I have had the SX70 for 6 months now, and had to work through the same problems. Here are some of my findings--I use Spot AF which is the smallest focus point and Servo AF-I disabled Continuous AF-I use Tv=1/1000 to capture wildlife movement because...
I have the Powershot SX70 HS. It does not have a touchscreen. Pages 117-119 in the Advanced User Guide discuss focusing options but there is no mention of a touchscreen there or anywhere else in the guide.There was a recent post about changing the fo...