Canon 50D

[paul]

I'm considering getting this camera. I don't suppose anyone here has it and would care to comment...?

Thanks

Paul
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[ralary]

canon eos is the famous camera,I like it very much

[paul]

Thanks, ralary, for your hugely insightful posts which I'm gradually working my way through and removing, following adding you to the ban list.

FWIW, if anyone's still reading this, I did go ahead and get the Canon 50D. I've only had it a couple of months but am very pleased with it so far. Need to get to grips with the manual controls a bit more but so far so good.
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[Kay]

Oooh!- a Canon 50D, how lovely!

I have been a Canon girl since the 1980s when I bought my first SLR on tick from Dicksons. It took me nearly three years to pay it off but it was worth every penny. It was an AE1, which is considered to be something of a classic now. I subsequently bought a second AE1 body so I had one for trannies and one for B&W.

They served me well for many years and the one I still have probably still would, but I don't use film any more. (One of the bodies got nicked in Turkey.)

By the early 2000s I wanted to go digi. We already had a digi compact camera but I never got along with it. It's funny now to think of that camera as a "compact". It was the size of a house brick.

For me it had to be an SLR and it had to be a Canon. I went for the Canon D60. Gosh, is it really seven years since I bought it? I still think of it as my "new" camera.

I love this camera, and recently bought a new lens for it - a 28-105, I also have a wide angle lens. The only little problem I have with this camera is that I find it a bit heavy to lug around.

I hope you love your 50D as much as I love my D60 and that you'll have many happy years with it.

Here's one of my favourite photos which I took with the D60.



It's a portrait shot of one of the wooden statues at the Sanctuary of Truth, Naklua, Thailand.
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[paul]

Great pic, Kay...! Have you any more you'd like to share? See this thread: http://www.aardvarktravel.net/chat/viewtopic.php?t=768
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[Dave McM]

Kay's D60, though it's taken some lovely photos, is a bit behind the times when it comes to technology - it's rather slow at processing shots, and it can be very annoying when you're trying to take several in succession to find that you're suddenly locked out because the electronics are chugging their way slowly through the previous dozen or so that you've taken.

So we're considering an upgrade - to another Canon, of course. As Kay says, she's utterly brand-loyal, which I suppose is hardly surprising given the way that camera manufacturers lock you in to their own particular lens fitting.

The 60D looks like the most likely candidate. It's a bit disappointing to see that in some cases the features look like a step down from the 50D (DPReview now rate it as a high-end enthusiast's model rather than a "prosumer" one) and that they've given it an aluminium/polycarbonate body instead of magnesium alloy. Then again, it's smaller and lighter so may make it easier for Kay to carry; and she doesn't use that many of the fancy functions anyway.

Mind you, I've just discovered that the bottleneck for the image processing may be the CF card rather than the camera, so we'll check that out first. If they're still making CF cards that have a small enough capacity for the D60 to cope with, anyway.

Meanwhile, has anyone any experience of the 60D? And Paul, how are you getting on with the 50D now that we're seven months further down the track?

[Kay]

[Dave McM]

I took your presence behind the viewfinder as read, dear.

Mind you, I'd love to see you try to take a photo without a camera.
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