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SX50 vs. SX60 - My thoughts (pics, too)

Started Sep 6, 2019 | Discussions thread
jshen808
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Re: Tom Verrinder Re: SX50 vs. SX60 - My thoughts. What About SX70 Thoughts?

Tom Verrinder wrote:

One of the easiest birds to photograph at this time of year in our neck of the woods are immature Swainson's Hawks. They are slow-moving and fairly tolerant of close human proximity. This guy was sitting completely still on a fence post 20 feet from the car, which was turned off. I took about 100 photographs of him, all using the RAW setting, before he flew away.

I've attached two JPEG's, one of which was produced by DPP with absolutely no editing and the second which was sharpened in DPP and edited for cover, exposure, levels, and a final late sharpening in Paint.net.

For such a big, stationary target, I would have expected much, much greater quality than this, and would have achieved that quality with the SX 50.

The only technical drawbacks that I can see to this picture is that it was shot at ISO 200 - which nevertheless should have produced a good image.

..Just a thought..

..are you using a lens filter on your SX70 camera(?)..

..because the picture looks likes it's shot either behind a veil or window..

..or could be that day there was a lot of atmospheric haze, because this was taken using approx. 1265mm (equiv.)..

..anyways, if you are using a lens filter, best to take it off, not all lens filters are created equal, some can cause the image to suffer..

..for me, I use the Hoya HD3 lens filter (on all my SX50, SX60, SX70), and works well..

..thanks for sharing & happy snapping..

..Cheers, John..

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