The long-awaited Canon Powershot SX70 HS looks to be the next camera announced by Canon. The Canon superzoom compact camera has been wanted for years from lots of shooters out there.
There are no specifications at this time, but they should start leaking out in the near future.
Birders who don't want to carry 7lbs of gear on them. Amazing little cameras for people who mostly use Binos on their trips.
Idiotic comment. Here’s an entire website shot with “that sort of camera”: http://azdragonfly.org/
When you just need to record something, and it's well recognizable in the photo, even if it's "poor" from a pure photographic perspective, some cheaper and lighter equipment could be all that you need.
A lot of people in wildlife do, its more convinient to get good video of animal behaviour(good light conditions) with a bridge camera than it is to do with a Slr with telephoto lens attached.
I sneaked an SX50 passed security into a lecture and got this. It's quite a useful camera but somewhat limited for birding and wildlife.
Well then, why don't you get outdoors and obtain an exquisitely detailed image of a one-inch-long damselfly with your phone and post it for us? That "cludgy" SX60 kicks your phone's ass for that purpose.
Are you really comparing a phone with a fixed 28mm ish lens with a superzoom? That's like saying: Why they manufacture buses anymore because they are cars these days which are smaller, faster and can take you anywhere just like a bus.
