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issues with Canon Powershot SX40 HS batteries and zoom

Started Jan 14, 2018 | Questions thread
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Re: issues with Canon Powershot SX40 HS batteries and zoom

User4286416121 wrote:

Wish the sx "70" would come out. Better evf, af, better manual focus, and of course bird vision.

I have had a SX40, Panasonic FZ72 and currently have a G3X.

I wonder until they get PDAF on all their sensors and a greater variety of focusing zones Canon will ever get a Birds in Flight camera. The FZ72 had a dedicated focus zone button on the top and you could get a large square that covered a lot of the sky but excluded the telephone cable and was so much faster focusing than any of my Canons.

Sometimes I am tempted to ditch the G3X because operationally a FZ82 would be so much more effective as long as light is good but then the former is so capable in a wider but vague indefinable way so it is difficult. That is the problem with Canon in that you can get to like the cameras and end up with a bunch of them but never really have a clue why.

I hope Canon are looking at the fond reminiscences on the SX50 and produces a camera that manages to upgrade the whizz bang techno must have specifications and not downgrade the image quality in compensation not that the SX60 has much technical flair.

Recently the SX60 has been looking a very clumsy overpriced anachronism but they are dumping them now at present in the UK but still costing more than the FZ82.

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