I learned a little trick with the SX50 this spring when trying shoot whales breaching. Guessing when a whale is going to breach is next to impossible even if you know where it's going to breach. All my high speed bursts were too late and caught the whales submerging. I finally put my SX50 into HD movie mode and caught the action that way. To my surprise Canon's imagebrowser software can pull still frames from movies in the edit mode. They are not the quality of still shots but will do in a pinch when capturing the action is your priority and you can't guess when the action will start or stop. Below are some examples I took of a hawk bathing at 50 yards, full optical, hand held and overcast. I could have shot these in single shot but wanted to provide some examples of movie stills. A good use would be capturing birds in flight.

I learned a little trick with the SX50 this spring when trying shoot whales breaching. Guessing when a whale is going to breach is next to impossible even if you know where it's going to breach. All my high speed bursts were too late and caught the whales submerging. I finally put my SX50 into HD movie mode and caught the action that way. To my surprise Canon's imagebrowser software can pull still frames from movies in the edit mode. They are not the quality of still shots but will do in a pinch when capturing the action is your priority and you can't guess when the action will start or stop. Below are some examples I took of a hawk bathing at 50 yards, full optical, hand held and overcast. I could have shot these in single shot but wanted to provide some examples of movie stills. A good use would be capturing birds in flight.

I learned a little trick with the SX50 this spring when trying shoot whales breaching. Guessing when a whale is going to breach is next to impossible even if you know where it's going to breach. All my high speed bursts were too late and caught the whales submerging. I finally put my SX50 into HD movie mode and caught the action that way. To my surprise Canon's imagebrowser software can pull still frames from movies in the edit mode. They are not the quality of still shots but will do in a pinch when capturing the action is your priority and you can't guess when the action will start or stop. Below are some examples I took of a hawk bathing at 50 yards, full optical, hand held and overcast. I could have shot these in single shot but wanted to provide some examples of movie stills. A good use would be capturing birds in flight.