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7. I don't know if it meets all your requirements, but for bird photography, I followed the advice

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat May 21, 2016, 03:55 PM

May 2016

found here:

http://stokesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/canon-sx-50-hs-for-bird-photography-i.html

I am very much NOT a "real" photographer. My main purpose was to record what I see so that I can look it up in the bird book later, or just the usual casual photography reasons. Freezing the beating wings of a hummingbird? LOL. I'll be happy if I can get some hummingbirds to come to my garden and maybe getting an occasional half decent photo.

But I saw this camera recommended in a bird group on Facebook and then the blog post linked above, so decided that was good enough for me. I'm thrilled with the camera.

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