The Canon SX70 HS camera is still selling well, even in 2025, despite Canon having discontinued its production. However, demand is still high, and you can still find the Canon SX70 HS camera as an asset on most online platforms. The surprising fact is that in 2025 the demand for compact cameras has risen again, and this is the best time for Canon to update the Canon SX70 HS camera.
Initial reports suggest Canon will bring a compact zoom camera updates soon, due the hughe demand, the SX70HS sucessor SX80HS is now in the announcement pipline and expected to apper sometime in between March to Sep 2026
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Canon use a bigger sensor and stick to 65x, 1/1.7″ instead of crap 1/2.3″ smartphone sensor.
Agree entirely, think that the Sony RX10 IV kills all but the extreme zoom bridge cameras, thanks to the much better image quality.
Canon needs to decide which avenue to pursue, as they are currently falling between two stools, not good enough to beat the Sony and not long enough to beat the Nikon.
Have to say, it is actually surprising to see Canon return to this space, they created the market with the SX-50 and then went to sleep.
Now that digital camera sales are tanking, they are obviously trying to find some areas where they can still make money, but I think the competition is much tougher now, at least in this space.
Odin said exactly what I was going to say. They’d be much better going for a larger sensor like the 1/1.7″ than directly competing with the P1000. It’s gets more difficult for larger sensors with size, optics, aperture etc of the camera, but if it’s possible it would be a huge advantage.
By capturing more light digital zoom quality will be better if the camera is done right. The combination of the optical zoom, sensor size, and inability of holding the camera still for the exposure length means that digital zoom isn’t really beneficial at 125x optical zoom. In effect, even though you are still capturing at 16 MP the image quality is like a much lower MP. If you had less optical zoom but a much better quality picture through the use of a larger sensor, it could easily compensate for the lower optical zoom.
I wish Canon would offer something with a 24MP 1″ sensor and a FF equivalent 24-600 lens option, 25x is fine with much much better IQ. Offer stacked sensor and super fast AF and price around $1500 and this thing will fly off the shelf.
And put back the External Flash Shoe and return the Max ISO to 6.400. The SX70 was better in a few ways, but not worth the price IMO.
And FYI, if they “created the market” for this type camera, they surely did it with the SX10, not the SX50 which was a horrible camera.
I kind of wish I never sold my SX40, it had a faster lens, faster shutter speed and ridiculously faster continuous shooting. The SX50 was a horrible replacement. In those comparison studies the only reason not to buy an SX60 over an SX50 was that the 50 had an 18% larger pixel area.
Yes the Sony RX10 IV is a superior camera in the same class—at THREE TIMES the price.
Sony does not have an articulated screen. Is this another false rumour? (owner of a SX60, inadequate viewfinder)
PS: SX40 & SX60. I want the flashgun hot-shoe back if the SX80 ever comes out. Glad they moved the record video button. PP purchase of SX70.
Any news about the Canon sx80 hs ( or what the follow up sx70 hs will be named )?
My SX60 hs is getting old and the 70 isn’t the upgrade I’m looking for. Hope that Canon will pronounce an update soon, very soon