Canon PowerShot SX60 HS Review 2024

Canon PowerShot SX60

Canon PowerShot SX60

For many who do not wish to take care of the training curve usually related to DSLR cameras, a high-end compact makes essentially the most sense. Whereas these cameras can’t truly seize DSLR-quality photographs, they pack in a ton of options for a value that’s extra pocket-friendly.
A few of these cameras have SLR-like designs and wonderful zooming capabilities. We have now with us the Canon PowerShot SX60 HS, which is the world’s first compact digital camera with a 65x optical zoom lens. Canon additionally provides the most recent Digic 6 processor into the combo. Let’s discover out if the SX60 HS can wow us with its picture high quality.

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Design and display

Due to the actually lengthy optical zoom lens, the Canon PowerShot SX60 HS feels heavier and chunkier than most different super-zoom cameras out there at the moment, together with its predecessor the SX50 HS. It has dimensions of 127.6×92.6×14.3mm and weighs precisely 650g, which makes it heavier than just a few SLRs with primary 18-35mm lenses. This weight should not be a lot of an issue as a result of the bridge design truly makes it simpler to carry and you can be utilizing it with two fingers for capturing photographs anyway.

The SX60 HS seems to be identical to the a lot smaller Canon PowerShot SX520 HS. Its huge physique additionally features a variangle LCD that flips out sideways, and an digital viewfinder (EVF). The digital camera is generally manufactured from powerful plastic and solely the outer cowl of the lens space is roofed in aluminium. There are buttons on the lens barrel to hunt and lock focus, which help customers in framing a shot. On the highest of the digital camera there’s a built-in flash that pops up robotically in low mild circumstances. Behind it lies the speaker. The ability button, shortcut button, choice dial and mode dial are in a cluster close to the hand grip. The shutter button, which is surrounded by a zoom lever, has respectable journey. However, the mode dial feels too stiff.

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The left aspect of the digital camera has the microphone and a jack for an exterior microphone. A troublesome rubber flap protects the USB, A/V out and HDMI ports. The compartment for the battery and the reminiscence card is on the underside together with the tripod socket. Beside the LCD display on the rear one can discover the settings button surrounded by a navigation pad. Every button is mapped to a specific operate – Wi-Fi (up), show (down), flash (proper), and macro (left). Under this, there are buttons for the menu and for establishing a reference to a cellular gadget, whereas above it one can discover the publicity compensation button that additionally doubles up because the delete button.

The playback button is positioned above the LCD subsequent to the EVF. There’s a powerful rubber finger relaxation on the rear too, and beside it lie two buttons for video recording and autofocus body choice. We weren’t notably proud of the journey of all these buttons as a result of they’re flush with the physique and really feel mushy to the touch.

Each the LCD and the EVF have roughly 921ok efficient pixels on display. The three-inch LCD is brilliant, crisp and precisely saturated. Even the daylight legibility is fairly good. Whereas we respect Canon’s concept of going with an EVF, which was additionally current in its predecessor SX50HS, the over-saturated picture high quality is an enormous letdown and in low-light conditions the EVF is sluggish to answer adjustments within the focus space.

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Specs and options

The SX60 HS has a half of.Three-inch CMOS sensor that may shoot 16.1-megapixel pictures. This sensor is used even in smaller compact cameras and we had actually hoped that this digital camera would have a much bigger sensor as an alternative. Canon has applied the brand new DIGIC 6 processor which could assist a consumer seize detailed photographs even at most zoom. Talking of most zoom, the SX60 HS’s lens has a focal size vary of 21mm to 1365mm (65x optical zoom). This exhibits that aside from enhancing the telephoto finish of the lens, Canon has made it attainable to shoot wider photographs as effectively.

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The lens has a most aperture of f/Three.four on the widest and f/6.5 on the telephoto finish, which isn’t nice for a digital camera that prices as a lot because the SX60 HS does. For some purpose, Canon has shaved the highest finish of the ISO sensitivity vary all the way down to ISO 3200 on the SX60 HS, in comparison with ISO 6400 on its predecessor. Similar to the PowerShot SX520 HS we reviewed some time in the past, the SX60 HS has a setting that enables it to lock on to faraway topics utilizing the Framing Help (Lock) operate, and thereby maintain focus.

