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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve McDonald" data-source="post: 3778702" data-attributes="member: 22915">The SX70 lens has a gripping ring around the housing and a zoom-control rocker-switch, that are not on the SX60 lens. So it is different to that extent, with new electronics and wiring added. So it's possible that other changes to the lens may have been made. Sometimes, just a small change to the position of one lens element, could correct flawed performance. Fine-tuning in functions such as back-focus and front-focus, can make a big difference. Canon has had four years and every opportunity to improve the lens. Maybe they will do that and make their customers happy? Is there any reason they would revive a line of cameras that has lain fallow for that much time and not do that little bit required to make it a better product? Maybe they put the money they saved by removing the hotshoe, into improving the lens?I'm sure Canon is well aware of the criticism of the lens performance of the SX60. Would they repeat that mistake and deliberately produce another money-losing model, which would affect their overall reputation?  Of course, I'm assuming that the company is guided by a collective rationale.</blockquote>