Canon PowerShot SX50 HS: Not your average compact
By Ben Boswell - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Camera Review| Introduction | Measurement | Comparisons | Conclusion |
Sensor Performance
Remarkably, given the price and the list of specifications, the SX50 HS scores well among its peers.
Among the category of compact and high-end compact cameras with sub 4:3 sensors this Canon rates 10th in DxOMark’s testing. There are a couple of cheaper cameras higher up the scale, the Canon Powershot S95 and S100, but neither of these has anything like the range of zoom capability. The overall score of 47 is good. Color depth, shown by the Portrait Score and Dynamic range shown in the Landscape Score are also pretty good. Low light ISO is not great, 179 ISO is a long way behind the best in class, but it is a similar figure to most of this type of camera.
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Added by HNEPLEX |
January 17
Great sensor but the max. aperture of the lens...
This would be a fantastic bridge camera if the optics were faster. Max. aperture "only" f/3.4 @24mm - f/6.5 @1200mm.
Assuming the max. aperture grows linearly when zooming in, you get f/5 @600mm. Panasonic FZ200 has f/2.8 @ 600mm! This means 2 2/3 EV advantage, in other words shooting FZ200 @600mm f/2.8 & ISO400 would mean @600mm SX50 f/5 & around ISO 1300! That high ISO will destroy the image badly. Of course, you cannot enjoy the long end of the zoom 600mm - 1200mm with FZ200... Reply | Read all replies for this comment |
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Added by Mikedie |
January 22
Re: Great sensor but the max. aperture of the lens...
Well, the f2.8 of the FZ200 sounds better than it is in reality.
Compare to the SX50, the noise performence of the FZ200 is much worse. For example, when you zoom to 600mm with the FZ200 in F2.8 iso100 and you have.. lets say a shutterspeed of 1/120s ... you just can put the SX50 in ISO400 easily and still have the same noise performence as the FZ200. The very good noise performence of the SX50 compare to the FZ200 is kind of an equalizer to the constant aperture of the FZ200. The SX50 delivers a better imagequality in general. i would say the best of all bridge/megazooms so far. in addition.. iso1600 is still very good usable on the SX50(especially in raw).. on the FZ200 its total crap. Reply |
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Added by fashaoding |
January 17
well done!
great performance for a small cmos!
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