SX730 - anyone used this?
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Re: SX720/SX730 good but A900 not so good
OpticsEngineer wrote:
I have an SX720 and A900. (SX730 will be very similar to an SX720)
I also have a Nikon P900 which is a pretty good superzoom. Lots of fun with that huge 2000 mm focal length. Pretty big camera though. Because of my positive experience with the P900 I got the A900 thinking it might be similar. Wrong. Much less control. For example no means to set the metering to be spot, center or entire sensor. No means to set ISO. No means to adjust noise reductions levels.
SX720 gives me a lot more control. And that makes for better pictures in many situations.
But the real matter is the image quality comparing SX720 to A900. Not that long ago Canon came out with the Digic7 processor and it is fully modern and the image processing it enables results in improved images. For compact cameras Nikon is still living a generation back in image processing. We were all looking for Nikon to move up to modern times with an improved image processor to be introduced with the DL series of cameras. But Nikon said they ran into problems with the image processor and cancelled the whole DL line. So it looks like Canon is going to be ahead of Nikon for image quality in compact cameras for the foreseeable future. (A P900 successor would benefit. Good camera overall but I often see image processing artifacts in its output I don't see in my SX720)
How is the image stabilization in the SX730 (or 720)? I looked at it once way back when I saw it at BBuy, but at full zoom it seemed very difficult to hold steady. I was interested in it as something to have along just for the big zoom (40x I think).
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