03-30-2015, 12:29 AM
hal wrote:
[quote=mrlynn]
I'm impressed with the long, hand-held results in fading light. I assume you can credit the Image Stabilization as well as your steady hand.
Have you looked into the SX60 at all? I was going to go for one this spring, until I saw negative reviews compared to the SX50. Now I'm not sure. Next month we should be able to get out on our river (temps still 30s and 40s).
Neat waxwing and yellow-legs!
/Mr Lynn
Thanks all. Yes, the sharp images are due to my practiced steady hand and the image stabilization in equal parts. Before the SX40, IS wasn't good enough for me to even try these shots (and they were too far away anyway). RE the SX60 - the price is too high. I need for it to get to the $350 range for it make sense for me. I saw the negative reviews too, but I only care about sample photos and my go-to is Steve's Digicams. LONG rambling reviews and at the end, a long series of sample images and gratefully, they always use the same subject for their zoom tests. And I gotta say, those samples look great! Check out the zoom photos of the library: http://www.steves-digicams.com/camera-re...s-332.html
Those images look sharp. But I keep coming back to this head-to-head comparison (of 8 superzooms), where the SX60 at maximum zoom came in worse than not only the SX50, but several of the others as well:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/be...2014-A.HTM
The examples are pretty damning. But that's for another thread; didn't mean to divert attention away from your excellent birds.
/Mr Lynn