BestSellers Canon PowerShot SX50 HS 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 50x Wide-Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom

 customer reviews

My wife asked me to help her search for a new camera. Before the SX50 HS we tried the Nikon P510, the Fujifilm HS30EXR, the Panasonic FZ200, and the Canon SX40 HS. The others are all nice cameras, but overall, for the money, features, picture quality, and ergonomics, the prize went to the SX50 HS.

I was concerned about the slower lense speed of the SX50 HS, but in repeated test pics taken with all five cameras, this unit provided pics as good or better than the rest.

Granted, the manual zoom on the HS30EXR is really nice and the F2.8 aperature capability across the entire zoom range on the FZ200 will be an advantage in certain low-light situations, but we haven't encountered any situation in a month's worth of testing that we couldn't get a great picture with the SX50 HS. And while I think all five cameras give nice pictures in most of the scenarios we shoot in, when comparing pics, we found the image quality from the SX50 HS to be better across the board--especially when cropping and enlarging.

I'm not putting any of the other cameras down--any one of them will serve a broad range of customers very well. We just think that across the board, the SX50 HS is the best for our needs.