Canon EOS 30D with 18mm-to-55mm lens

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4.5 stars

"A great digital SLR for semi-serious to serious photographers."

by dhoule on May 22, 2006

Pros: Camera presets, fast auto-focus, and burst mode are great.

Cons: None, that I could find.
Summary: I spent hours (20+) researching and playing with several different dSLR's. The 30D's features and performance won me over. And even at the price I'm happy that I purchased it.

I put the camera through its paces at a youth soccer game and party this past weekend. Over the course of the weekend we took over 850 pictures on one battery. These were about 90% outdoors without flash at the soccer game and 10% indoors with the flash. Toss in a healthy dose of viewing the pictures on the wonderful 2.5in screen and leaving the camera on for about two hours continuously, and I give it a Thumbs Up for battery life.

I've not really played with the Manual settings much as the presets do a very, very nice job. All of the action pictures from the soccer game came out great. The camera's burst photos (9 at a time) are incredible at about 4 or 5 per second, with a very fast recovery time while it writes to the CF card. You'll never miss the perfect shot due to shutter lag, or shot timing with this speed.

Indoors with the normal Auto mode I got equally stunning shots... the flash is very effective, almost too much with distances less than 7 or 8 feet, and was good out to about 20-22 feet with nice balance and brightness.

I handed over the camera to my 12 year old son for a while and his pictures were very good as well. He did say that the camera got heavy after shooting several pictures. (At this point the camera had the 75-300 Cannon lens which does add additional weight.)

This camera is a very strong buy! It has great presets, very fast auto focus, an awesome 2.5" screen, a very good feel in your hand, very good battery life and much, much more.

I've seen several other reviews that spoke of shadows using the built in flash... but I did not experience this with either the 18-55 or the 75-300 lenses.

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Canon EOS 30D with 18mm-to-55mm lens: $569.95 - $1,336.00

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