Price: $699.99 - $649.00
(as of Nov 21, 2024 08:08:16 UTC - Details)

With Canon's power shot SX70 HS digital camera, you will zoom like never before to see craters on the Moon, wildlife from afar and your child's face on a crowded school stage. The power shot SX70 HS gives you the reach to capture it all. The camera's astonishing 65x optical zoom (21mm-1365mm) wide-angle lens with optical image stabilizer combine tremendous flexibility with portable ease. A 20.3 Megapixel High-Sensitivity CMOS sensor and Canon's latest DIGIC 8 image Processor together create the Canon HS system for excellent low-light performance. Advanced technology including zoom framing assist and intelligent is help you track and capture clear, steady long shots. Shoot realistic 4K video and 4K time-lapse movie. Quickly share everything you capture. The power shot SX70 HS is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled with an EOS-like user interface design.
Powerful 65x optical zoom
203 Megapixel CMOS sensor and DIGIC 8 image processor
4K video and 4K time-lapse movie
039-Type Approx 236-million dot, OLED EVF
Use the EOS Utility Webcam Beta Software (Mac and Windows) to turn your compatible Canon camera into a high-quality webcam
Reviewer: CTA
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Camera
Review: A lot of camera for the $$$, great photos, fast, easy to use, solid quality - always had good luck with my Canon products.

Reviewer: Music Enriches Life
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My friends are really loving my new higher quality pictures
Review: We bought this camera for a safari we were planning to take this fall. Unfortunately, that had to be delayed. On the plus side this is giving me more time to learn the camera. I’ve been very impressed with the zoom capabilities and I’ve gotten some delightful pictures of butterflies on the neighbor’s bushes and hummingbirds on our feeders. The camera is pretty quick to learn and the auto feature works well. My only complaint is I wish it worked better in lower light conditions, especially on high speed shots, but I know that the shutter speed/iso trade off is always a challenge, especially in a fixed lens camera. So th at is what I am working on most, seeing what settings will work at dusk and dawn and how slow I will have to make the shutter speed recognizing that I will sacrifice the stop action effects that a high shutter can get me.

Reviewer: OEJ
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fastest big zoom in the West
Review: The short story: This is a point-and-shoot with a VERY long zoom. It won't give you image quality of a high-end DLSR with a crystal-clear 1200 mm zoom, but it's less expensive and much handier. Four stars because the optics and image quality aren't excellent, but they're pretty darned good.------------This camera replaces a Canon Powershot SX60HS bought 11 years ago. I'm not a even a semi-pro photographer, I am just a snapshotter; that said, I love this camera. It will NOT take images of the quality one would get with a high-end DLSR and a pro-quality zoom, but I can carry it in one hand while hiking and bring it up fast to catch a bird on a tree limb before it flies, or a lizard pausing momentarily under a bush. The big zoom brings distant subjects close, and with "pretty-good" resolution. In fact, the SX70 gives much better image quality than my old SX60. The peephole viewfinder on the SX60 never worked well for me, so I always had to use the LCD screen, but the SX70 works well with peephole or screen.Judging by my experience with the SX60, I do not expect this camera to be an all-weather, any-abuse device (get an Olympus TG Tough for that) -- I damaged my SX60 by using it unprotected in dripping-wet humidity, and eventually the image-stabilization function went crazy and had to be disabled. That said, I do expect the SX70 to be reasonably sturdy under considerate usage (though I notice that the barrel holding the zoom is plastic on the SX70 instead of aluminum as on the SX60).The camera has the standard threaded socket for a tripod mount, though if the tripod requires a plastic shoe to attach to the camera then the shoe will block battery-and-SD card access. There is a jack for an external mic (necessary if shooting multimedia outdoors, as the internal mic loves wind noise). There are also ports for USB and HDMI.The supplier shipped the camera along with one battery, a battery charger, a shoulder strap, and a lens cap. It did not have an owner's manual; that can be downloaded in PDF online.Edit: On my second outing with the camera I found that taking the lens cap off sometimes pulled the small plastic ring around the lens off as well (this is the ring marked "Canon zoom lens 65 X 15"). Reattaching the ring is not difficult but requires a small blade to press the last of the three tabs into place. I put tiny dab of cyanoacrylate glue under the ring, reinserted it, and am hopeful that this prevents the problem.

Reviewer: Amy Goebel Padgett
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Solid bridge camera
Review: I wanted to leave a review because I almost didn't buy this camera after reading the other reviews and that would have been a shame. I had the Canon SX60 but during a visit to the swamp it fell in the water and stopped working. I was heartbroken because I loved that camera. I almost bought that model again but thought I would take a chance on the newer SX70. I have been using it for several days now on my birding forays. Like any camera, I had to get used to it, but I made the transition fairly easily from the SX60.Other reviewers mentioned issues with the menus. I didn't have issues, but i was expecting to after reading the other reviews. So I took the precaution of going through all the menus just to get familiar with them after I charged the batteries and before I went into the field. I was able to program the C1 and C2 settings the way I preferred them with very few issues. My biggest stumble was saving the settings because I kept thinking the menu would say Save like the Sx60, but it says Register settings (specifically, you go to the wrench/tools menu, Custom shooting mode, then select Register settings, and whatever settings you have selected will be saved for your choice of C1 or C2). It was not difficult, just different. I do suggsst familiarizing yourself with the menus before doing anything. There are more menus than on the SX60 and they are set up a little differently.The camera itself has been working well for me. I will note that it feels more "plasticky" and less solid than my old SX60, but I am okay with that so far. It also uses different batteries which is too bad as I have a lot of old batteriesfor my other camera. I do like the bluetooth connection to my tablet--it took me a little messing around to set it up, but it works well.I included my first shot as an example. Just a cardinal at our bird feeder, but it does give you an example of a casual photo that is possible without doing anything special at all. I am not a photographer. I just like taking photos of birds and our dogs.Anyway , I wanted to give another viewpoint. I like this camera so far and am glad I took a chance on it.

Reviewer: Tomas Ruvalcaba
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: La mejor compra calidad-precio! Excelente camara

Reviewer: les
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I really like this SX70 Cannon. Has a great zoom! And the pictures taken when it's zoomed in all the way are still good. I really like how easy it is to connect to my phone to move pictures from the camera to the phone. The phone doesn't even need to be connected to wifi to do it. Comes with a battery and charger.

Reviewer: Policarpo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Já tive uma sx50, e foi muito bem usada.

Reviewer: Gaurav Kulkarni
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Writing a review after 3 months of usage. Firstly, this is not a "dslr". It's point and shoot camera. I bought it for bird/wildlife photography. And I must recommend this camera if you want to capture birds or insects or even butterflies. Zoom feature is simply superb and can capture distant objects at ease. Image stabilization is good within 65x zoom limit. If you want to go beyond that, I suggest buying tripod or gorilla pods. Learning the various modes is so easy and camera adjusts most of the things for you like there is auto for every setting. Finally, if you love birds and tiny objects, this camera by canon is my first suggestion. I am satisfied with its performance in this price range. The only drawback is battery life. I felt charging it quite frequently. But the rest is perfect.

Reviewer: Marcio AN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: ótima máquina