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Re: SX50 and SX60 and a minor Cosmic Curve
This evening I returned my new Canon SX60 for a full refund, as I was still within the time period to do that. Now I have only the new Canon SX50.
I just couldn't justify the $650 (including tax) that I had invested in the SX60. It was barely better than the SX50, and what was "better" was arguable.
Barrow's Goldeneye (and a Bufflehead), December 2013. Hostile photography conditions; taken during a rare Vancouver snowstorm, with wet snow impossible to keep off the extended lens barrel of my Canon SX50.
During the same day's outing, I stopped to photograph a skiff of ice on Ceperley Creek near Lost Lagoon. The Canon SX50 is not a perfect camera, but it is an excellent friend.
Except for the SX60 eyepiece, which is absolutely a thing of beauty. It was superb for viewing birds—slower to use than binoculars, but a really nice view when you found the bird. I really think some of the disappointing photo results were in relation to our recent memory of the excellent views we'd had through the eyepiece.
But prices place the SX60 here in Vancouver at about twice the sale price of the SX50. I don't see why a person would buy the SX60 for its $580 brand-new-release price. Maybe there will be a Black Friday or some such sale around Christmas, during which the SX60 will be reduced for a day or two to, what, possibly, $450 or $500. Then I might re-buy one as well. Hmm. Well, maybe for $435; we'll see.
A (Western or Eastern) Wood Pewee, Chomes, Costa Rica, October 2013. Chomes is a tiny village on the Pacific, replete with Dengue-transmitting mosquitoes and a sauna-sticky atmosphere as threatening to my Canon SX50 as the snowstorm in the other picture.
Costa Rica's Dry Season can be unrelenting. These kids are going home from the Friends' School in Monteverde, walking on the road in dust that penetrated the roadside forest 100 metres on each side by late February 2014. My Canon SX50 was covered in dust, as I walked this road for a few miles most every day.
The Canon SX60, in my opinion, excels in "not bad" pictures [cormorant, below] that are not really good, either. I've decided I'll stay with just my Canon SX50 for awhile. (Well, I have a take-anywhere Canon SX260 too. Just in case.)
Once Bill Gates said that neither Linux nor Apple were his most dangerous competitors to Windows Vista. By far the biggest competitor, he said, was Windows XP.
Double-crested Cormorant, Stanley Park Seawall, Vancouver, October 2014. Taken under much better weather conditions than all the others, this is the only SX60 photo in this group.