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?