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"Lori, Please do not decieve people with your review"
Pros: Of course it's a 10, I have one
Cons: Lori's review showing camera with RED banded lens
Summary: Pay Attention Folks, I'm only going to tell you this one time.
The lens Lori is displaying with this camera has a RED band near the front ring. This is a highly specialized Pro Series lens costing $1500.oo minimum. This is completely wrong to display this lens in this report when in fact, Canon supplies this camera with a $30.00 18-55mm standard lens which I also received with mine. This cheaper lens will work OK to get a handle of how the camera works. One will have to explore this camera on a daily basis to understand all the features.
Most of you have XP Pro on your computers, but never use 1/10 of it. Well wait till you open this baby up to all what's inside. This is a gadget freaks delight. But a perfect upgrade to those who want to move up from the more advanced point and shoot pocket marvels.
One more point about the lens she used. This lens is for full frame cameras which this camera is not.
Canon has made a special lens just for this series labeled
EF S series. Your camera shop will clue you in further on this.
Lets get one thing clear here, and thats the battery. I think Lori should take a break and charge the battery correctly first before making the comment rating she left.
I just returned from a holiday 3 day weekend and everyone there got a turn to scan through all the photo's 10 times over plus the fact I had it out everyday shooting. This is not to say I didn't bring extra batteries with, it's just that I was blown away that I never had to change it.
Here's a serious tip if your ready to move up, and want to save even more. Take a look at the newer XTi model 10MP. It's a little bit smaller body is quite sexy. I would get one in a heart beat as a second loaded and mounted system.
Heres Why I purchased this system.
One, it has a great Flash, and again Lori made a comment here that she never tested it herself of blocked flash with some lenses. Of course if you have a $5000 dollar Tele lens with front outer ring so huge to block the flash, you would not be using the flash anyway. The bears don't take kindly to blinding light. And now your a crunchy snack.
This is the new upgrade from the 20D that is basically the same thing but with a major larger screen for us older crew that use reading glasses.
The key is don't try to learn the whole manual over night.
Pilots can't fly a new plane either without a lot of playing around in the simulator. So just do what seems logical and it will work. The cool thing when it's in Manual mode is you can release the flash to pop up and regardless what you have for settings it will do magic with the flash.
So when you go to the shop, bring your own Compact Flash card with so you can bring back a few shots to process on your computer. You will scream with amazement when it's displayed on the screen of 20 inch.
The detail of your pet on the screen will make you want to reach out to see if you can feel the hair.
Here's another very cool process it can do. Some of you have tried RAW and I just recently have since I have owned this one. It's not all that complicated that people make it out to. BUT, you can have your cake and eat it to with this guy. The menu settings can be set too shoot both RAW and normal JPEG at the same time. How cool is that?
Now you have ready shots to use in JPEG, and a saved file as well in RAW that you can learn as you go with the software that comes with.
If you want true review of any aspect, then go to dpreview.
This group of people will help you any where you get stuck. They will now be your instant new friends. Go check it out before you buy one.
And by all means, take it with you everyday. You will be disappointed as soon as you leave the house without it.
Happy Holidays, you deserve a new tool.
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Canon EOS 30D with 18mm-to-55mm lens:
$1,336.00
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