You need a superzoom camera… You know you wanna’

It’s like this. There are some great photos you just can’t get without an extended zoom lens. You may not think so, but even majestic scenic vistas can be included in this elusive category.

Say you’re out with your standard lens that has a maybe 3X zoom factor. You spot a wonderful shot in the distance, like Toronto’s famous, ‘Scarborough Bluffs.’ You snap an exposure and it looks like this.

Gee, you think, I really want to feature some of the intricate sculpturing of those bluffs and not all that lawn. So you rack the standard lens up to full zoom and what you get maybe only looks like this.

Still not the fantastic shot you had in mind.

So you figure, no problem. I can just keep walking until I get close enough to frame that sculptured grey cliff with the trees on top the way I want.

You walk and you walk. But things aren’t working out the way you had hoped. You hadn’t counted on all the shrubs and other vegetation that have grown up around the base of the cliff. By the time you get close enough for a great image, this is all you can see through the lens.

Bummer!

With the Canon SX60 HS and its superzoom 65X lens, however, the solution is both obvious and second nature. Instead of leaving that first distant location where you imagined the perfect photo, you just extend the zoom lens. You use the zoom lever to nudge the servo motor that extends the lens. First you try a little bit longer, then a little bit shorter, until you get exactly the right framing through the electronic viewfinder. Then slowly and firmly you press the shutter release.

Wow! Now your photo looks like this. That’s more like it. Perfect… just the spectacular way you imagined it would look.

A superzoom! Give it some thought. You know you wanna’, right?