Camera comparison

Friday the 13th gave me a good chance to test the bazooka (Canon 55D with Sigma 150-500mm) against the new superzoon (Canon Poweshot SX60HS).

The pictures here are uncropped

Superzoom

Bazooka

And these pictures have been slightly cropped



Powershot

Bazooka

 

And some pictures in terrible light of distant Ruff and a Dunlin. Both pictures are uncropped but as you see I have magnified a selection of each picture.

 

Powershot

Bazooka

So there is not much in it although the bazooka definitely under good conditions gives better quality pictures (see my recent pictures of the R-b Fly taken with the different cameras on different days) but with birds at some distance the superzoom often offers possibilities for a record shot that the bazooka may not have given.

The difference in size of the two cameras though makes the superzoom a much more birder friendly camera