Thread: Time to update

Originally Posted by StrikerNZ

Really comes down to your uses for it.. Mine was pretty much solely to be a hunting camera, so zoom and weight with HD video ability were really what I was shopping for. Interchangeable lenses a la DSLR are good for getting optimum image quality.. but it's a pain to carry multiple lenses, and good luck changing them out with dirty/bloody hands or when something pops out of the scrub just in front of you after taking a shot of the opposite ridge.

My choices were also affected by the fact I just use auto mode 90% of the time, so a DSLR would be a little wasted on me.

In the end it wasn't a hard choice and I wound up with a Canon SX50HS. 50x zoom with optical stabilisation. 1080p recording. ~600 grams I believe. Paid $300.

Want me to put up a short clip of zooming in on some fallow at 1km, just to give you an idea what a bridge camera will do?

That is pretty much my thinking. Also one of the four cameras I'm considering along with the Canon SX40 HS, Panasonic FZ70 and Panasonic FZ200. The Panasonics are winning marginally on performance but there it bugger all in it. Panasonic have faster continuous and video shooting.