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SX50 versus SX60 ~ Graininess in Videos

Started Oct 13, 2014 | Discussions thread
stevenic Senior Member • Posts: 1,459
Re: SX50 versus SX60 ~ Graininess in Videos

WalkerC wrote:

Oh oh. Not another sticky wicket.

The Canon SX50 is a 12mp camera with 24p on full-HD video.

The Canon SX60 is a 16mp camera with 60p on full-HD video.

Of course, you can optionally reduce that 60p on the SX60. But I'm becoming a bit concerned with the various "advantages" of the SX60 which we are better to not use, as they work but not well. I'm afraid that I may eventually turn every feature of the new camera off by returning it to the store for a refund.

Yesterday I made a good long video with my SX60, recording an apartment renovation indoors. The video turned out to be quite competent but very very grainy.

So I took another look at several videos I'd made outdoors with the SX60. I had previously noticed they did have a rather "flat light" appearance, as though they were a smidgen overexposed. Looking at them again, I realize that appearance seems to be from, indeed, a graininess--a subtle graininess, but it is certainly there.

Sony produced its HX100v bridge camera with 60p video "some years ago"--in 2011. That's an "old" model now. It's videos were just fine. Sales people who really "hated" Sony told me they nonetheless respected Sony's video abilities, generalizing that the company was on home-turf with its television background savvy.

So I'd been counting on 60p full-HD as a tremendous step-up with Canon's SX60, as my main interest is in bird photography. Birds very often make quick motions, such as reversing position on a twig, that are so fast that 60p would be a very nice advantage over 24 or 30. I have many Canon SX50 videos that are pretty good, but which--I thought--would be much better if taken on the SX60 at 60p.

I'm wondering whether the 16mp is the culprit. That "old" Sony was 16mp too, but its indoor videos seemed quite okay, unless they were taken in a cave.

I'll do some more outdoor video testing with the Canon SX60 today. Maybe there are a few more nifty new features I can turn off.

Interesting as I have read on birding forums that the video capabilities of the sx60 is meant to be one of its strengths especially in good light. If they kept the 12 meg and made it 60P that would of been better. However the Canon sx700 (16 meg) which I did test against the sx50 video seem to have excellent video capabilities but I only tested it in good light.

Cheers

Steve.

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