selection to P600, but reverts to AF to SX50; to P600 there are more information on the screen, but in smaller fonts, etc. (still to be discovered
)Now enough idle talk and to the main questions (at least for me): IQ and IS. I think they are pretty the same. At the telephoto end P600 images appear darker and that is quite in accord with some graphics I saw here. I tried to have likely settings, but not hard enough (e.g. at wide end forgot Canon to RAW+JPEG, meaning native JPEG). P600 is on Vivid, D-lighting on. All images with ISO AUTO, limited to 800, hand held and SOOC, of course. At the telephoto end, three images each, selected the best, like in sport competitions
It's up to you to decide...
First my dear old SX50:
Now my dear new P600:
Thank you for looking and commenting,
Augustin
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