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Summary: Expensive Wide Angle
Review: I do not yet have a Digital SLR, so I gave it 4 stars based on what how I felt playing with it in the store.I'm definatly in the market for one, but I really like Wide Angle shots. The problem is with the CMOS chip. It's smaller than Full Frame 35 mm. This means that you must multiply the lens focal length by 1.6 to get the effective focal length (for both the 10D and the Digital Rebel). Anybody buying this camera should first price out lenses, or check their current focal lenghts to see if they will be able to do what they want. My 20-35 equates to a 32-56mm, not as wide as I would like, though my 35 f2 will be a great Normal and my 50 f1.4 will be great for portraits. Amature sports photographers will love the focal magnification as they can now use reasonably priced lenses for long shots! (the 200mm becomes 320mm, with a 1.4 converter close to 450mm) The digital Rebel comes with a 18 -55 mm (aprox 29 - 88mm), unfortunatly this is stearing me to the lower quality Rebel. Hopefully the next generation of consumer DSLRs will be full frame like the new EOS 1Ds.
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Summary: Excellent product
Review: I have a great camera for just about any type of situation. It's the Canon 10D
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Summary: Very mediocre prosumer like body.
Review: Sure those who "upgrade" from from P&S digicams would be pleased by this one , but it is just another mediocre camera. The image quality is nothing special, the tone rendering is below expectations, the details are obscure. Well it is not bad camera it is just ordinary camera.
From my experience with inexpensive lenses (not EX) the image quality desires a lot to be improved. Well for $1500 I would postpone, or pass to something else.
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Summary: Beautiful camera
Review: Love the camera. Love it. I love not having to process film. I love not having to wait for film processing. I love the quality, especially in the larger file sizes. Auto focus is best yet. And... I use my old Canon AF lenses on it.
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Summary: wonderful
Review: I have been very resistant to digital cameras. I mainly use a elan 7 and a mamiya 645 for all of my work, but after spending hours and hours every night scanning prints and slides, and even more time removing those little specs from dust, I took the plunge into the world of dslr cameras. I chose the 10d because the rebel's body is a little cheap and the 1ds is way out of my price range. The 10d is a very sturdy camera with a good amount of weight to it that helps reduce camera shake. The focusing problems other peaple have talked about is not present in my camera. I have several friends with 10ds and they have no proplems either. I think that people might not be paying attention to shutter time ar perhaps they are using third party lesnes. The battery lasts a very ling time. To test the camera I took it to Disney's Animal Kingdom and the battery lasted all day (over 350 images taken plus a lot of reviewing and playing). This camera is great and performs in a pro manner. The white balance braketing is really cool (no more warm filters needed in overcast days). The images I took at 2:00 on a overcast day look like they were taken late afternoon on a clear day. I realy like that when you trasfer the images to your computer, all of the image info goes with it (and I mean all of the image info, even what lense you had on the camera {i.e. 70-200} and the actual mm the lense was at when the image was taken {i.e. 105} If you have any doubts about purchasing you can put them aside. Canon has really produced a spectacular camera that yields spectacular results.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I didn't know could stay so clear at large sizes.
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Summary: big step up from non-SLR digital camera
Review: I borrowed this camera for 10 minutes and decided I had to have one because there was no shutter lag. It was like the old days before going digital. Then I rented the camera for a weekend for $100 to make sure it made sense. It's worth doing just to see if you are willing to lug around a big camera again if all you're used to is compact cameras. (We ended up buy a Canon s400 at the same time because this camera is too big for all occasions.) Things I like: Just being back in SLR land again. The first thing you notice after you take a few pictures is how different they look with an SLR. It's much easier to create pictures with a small depth of field with a big 35mm lens, and it's a dramatic difference from 95% of the pictures you take with a regular digital camera (they usally have a very large depth of field). I like the 6 megapixels. Your cropping options increase a lot with this resolution. I love the 3.3 fps, burst up to 9 images at once. I've captured my kids in action in ways that was never possible before. I love the AI auto focus mode where as long as the button is pressed the camera will focus on the subject in the center focus point. I use that to track my daughter playing soccer. I love the view finder. Just looking through it is a beautiful thing. Fast, informative, what you see is what you get, etc. The camera's controls are pretty easy but I found I had to read the manual several times before it all sunk in. OK, it hasn't all sunk in yet ... but there's hope. Things I don't like: The pictures often do look softer than I would like. My olympus c4040 took amazingly sharp images in comparison. I have not figured out if I can just adjust the sharpness in the camera's settings to fix this. I have not made the leap to RAW image format even though I have the software to manage that. At night time the camera has a hard time focusing. My Olympus c4040 did a lot better in that respect. The automatic (green) mode for the camera does not allow you to specify a specific focus point (e.g., the center one). It insists on guessing and while it often does a good job it also often fails to focus on the subject in the center. It shows you what it is focusing on but if it's wrong you just have to release and press again until it picks the right spots. And sometimes it doesn't. So then you need to switch to P mode where you can specify a focus point to use, but then you lose all the automatic features of the camera (like popping up the flash when necessary). All this is OK but you then need to explain this to your spouse who may or may not care about all these details. I wish Canon would make it possible to specify a focus point in automatic mode. I'd have to say that is my biggest gripe. It's not entirely clear to me yet which settings are permanent and which ones are reset when you turn the camera off. I like P mode as a substitute for automatic (green box) mode because I can specify a focus point. But I am not sure whether that means I have to manually adjust all the other settings or whether they will be automatically adjusted for me. I know, for example, that the flash does not pop up automatically in P mode. Summary: Oh, so don't get me wrong. This camera ROCKS. Also it's nice to realize that this camera has upgradeable firmware. If there is an issue or if enough people complain about the sharpness, or if there are new features that must be implemented, it's nice to think that a lot of it is just a firmware upgrade away. I hope that's not naive of me. I suggest you try this camera out before buying it, if you are coming from a regular digital camera, that is. Good luck!
