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Powershot SX20 IS Thoughts?

Started Feb 18, 2021 | Discussions thread
RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,427
Re: Powershot SX20 IS Thoughts?
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The Point and Shoot Pro wrote:

RLight wrote:

Not to sound mean, some of the older power shots, like this one, belong in the past.

If it's free, and you enjoy it, go for it. Otherwise? Nope. Not trying to be blunt or degrading, but trying to be straight as I gather you're genuinely curious.

Your iPhone, is a better tool, arguably.

I don't care about the better tool, I care about having fun with photography. IPhone is boring to use for photography

You'll find zero disagreement here; photography needs to be fun and a real dedicated camera gives you that fun.

However, it also needs to be functional, and fun, that is produce good output.

The SX20 IS certainly has reach, 560mm to be exact, no question. And is probably fun. But, at 1/2.3-inch sensor, without BSI, ADC and not even CMOS? The image quality it's going to produce, isn't necessarily going to be impressive.

Everything is a tradeoff, size, capability, fun, output, etc. The SX20 has time against it; that sensor and CPU are a weak spot hampering it's output potential and regardless of focal length, the image quality will show. I looked at some Flickr samples from it, before I made my remark this morning and if you makes you happy, great! But when you have a smartphone, which your profile says you have a iPhone 11 at that? I might suggest you come up to say a SX70 HS, to produce matching or superior output to your iPhone, but with much more reach, and still fun. It'll cost more though. Just my two cents.

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