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  1. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    It's one of many favorites. I show it when people think that a point-n-shoot isn't worth considering for wildlife photography. Every product has tradeoffs and I realize that super-zooms have tradeoffs. But if your style is to go hiking or bicycling or just going somewhere, it's easy to bring...
  2. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Did you find the hidden "sharpness" setting that I mentioned in this thread somewhere?
  3. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    In later posts I was able to get the SX70 to perform better than the SX50. Check the whole thread through.
  4. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Besides the extra batteries I haven't purchased any accessories. I just hang it on my neck and walk or bicycle around.
  5. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    You'll definitely need extra batteries. The little one the SX70 uses lasts nowhere near as long as the battery used in the SX50. And as usual, when the battery meter starts to shows that it's not full, that really means it's almost dead. If I plan to be out a whole day I'll bring two extras with...
  6. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    I got myself a second SX70 because I'm uncertain that Canon will keep making them, if they still are and the whole market category seems saturated and I tried a Nikon Coolpix 900 once and I hated it. I'm sure that the Coolpix 1000 is even huger. So I have two good SX70's.
  7. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Cool!
  8. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    I thought I'd post a chance shot from yesterday. SX70 at maximum optical zoom and the 2x teleconverter. It was on top of a dead tree by a lake. I just happened to be driving by and got out of the car and took this from the sidewalk across the street.
  9. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    After a few weeks now experimenting, I started noticing a few things. What got me started was that when taking a photo with the SX70, the image would appear very focused in the EVF but when shown an almost instantaneous image of the photo after the shot, they almost always appeared less focused...
  10. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Issues with IQ on the SX70 are more related to what appears to be focus or shake (poor IS) than noise.
  11. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    I think that I've decided that the SX70 and SX50 can take equal quality photos. After fiddling more with the settings on the SX70 and taking about 500 side by side shots with the two cameras I'm getting about an equal number of better or worse shots from both cameras. However, it's a LOT MORE...
  12. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Well now I'm becoming discouraged. This morning under ideal lighting conditions is the sx-70 out performed the SX 50 for image quality for static objects in the Sunshine. But I've gone out every now and then with both cameras over the day and as the day is gone on the differences become closer...
  13. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    The SX70 arrived yesterday evening and I spent some time in the menus trying to set it up similarly to how I have the SX50 set up. Specifically turn-on settings on C1 optimized for no-fiddle center focusing and metering on a thing at the the very far end of zoom, like a bird on the post 50 feet...
  14. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    My SX50's are getting really old now so for my birthday I ordered one of the last few New (not refurb or used) SX70's I could find on Amazon. I chose the SX70 over competitive Sony and Panasonic because I don't think I could live without the snap-back seek feature that I think that only Canon...
  15. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Thanks. Those reviews from SX40 users are helpful. I had the Sx40 before the SX50. I had an SX30 before the SX40. The SX40 was very nice with excellent IQ. The SX50 as worse in low light but just as good or better in adequate light and extra zoom was worth it. I know that the SX60 had lower IQ...
  16. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    I had tried HQ Burst mode on the SX50 early on. It created far too many photo than I was willing to sort through. It took a lot of the fun out of it. Besides, it confounds my filing system. I batch rename all my photos by time year month day hour minute second such as "2019 01 02 11 12 34.jpg...
  17. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    I don't know if anyone ever figured it out but there was something different about the digital teleconverter and standard digital zoom. I have not been able to see any degradation of IQ using the teleconverter. How it works is a mystery. But it's an essential tool. I think it's likely but not...
  18. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    I'm still very torn. Don't get me wrong. I want the SX70 to be better than my SX50. I want to upgrade these old SX50's that I have. But.... Looking at your snowy owls, I compared to the attached photo of red-shouldered hawk that I took with the SX50. I'm certain that I took this at the SX50's...
  19. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Thanks. It's hard to say for sure but I would not be surprised if the SX50 at max optical and with the digital teleconverter at 1.5x would do just as well or better.
  20. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Page 208 of the manual says that the AE botton or Framing Assist Lock button can be set to other functions but the manual doesn't list the available functions that can be tied to them.
  21. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Reading the manual I see that when using Framing Assist Seek, the SX70 does what the SX60 did and darkens the area outside of the original frame. This makes it harder to refind the bird! Stupid. The SX50 does not darken outside the original frame. That was one reason, but not the most...
  22. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Richard's blog has encouraged me to read the SX70 manual. One think I can't find is the equivalent of the "s" wildcard button on the SX50. It's assignable to several setting and I use it to toggle the digital teleconverter. I see that the SX70 does have the digital teleconverter but I don't see...
  23. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    That is encouraging. It makes me wonder when I was trying the SX60 vs SX50 if the poor IQ of the SX60 vs the SX50 was an electronics focus issue instead of a lens physics issue. It will be very interesting once you are able to do the static objects comparison between the SX60 vs SX70.
  24. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Thanks for posting that. Have you been able to compare your old SX60 vs the SX70 in terms of image quality at maximum optical zoom. Perhaps static objects perhaps 20-30 feet away as bird might be? If so does the SX70 provide any improvement in image quality in such a situation?
  25. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Thanks. Not a bad review but still it's the side by side against the SX50 that I need. The photo of the ship was impressive but again, could the SX50 have done just as well? I don't know anything about optics and the physics of it all. That ship was likely several kilometers away. Birds are...
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