Re: Canon SX70 vs SX50 — big differences?
BillBalh wrote:
I've just moved up from an sx60 to an sx70 , and while the menus are COMPLETELY different - a real new and complicated learning curve - but the big advantage I found is that it has a MUCH better manual focus. It has the old fast focus, but also a slow focus and much more precise and controllable focus via a little wheel, i.e. you can NOW focus on a bird inside a tree, next to impossible with the sx60. The only snag I am finding with that is once you have focussed on the object you want, if you change the zoom you lose control of the manual focus until you have reselected manual focus !! That seems unbelievably stupid and someone may know a get-around, but I haven't found it yet. However the manual focus is still lots better.
I don't know about the sx50 but the sx60 and sx70 have a thing called a 'Digital Tele-Converter' which gives either a 1.6x zoom or a 2.0x zoom which SAYS it allows a faster shutter than the same zoom factor via the normal zoom, but the big advantage I found is that it is not just a zoom at the top end, but a zoom at the bottom end too, i.e. for close-ups of flowers or insects it magnifies the image by up to 2.0 times, which I find very useful. Quite fiddly to set up but you can also make that Tele-convertor facility selectable via a button you don't normally use.
The sx70 has of course any other advantages developed in the last few years by Canon. It is yet another change of size of battery size tho!
For what it is worth, I like it, the sx70, and it is a little lighter too.
It has the same lens filter adapter as the sx 40 and the sx60, so if you had a close-up lens for your sx50 you will still be able to use that on the sx 70 too.
Good luck!
Bill Balharry
..Congrats on your SX70 camera!..
..glad to hear you are enjoying using it..
..as I really like my SX70 camera as well..
..Cheers, John..