Re: SX70..why all the critics? Take the SX70 challenge :)
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ANAYV wrote:
Chaplain Mark wrote:
I'm very confused by the original post...starts out discussing the SX70 and SX60, but goes on to display and discuss several photos taken with the Panny FZ80.
What is the posting actually about?
It's all in the title, Chaplain Mark.
I mention about newer folk here (I see you are new as well) , not familiar with how new cameras get criticized when first images come out, as well as when features are removed or settings not in newer camera, that previous model had.
That some of us compare the older models with the newer models, and don't like if we see I.Q. degrade (see old SX50/60 threads)... thus some negative remarks when first images show up.
Been 4 years since a newer SXxx was released..so many of us older SX50 users were hoping for same or better I.Q. from that classic Canon superzoom!
Typical, here at DPreview, to critique and dissect camera features, I.Q. , etc. . No harm meant, no reason for anyone to be offended. No personal attacks..it's just a camera
We review and compare cameras..it's in the name of the website
That's the first part of the subject title." SX70..why all the critics?"
Second part:
I mention that I have the FZ80 and was looking at the SX70...but wanted as least same I.Q. along with many better features...but thus far , hardly any images showing improved I.Q. (my opinion, and a few others)
Then I read were some were commenting that the FZ80 is not even in same class and should not be compared to SX60/70. Claims that it is inferior, and posting links to terrible shots not with EXIF data, not well representing the FZ80.
Granted it's a low end camera, much cheaper than the SX70, but it so similar with lens (both 65x optical zoom, 1/2.3" sensor cameras, with 4K video.)
FZ80 goes wide, SX70 goes longer. FZ80 known for not so great I.Q. but fast AF and operation.
So I posed a challenge (see subject title), since I would love to see images of birds and wildlife at the telephoto end from the SX70.
"Take the SX70 challenge " is the second part of the subject title.
Hope I made this easier for you to understand.
Take care
ANAYV
I totally understand how it is that new cameras (and not-so-new) get badmouthed here on DPR, especially by those members who don't own the camera being bashed and who merely repeat the wording of the negative reviews they have read.
It took me awhile to sort through those kinds of postings and "reviews" when deciding upon my G3X and G5X.
I think the part of your original post which confused me was the invitation to an SX70 challenge, which was then followed by images from the Panny instead of images or discussion of the SX70. The post somehow did not track logically for me.
Then again, that's just how my linear brain operates...!!!
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Thank You,
Chaplain Mark
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