Posts Tagged ‘superzoom’

Leica V-Lux 2 superzoom

September 21st, 2010

Leica announces a new superzoom compact camera, the V-Lux 2:

  • 14MP sensor
  • 25-600mm zoom
  • 11fps shooting
  • 1080p video
  • 3″ 460k dot tiltable LCD

Canon PowerShot SX30IS superzoom

September 14th, 2010

Canon announces the PowerShot SX30 IS superzoom compact camera, successor to the the SX20 IS, adding…

  • 24-840mm superzoom (35x)
  • 14 MP sensor
  • 2.7″ LCD
  • USM/VC motors for fast and quiet zooming
  • 720p HD video

The day of the Superzooms

February 2nd, 2010

Fujifilm is announcing FinePix HS10 featuring a 30x optical zoom (24-720mm!) and Olympus is introducing the superzoom models SP-800UZ and SP-600UZ with 30x and 15x zoom lenses. All cameras feature HD video recording but the HS10 also features high speed movie recording at 1000 fps.

Don’t be surprised when you can’t expect too much optical quality from a Superzoom lens