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Latest review of SX60

Started Nov 6, 2014 | Discussions thread
Henry Falkner
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Re: Latest review of SX60

northlondon43 wrote:

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/canon-powershot-sx60-hs-review-26459

Adrian

In New Zealand, Photo Warehouse takes orders at NZ$ 688.-.

Photo Warehouse offers a Nikon P600 for NZ$ 598.-, a Panasonic FZ70 for 498.- and a SONY HX300 for NZ$ 489.-. For perspective, all these have been on the market for at least a year.

As to SX60 softness at the far end - in the past I have been able to sharpen such images (Olympus SP-570UZ in PSE7). But I cannot UN-sharpen my pocket P&S images (Olympus SH-1). I am stuck with the white or black haloes ('Natural' setting in P mode).

I am tossing up between 1" sensor size at 20 MP and 400mm reach maximum (Panasonic FZ-1000) and 1/2.3" sensor at 16 MP and 1350mm reach 35mm equivalent. There the Canon SX60 looks quite attractive to me, since I have not seen any excessive sharpening on the sample images.

Henry

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