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DSLR Lens equivalent cost to match SX60HS.

Started Apr 11, 2015 | Discussions thread
grimlock361
grimlock361 Regular Member • Posts: 253
Re: DSLR Lens equivalent cost to match SX60HS.
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You would need an apsc body that can autofocus at f8 and that only leaves (on the canon side of things) the 7DMII at $1800 + 100-400mm zoom at $1900-2200 and then a 2x teleconverter at $530. 400mm x 2x = 800 x 1.6 crop factor = 1280mm. I am working on putting this together myself but as you can see its very expensive. If you choose cheaper bodies you will loose autofocus with the teleconverter combo but you can go for the 800mm f5.6 at $13,000.

The quality for the price combination of superzooms like the sx50 and sx60 just can't be beat. At base iso the image quality is not that much different but the 7DMII iis faster and has much better IQ at high iso/low light. Its very hard to get good IQ above iso 800 on the sx50 and sx60 but not impossible. With good photography skills and good knowledge base of how to work within the limits of a small sensor you can produce excellent images with these cameras. Nothing irritates a nerd raging camera snob more than to produce equal or even better images with small sensor cameras. Make no mistake. DSLR and large sensors are better but smaller sensors are just not as bad as the legend would imply.

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