Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

Looking at the specifications for Canon’s new PowerShot SX50 HS may leave you thinking that you have opened the pages of some futuristic fantasy: a compact camera with a zoom lens that covers a range equivalent to 24mm up to 1200mm with a digital zoom doubling this figure! Well specifications don’t take pictures; photographers do, if they have the right camera. Is this the right camera?

Camera companies love ‘world’s best’ labels, no matter whether they truly are ‘world’s best’ or merely biggest, smallest, longest, widest, quickest, smartest … or whackiest! However, it’s hard to ignore Canon and its description of the PowerShot SX50 HS as possessing the ‘world’s largest optical zoom range in a compact camera.’ Simply because, at time

Canon's superzoom bridge packs a whopping 50x zoom

Is the Canon SX50 HS the ultimate mega-zoom camera? Read our review to find out! (It's pretty darned good...)

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Canon's most powerful super-zoom camera to date comes with a 50x optical zoom lens and is the first in its class with raw file capture.

As you may have noticed, the 'Megapixel Wars' have calmed down a bit in recent years. That doesn't mean that camera manufacturers haven't found something else to drive up to absurd levels. In the case of 'big zoom' cameras that thing is, of course, how powerful the lens is. Remember a few years ago, when 12X lenses were considered a lot? Since then we've gone through 18X, then 24X, and 30X. Things really started to get crazy over the past year, with Nikon releasing their Coolpix P510, which has a 42X lens. Then Canon did what I never thought I'd see: announce the PowerShot SX50 HS ($479), which has a whopping 50X, 24 - 1200 mm lens.

The Canon PowerShot SX50 HS super-zoom camera has an astonishing 50x lens with a massive focal range of 24-1200mm. The Canon SX50 HS also offers a 12 megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor, 2.8 inch vari-angle LCD screen, electronic viewfinder, full manual controls, RAW format support, 10fps burst shooting and full 1080p HD movies. Read our detailed Canon PowerShot SX50 HS review complete with full-size JPEG, RAW and video samples to discover if it's the only camera you'll ever need...

The SX50 HS packs one of the longest zoom lenses currently available and has some very good photo quality to back it up.

Much like the twilight hovers between evening and night, so too does the SX50 HS occupy a distinctive space of its own between compact cameras and DSLRs.

Expert review of the Canon PowerShot SX50 HS digital camera with sample JPEG and RAW photos, test shots, videos and more.

The Canon Powershot SX50 HS is a remarkable camera with a 24-1200mm (yes, 1200mm) lens. Not only that but it offers RAW format image capture, a high speed (HS) mode which can shoot at 12fps and 1080 HD video. The image quality is good, even at extreme telephoto settings and the IS system gives remarkably good image stabilization

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Canon SX50 HS is a 12.0MP Small Sensor Superzoom camera with a 1/2.3-inch sized BSI-CMOS sensor and 24-1200 mm F3.4-6.5 lens. Read our SX50 HS review to find its pros and cons.