--- Daniel Flather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My neighbor purchased a Canon 3000 (rebel?) last
> week and he was showing me his new toy. I came with
> the 28-80/3.5-5.6 zoom. Now I know this will be a
> slow AF set up. But it is almost useless!! I could
> not focus at all. I tried the AF on a bush with
> lot's of snow on the ground (black on white - lots
> of contrast) with full direct sun light all at
> infinity. This set up could not focus properly,
> lots of hunting. It would lock focus after a tries
> but very slow. Is there something wrong with his
> camera or is this normal?? I would think something
> is wrong.
>
> -Dan
Hi Dan,
It's interesting, I didn't know they sold the 3000 in
Canada - they don't sell it in the US (unless maybe
it's a grey import), but they do sell it here in
Australia. The 3000 is basically a repackaged EOS 500
(a Rebel XS in the States). As such it has 3 focus
points, but these are selected totally by the camera,
you cannot override the selected point manually (as
you can with the 500n/Rebel G for example).
So focus point selection may have had something to do
with it.
An easy test - try one of your lenses on his 3000 to
see what that works like and also try his lens on your
camera body and see how that goes. By the process of
elimination you can tell whether the camera body, the
lens or the combination of the two together is the
problem.
FWIW I've played with an EOS 3000 in a shop (I was
considering it as a back up body until I discovered
that you can't manually select the focusing point and
it doesn't support e-ttl (the only new model not to do
so)) and while it's AF was nothing to write home
about, it worked quite well - at least on stationary
objects. I can't remember what lens it was with for
sure, but I think it was either a 28-105 or 28-135.
Regards
Gary
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