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I'm changing my ideas on this after my last trip. Had sx50 and Leupold 60x spotter with a phone. Phone through scope was getting WAY better shots than my camera silentscope could chuck up a pic of...

I'm not a photographer but I'm guessing Sony has better glass than the Panasonic, happy to be proved wrong

Yeah sx50 is the one I got. As your video shows can tell a hind from a stag at a km, maybe not tell how many points but gives you a good idea

$500 will get you a camera with 50 optical zoom, take a photo using the tripod and then digital zoom from there. Good to around a km