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Originally Posted by Britster  |
That's an impressive new camera. Especially its HD movies are impressive.
But from purely a picture-taking perspective, I personally would get either a Digital SLR or a more compact point & shoot than that "super zoom."
The super zooms are getting better, but there's still a significant performance lag behind a DSLR in terms of image quality and creative options. They do all things reasonably well in one convenient, easy-to-carry package; but they seldom excel at any one thing (biggest exception: their video capabilities are better). Plus, they're about the size of a DSLR, so they're not particularly convenient to haul around relative to their picture quality.
Don't get me wrong, they're great for some things. With it's good image quality for its class and great zoom range, It'd be a great camera to take pictures of the family at Disneyworld or of an outdoor wedding. But once the wedding moves indoors to the reception, you'd find where these superzooms really show their faults. Their small sensors produce grainy images at high ISOs, so you'll have to use a flash indoors. You don't have to do that with a DSLR, which has lens options that can make your camera seem to "see in the dark."
Plus, for fast-moving animals like Yorkies, DSLRs will have much quicker autofocus and frame-per-second fire rates.
IMO, the better non-DSLR is something like the Canon A Series:
PowerShot A2000 IS Digital Camera
It's smaller, less expensive, and takes just as good quality of pictures as a super zoom in the vast majority of shooting situations. The only thing it lacks is the truly long telephoto reach, and a hot shoe for attaching an external flash.