> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brian Berryhill > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: EOS Received my 20D > > I ordered the 20D kit from Dell on Sept 18 and received it on > Sept 24 (the expected ship date was the 29th) and paid $1555 > including 2 day shipping. I ordered two 512mb Lexar 40x > cards from Tigerdirect.com with a PC Card adapter for $135 > (I'll get a $20 rebate too). And finally, I ordered an > 1800mAh BP-511 aftermarket backup battery from Ebay (seller: > resurs2) with a mini-tripod for about $20 shipped. I bought > eight Rayovac 1800mAh batteries at Walmart for $14 to use in my 380EX.
I haven't done any scientific testing myself, but it looks (from the Rob Galbraith site) like the Sandisk Ultra II cards are the fastest cards for the 20D (too bad mine are all Lexar's too), but on the positive side, the 4gb Hitachi Microdrive looks to be fast too, and that's what I use the most in my 10D and it's now in my 20D. Some folks have reported that the charger supplied with the 20D won't charge some third party batteries. Since I already had the 10D charger in a convenient place, I haven't opened the new one to see if it works with my selection of batteries (4 Canons, 4 assorted generics) > > My previous camera was the ElanIIe and BP-50 with > 28-105/3.5-4.5USM, 20/2.8USM, and 100-300/4.5-5.6USM, 380EX. > I used 1500mAh NiMH batteries in the BP-50 and 380EX. > > My first impression: wow, it's fast! 5fps is noticeably > faster than the ElanIIe's ~2.5fps. The 18-55 lens doesn't > thrill me, but I figure it's not too much worse than the 6 > year old 28-105. I miss not having my wide angle 20/2.8. I > loved the perspective skewing you could do with that lens on > a 1x 35mm camera. However, the 1.6x of the 20D does make the > 100-300 plenty... > almost too much... for telephoto work. I hope the smaller > CCD area is small enough to not get into the lesser > quality/vignetted areas that the 100-300 always showed at 300 > and wide open. I'll do some testing and see. Canon uses CMOS, not CCD :-) > > So far, I've just shot at ISO400 and small/normal, and the > pictures are as good as any digital camera I've ever used > (nothing over 4mp). With the small/normal setting, I was > getting file sizes in the 300-500kb range (a little less than > Canon's 600kb number, which I assume is a max size). You might as well use all the resolution you have, shoot in RAW or large JPG. That way if you need to crop or enlarge, you'll have enough detail to do it. > > I'd really like to get the BG-E2 grip for the vertical grip > features since I'll be shooting a lot of verticals soon. But > there is no financial advantage to using the grip as was the > ElanIIe's grip where you could use AA batteries instead of > 2CR5's. The BP-50 paid for itself many times over because of that. Well, you CAN use AA batteries in the BG-E2, but for me the nicest thing was that it makes the 20D, which is a bit smaller than the 10D, a bit taller than the 10D. Those of use with big hands don't really want smaller cameras. > > I never used eye control focus on my ElanIIe because it was > too slow for true action. Back when the Eos 3 came out, I > remember it being a lot faster at ECF than the ElanIIe, so if > when and if ECF comes out on a digital body, I would hope > that it's good enough to make the pros happy. But for the > 20D, I don't miss it. I never used ECF on my Elan or my EOS 3 either. It worked, but it wasn't the way I wanted to shoot. Tom P. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
