Clickonline writes: "The SX50 is ideally suited for beginners or improvers, sporting a fully featured hot shoe once you’re ready to graduate to an added flash and a good mix of manual and handholding settings. The creative possibilities of the zoom aren’t quite matched by the somewhat slow aperture (between f 3.4 and 6.5) but attractive depth of field meddling is still possible."
Techradar: The bridge area of the compact camera market is one part of the market that is still doing well in what is otherwise a declining segment.
Manufacturers are packing larger and larger zooms onto these cameras which, for many, act as an alternative to a DSLR, or a step up from a standard compact camera.