crazyfingers
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I wonder if the Sony HX100 will have better IS than the Canon SX30. It's important at long zooms.
For various reasons my choice is now between the Canon SX30 and the Sony HX100. I've ruled out the Fuji and Panasonic superzooms.
I'm attracted to the Canon's 35x zoom but the Sony 30x is still a step up from my Nikon P100 26x zoom. My experience with Canon Pocket cameras have been very positive so I guess I have an experience bias there in favor of Canon.
Alternatively I don't like Sony as a company but the features of the HX100 seem attractive. 10 full res shots per second beats Canon's 1 and I can see using that.
The Sony provides no specs on shots per battery charge whereas canon says 400 with the EVF.
I strongly suspect that both will be an improvement over the Nikon P100 but what I really need is better spot focus to tell the bird from the bush or tree that it's in. It appears to me that Nikon's real "spot" is an order of magnitude or more larger than the "spot" in the EVF.
And so I wait for the HX100 to be released to read actual usage reviews. But I hardly expect that reviews will talk much about the specific focus need that I mentioned.
And who knows how the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear problems in Japan might change shipments for any of the camera manufacturers. I hope Japan bounces back. I've been there over 20 times and have friends and customers there. They are good people.
For various reasons my choice is now between the Canon SX30 and the Sony HX100. I've ruled out the Fuji and Panasonic superzooms.
I'm attracted to the Canon's 35x zoom but the Sony 30x is still a step up from my Nikon P100 26x zoom. My experience with Canon Pocket cameras have been very positive so I guess I have an experience bias there in favor of Canon.
Alternatively I don't like Sony as a company but the features of the HX100 seem attractive. 10 full res shots per second beats Canon's 1 and I can see using that.
The Sony provides no specs on shots per battery charge whereas canon says 400 with the EVF.
I strongly suspect that both will be an improvement over the Nikon P100 but what I really need is better spot focus to tell the bird from the bush or tree that it's in. It appears to me that Nikon's real "spot" is an order of magnitude or more larger than the "spot" in the EVF.
And so I wait for the HX100 to be released to read actual usage reviews. But I hardly expect that reviews will talk much about the specific focus need that I mentioned.
And who knows how the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear problems in Japan might change shipments for any of the camera manufacturers. I hope Japan bounces back. I've been there over 20 times and have friends and customers there. They are good people.