I had all three different models (D30, D60, 10D) at one point. The D30 AF was so painful, that even the "improved" D60 AF wasn't really good either. A common complaint of D30/D60 users was the poor AF performance, especially in low light.
Considering that these bodies originally sold for $3000 and $2200 respectively, a better AF performance would be expected. As it is, it compared to that of (or even worse than) a Rebel. My main application was studio and macro, and for that the cameras worked ok. I also tried it for taking photographs of my baby boy, and indoors with regular room lighting, AF was painfully slow and I low quite a few shots because of that. I like the 10D better in that respect. AF is now at least par with the Elan (which is still not stellar as far as I'm concerned). The 10D has the AF that the D30 should have had at first place. BTW, the D30 needs all the help it can get for its poor AF, so your fast lenses would help a bit. With a 10D, the noise at 400 ASA is much less pronounced than on a D60 - some folks say 800 ASA on the 10D looks better than 400 ASA on the D60. I guess I would have stayed with the D60, but I wanted the FAT32 support for using the 4Gig Microdrive. I didn't like being limited to the equivalent of 4 1/2 rolls of film on a 1 Gig Microdrive. Some days I would come really close to filling both my 1 Gig Microdrives. Only way to avoid it was to switch to JPG for not so important photographs (ie. those for the web). Lars -- .~. Lars Michael /V\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /(_)\ http://www.larsmichael.com/ ^^ ^^ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
