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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HermitIbis" data-source="post: 3336841" data-attributes="member: 128291">I forgot to mention that this C1 setting is also useful for the identification of a bird in flight. If such a bird appears, I press the "frame assist" button, so that the SX50 zooms out from 172mm to about 43mm, and start shooting. It is much easier to get a flying bird into focus, if you have zoomed out... The photo below is an example: taken at a zoom position of 43mm. Since the SX50 has a crop factor of 5.58, this is equivalent to 240mm. The result in the cropped photo isn't "good", but usually good enough for identification.</blockquote>