The Canon PowerShot SX60 HS is a digital ultra-zoom

bridge camera Bridge cameras are cameras that fill the niche between relatively simple point-and-shoot cameras and interchangeable-lens cameras such as mirrorless cameras and single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs). They are often comparable in size and weight ...

announced by

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on September 15, 2014. It has one of the longest zoom ranges of any digital camera. It features a 65x

optical zoom A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed-focal-length (FFL) lens (see prime lens). A true zoom lens, also called a parfocal lens, is one th ...

that covers the 35mm equivalent of 21-1365mm. It is the first Canon camera in this class that has an external

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Compared to SX50

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Review by Imaging Resource
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