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Summary: From the newbie's perspective...
Review: I am a brand new photographer just learning the ropes, and this is the first digital camera I've owned, so my review is from that perspective... I'd been thinking for a while about learning some basic photography, and although getting such an expensive camera wasn't the initial plan, the EOS 10D turned out to be the best deal, when considering the number of features and quality of images. Here's what I liked about it:
- it's good enough. Even if Canon or someone else comes out with a new model next year that's a little bit better (more pixels, additional features, etc.), it won't matter. This is a feature-packed camera on which I can learn a wide variety of photographic techniques, and still be happy with it when I get to a higher level of proficiency. It cost more up front, but I'll still have this camera while my friends swap out 4 or 5 (or more) of the $500-ish digital cameras, and I'll be producing better pictures the whole time with the better quality camera.
- it's great (idiotproof) at point and click. Camera arrived 3 days before our trip to Vegas. No time to learn how to use it (besides the very basics), so I largely used it as a point and click while I was there. Despite my utter lack of skill, I still came away with several hundred really awesome photos. This camera is very forgiving and can do most of the work for you, which is key for beginners.
- easy to use buttons. This was my first digital camera - period. Hadn't even used someone else's digital camera much. Despite this, I found the menus and buttons pretty intuitive. With just some basic browsing, I was able to find the things I needed. I would caution other beginners, though, that the user's manual assumes that you understand something about cameras and photography. I found that I needed to read up on basic photography terms and techniques to understand what the manual was trying to tell me. Fortunately, as I said, the buttons are pretty intuitive, so you don't need the manual to do basic things. Aside from that, I have to echo the exhuberance of others - no more swapping out film every 24-36 shots is GREAT!!! So is the instant gratification of seeing the picture right away. In conclusion, the money that was devoted to this camera (plus the lens, flash, 1/2GB memory card, etc., etc.) was very well spent - haven't regretted it for a second. Now if I only had more time to use it...
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Summary: canon eos 10 :affordable digital for serious photographers
Review: I purchased my Canon eos 10d seven months ago after extensive reviews of available cameras that were affordable. Recent price drops have made this camera within the reach of serious amateur phtographers. I would never go back to film because the instant review of photos is a great learning tool, plus you can experiment with settings without paying for film or waiting for developing. Reading all the camera tests was great but there is no substitute for actual experience.
I have taken over 4000 photos of wildlife, mostly birds, plus quite a few landscapes. The quality of your work will depend a great deal on quality lenses, study of exposure theory and becoming familiar with the cameras features. If you just want to point and shoot, buy a less expesive camera. to get the best use you will need to use the customized features to adjust exposure. This camera will require manual focus in low light nature scenes and shots with lots of sky. It also will not function in autofocus mode when using the teleconvertor on a lens like the Canon 100-400L IS. This unit also tends to overexpose when taking landscapes with lots of light, requiring the use of built in exposure compesation or photoediting programs. Be prepared to spend time studying the manual or buying
an aftermarket book. With these reservations I highly reccomend this camera.
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Summary: Great upgrade from $500-ish digital cameras
Review: I've had mine for 2 months now. I upgraded from a Sony digital camera in the $500 range. I'm not a pro photographer, just an enthusiast, taking maybe 500-1000 pictures a month. This camera kills the ones that are a step down in two very important ways: 1. SPEED -- almost no shutter lag and 3 shots per second mean that I'm taking pictures of the kids doing cute things instead of pictures of what they looked like just after finishing their cute things... 2. QUALITY -- by learning only a little bit about the different shooting modes, my photos are looking an order of magnitude more professional... I'm getting shots with that professional looking background blur and my subject in perfect focus. If you're an enthusiastic ameteur looking to take the next step up, and can afford the price, it is well worth every penny.
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