The digital camera can shoot 1080p video at 60fps in .mp4 format. Canon additionally offers the aptitude to connect with sensible units utilizing Close to-Discipline Communications protocol over Wi-Fi. Canon claims that the battery housed contained in the SX60 HS will final lengthy sufficient for roughly 340 photographs to be captured in common mode and 450 in economic system mode.

The capturing modes embody two customized modes that permit customers to retailer their very own presets. The opposite modes are Guide, Aperture precedence, Shutter precedence, Portrait, Hybrid auto, Auto, Artistic shot, and Sports activities. Aside from this the SX60 HS has a ton of scene modes, just a few artistic filters, and film modes.

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As standard, the interface is straightforward to navigate and use. There may be completely no studying curve which makes capturing with the SX60 HS a delight. Even so, we might have appreciated the bodily buttons to have had higher journey.

Efficiency

From startup to establishing a shot is definitely a extremely clean and quick expertise on the SX60 HS. In daylight, we discovered that the lens can give attention to the meant topic precisely and quickly with none hiccups. The shot-to-shot velocity can be fairly good, in daylight.

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Nevertheless issues bought troublesome in low-light circumstances, when the lens began discovering it tough to give attention to topics. Issues bought even worse after we began zooming in. It’s advisable that you simply use a tripod to shoot on the most zoom degree, as a result of we actually could not get a single non-blurry shot after we held the digital camera in our fingers.

Earlier than we get into the precise picture high quality we might urge our readers to view the photographs in full dimension (or proper click on and save them to view them no less than 50 p.c magnification) as a result of they may look deceptively good as thumbnails.

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In daylight testing, pictures had heat, pure colors that have been pleasing to the attention however we seen that the small print weren’t as sharp as these in photographs captured with different Canon PowerShot cameras we have used prior to now. Check out the picture of the canine beneath and you will discover that the digital camera tends to barely soften photographs. We additionally seen a little bit of barrel distortion across the edges of our take a look at photographs, although it wasn’t too distracting sufficient to be an enormous downside. Fortunately, Canon manages to maintain purple fringing at bay. The digital camera can go as shut as 0cm to a topic and we discovered that it did not lose particulars.

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In our stringent ISO take a look at, the digital camera captured good particulars as much as ISO 400 however something past that was nearly unusable. That really says rather a lot about what we are able to count on in low mild.

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We have been fairly dissatisfied with the low-light efficiency. As we talked about earlier, we had hassle focussing on a topic. The pictures we captured had a whole lot of noise, which does not replicate effectively on a digital camera that prices a lot. It’s stunning that even the brand new, highly effective Digic 6 picture processor cannot do a lot to salvage the scenario.

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The zoom motor just isn’t too loud, and zooms are clean. This makes video capturing fairly enjoyable. The truth that the standard of the captured 1080p video is absolutely good additionally helps. The SX60 HS’s battery truly lasted for lots greater than the 340 pictures that Canon rated it at. We managed to seize 377 photographs earlier than it died on us, which is nice.

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Verdict

The Canon PowerShot SX60 HS prices round Rs. 32,000 out there in the intervening time. That is some huge cash for a super-zoom digital camera. Wanting on the options it presents, the asking value is definitely warranted. Nevertheless, we aren’t totally glad with its efficiency, and we expect that the a lot older SX50 HS remains to be a greater purchase.

Professionals

  • 65x optical zoom lens
  • Packed to the hilt with options
  • Clean zooming
  • Good battery life

Cons

  • Common general picture high quality
  • Under common low-light efficiency

Rankings (Out of 5)

  • Construct/Design: Three.5
  • Picture High quality: Three
  • Video: four
  • Battery Life: four.5
  • Worth For cash: Three
  • Total: Three.5

Votes: 31 | Rating: 4.3

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