Hi Gawaine,
As you know, the design of everything (except stuff built for NASA) is
a trade off between production costs and market acceptance. In every
"hobbyist" activity there are a large number of users that will find
fault with even the very best product ... nitpicking any feature that
isn't absolutely perfect. This is true with cameras, sports cars, boats,
golf clubs, computers, audio equipment ... the list is endless. It
is especially true in photography where many of the "professionals"
are really hobbyists who happen to make their living by selling
their pictures. The true professional in any of the above fields
views his equipment as tools of his trade and objectively selects
the best tools for his application ... and does so with the realization
that no tool is perfect.
The D30 is an excellent digital camera, but far from perfect. As
with all electronic devices there will be improvements in all areas
of its function in the (near) future ... either by Canon, or by some
other digital camera maker. Of course there is a time lag for the
camera to write its data to the CF card or Microdrive making it
slower than a film camera for repeated shutter button pushes, but
the present state of the art for very small digital memory is the
limitation, not Canon's engineering. At this point in time the D30
is the best you can buy in its price range.
I'm sure that this post will draw flames, but it is my opinion based
on being a "hobbyist" in many of the areas I listed for many of my
sixty-six years. BTW, the counter on my D30 is now at 3287.
Regards,
-Nick T.
gawaine maxwell wrote:
>
> I was interested to read the recent postings regarding the D 30, especially
> since I am considering buying one. I found one or two of the statements
> pretty extaordinary, namely that there is practically no AF and that flash
> exposure is inconsistent. I have seen numerous examples of sports photos
> taken with D30 on AF as well as photos of flying birds. Although I have read
> of various difficulties some people have been having with AF it does seem
> there are ways around many of these problems most notably turning off the
> auto select on the focus point. I would accept that no digital camera can
> yet match the speed of a good film SLR it does not mean these problems are
> insurmountable. Check out this page
> http://www.lonestardigital.com/sports_action.htm for an example of high
> speed action captured with a D30 using AF also worth reading is Chuck
> Westfall's advice on using AF on the D30
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/d30_info.html
> With regard to flash I have read consistently of the excellent results
> produced by the D30 including comments by a photojournalist that the E-TTL
> system works best on the D30. Clearly opinions differ sharply on the
> abilities of this camera but obviously some people seem capable of getting
> consistently excellent results using AF and flash and unless there is a huge
> variation in the capabilities of individual cameras it would suggest that it
> is the individual photographers who are at variance.
> I should add that I am not trying to rubbish those who may have genuine
> problems regarding this camera,http I am simply puzzled by the oft repeated
> deficiencies of this camera against the evidence. See also
> http://www.deveuster.com/digital/
> and
> http://www.homestead.com/marksvision/home.html
> Kind regards
> Gawaine
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