The Canon PowerShot SX70 HS images and specifications have leaked ahead of the official announcement. This PowerShot has been a long time coming for fans of Canon's superzooms such as the PowerShot SX60 HS.
Canon PowerShot SX 70 HS Specifications
- 21mp 1 / 2.3 sensor
- 65x optical zoom
- DIGIC 8
- 4K video
- Wi-Fi · Bluetooth
- Size: 127.1 × 90.9 × 116.6 mm
- Weight: 610 g
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Quite a conservative update.
Unless the sensor is substantially improved which I doubt.
Oh and since this is Canon does the 4K come from a crop?
I suspect the sensor will be somewhat improved and if the additional 5MP resonates in terms of quality - and DIGIC 8 will be a welcome improvement, but this is a conservative announcement even by Canon's standards.
I note the inclusion of a barrel-mounted zoom control (in addition to one around the shutter button). Otherwise, they have relocated some buttons (sensible move for the video recording button) and the grip looks a little more substantial.
The SX60 stopped being my emergency spare when the G3x was released, but I will await the G3X MkII, rather than a slightly tweaked SX60!
I wrote before, that this style of system is diffraction limited towards the long end (and IS limited in practical use) so more MPx is almost useless. almost, because the resolution converges towards the diffraction limit when the sensor resolutions goes towards infinity and the lens tends to be perfect.
A 60x zoom camera with that sensor size will be several times more expensive and several times bigger/heavier or,
it would only have 20-30x zoom for the same size.
My Kayak has three hatches.... a big sealed hatch in the front, a big sealed hatch in the rear, and a little sealed hatch just in front of me that is just big enough to fit a SX-50... Because of the lens changing problem (one hand on paddle, one hand on Camera, one hand on lens..... followed by a splash and crying) I do not take my DSLR with me.... A superzoom gives me lots of range, in a small size, and if disaster strikes and it gets ruined it does not cause financial hardship...
Possibly. But nobody ever tried. If the quality was there, and one could use it instead of a telephoto lens of the same price ($1000 range), it could be interesting.