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08/21/2007 05:09:45 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by option:
Originally posted by Atropos:
Live View with a fixed screen. Pretty useless. |
Man, your incessant Canon-bashing is starting to bug me... and I don't even shoot Canon! Maybe if you diverted a little bit of your creative energy into your photography, someone with a D40 would actually have a ribbon here... |
Actually, I think in this regard he has a point. Why would you want Live View on a fixed screen? I'm not going to start taking pictures with my dSLR at arm's length... |
Coming from using a Canon Powershot G5 to a Canon 400D I can say that the Liveview could come in handy in some situations...
-dave |
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08/21/2007 05:42:01 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by dknourek:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by option:
Originally posted by Atropos:
Live View with a fixed screen. Pretty useless. |
Man, your incessant Canon-bashing is starting to bug me... and I don't even shoot Canon! Maybe if you diverted a little bit of your creative energy into your photography, someone with a D40 would actually have a ribbon here... |
Actually, I think in this regard he has a point. Why would you want Live View on a fixed screen? I'm not going to start taking pictures with my dSLR at arm's length... |
Coming from using a Canon Powershot G5 to a Canon 400D I can say that the Liveview could come in handy in some situations...
-dave |
I believe it can also transmit the live view image over it's wifi connection. Good for remote activation during sports games or peeping in people's windows. :P
Kidding about the second part of course.
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08/21/2007 05:50:41 PM · #53 |
OK, I can understand Live View remote. But still, the point is you aren't looking at the back of the camera. So the OP reply that a fixed screen isn't very useful still stands.
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08/21/2007 05:56:10 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
OK, I can understand Live View remote. But still, the point is you aren't looking at the back of the camera. So the OP reply that a fixed screen isn't very useful still stands. |
I don't think the designer's intentions were for people to use them like a point and shoot. I think the intentions were for remote capture, macro photography, and astro photography where the ability to magnify the sensor's image to check focus prior to triggering it is very nice to have. Plus it's kind of awkward to hold a dslr at arms length and shoot as it is with or without live view.
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08/21/2007 05:57:22 PM · #55 |
| Indeed, I wouldn't say live view is one of the key features - it didn't even make it to my "Nifty" list above. =) I understand that it might have it's uses and appeal for some, but IMO - eh, whatever. |
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08/21/2007 06:09:23 PM · #56 |
Good think I just picked up a 30D a couple of weeks ago. I would hate to have had all this new, faster, bigger technology.
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08/21/2007 06:35:11 PM · #57 |
To be honest I think I'll skip this round of upgrades, can't see any reason to make a jump. Even if the 5D mk II comes along!
Glass and long glass will be my next priority I think. |
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08/21/2007 06:43:02 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
I'm going to guess that the 18-55mm IS is NOT a USM lens? I am seriously considering getting one... |
I was told by the Canon service center months ago, that there IS a Canon 18-55 II USM lens....ya just can't get it in the states!! |
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08/21/2007 07:46:43 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by bergiekat:
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
I'm going to guess that the 18-55mm IS is NOT a USM lens? I am seriously considering getting one... |
I was told by the Canon service center months ago, that there IS a Canon 18-55 II USM lens....ya just can't get it in the states!! |
WTF?
I know that if you buy the 18-55mm outside of the kit right now, it comes as a USM model. Maybe the IS version will be the same?
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08/22/2007 07:51:51 AM · #60 |
From Canon's Website: Canon's large-area CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensor captures images with exceptional clarity and tonal range, and offers the most pixels in its class. This APS-C size sensor (22.5 x 15.0mm) has the same 3:2 ratio as film cameras, enabling an effective angle of view that is 1.6x the normal EF Lens focal length
Is that saying the 40D is going to have a full frame sensor? I adore my 30D, but right now I'm wondering how much I could get in trade for it. Is that $1299 list price for just the body? It would just take me a mere year to pay that off. :-) |
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08/22/2007 07:53:47 AM · #61 |
| No - APS-C is still the same size sensor as the predecessors. Same 1.6x rule applies. |
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08/22/2007 07:54:54 AM · #62 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
From Canon's Website: Canon's large-area CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensor captures images with exceptional clarity and tonal range, and offers the most pixels in its class. This APS-C size sensor (22.5 x 15.0mm) has the same 3:2 ratio as film cameras, enabling an effective angle of view that is 1.6x the normal EF Lens focal length
Is that saying the 40D is going to have a full frame sensor? I adore my 30D, but right now I'm wondering how much I could get in trade for it. Is that $1299 list price for just the body? It would just take me a mere year to pay that off. :-) |
No, its saying that it uses the same ratio 3:2 as film but uses the 1.6 crop factor like all APS-C size sensors.
MattO
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08/22/2007 07:58:08 AM · #63 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
Is that saying the 40D is going to have a full frame sensor? |
That would have made my "Totally Sweet" list above, and I'd have one on order at this very moment. =) Sadly not the case. |
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08/22/2007 08:15:38 AM · #64 |
| I was going back and forth on buying the 40D or the (hopefully cheaper) 30D, but I think I'm just going to go for the 40D. The upgrades sound worthwhile. Now to think about lenses... |
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08/22/2007 01:07:58 PM · #65 |
Originally posted by saiphfire:
I was going back and forth on buying the 40D or the (hopefully cheaper) 30D, but I think I'm just going to go for the 40D. The upgrades sound worthwhile. Now to think about lenses... |
Herm...I thinking the same. The 30D will drop in price, but the 40D is nice with interchangable focusing screens.
Or just wait longer for the FF sub $1,000 camera. I'm a cheap guy. |
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08/22/2007 01:10:59 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by Nullix:
Originally posted by saiphfire:
I was going back and forth on buying the 40D or the (hopefully cheaper) 30D, but I think I'm just going to go for the 40D. The upgrades sound worthwhile. Now to think about lenses... |
Herm...I thinking the same. The 30D will drop in price, but the 40D is nice with interchangable focusing screens.
Or just wait longer for the FF sub $1,000 camera. I'm a cheap guy. |
As long as Canon has a monopoly on the FF cameras it will likely not happen. However it's only a question of time before Nikon and others get their act together and put out a FF camera...then you'll see prices start to drop.
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08/22/2007 01:14:53 PM · #67 |
WTF is an interchangeable focus screen?
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08/22/2007 01:25:32 PM · #68 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
WTF is an interchangeable focus screen? |
A throw back to the old days, I just wish they had included split-screen focusing.
Message edited by author 2007-08-22 13:26:33.
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08/22/2007 02:56:44 PM · #69 |
Leroy, thanks for reposting that link for me instead of calling me a lazy ijit for not reading the entire thread. I thought I'd read the thread, but I must've been thinking of one of the other 40D threads.
Cheers
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08/23/2007 02:09:57 PM · #70 |
| does anyone know when the 40D is going to hit store shelves? |
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08/23/2007 02:59:29 PM · #71 |
| Release date is Sept 20/21. |
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08/23/2007 04:11:15 PM · #72 |
My birthday is Sept 28, anyone want to take up a collection? ;-) It's a joke!!!
Actually, now that I know the 40D ISN'T FF Sensor, I'll go back to my original plan to invest in some glass after I pay off my strobe AND get my new tripod. ::::pets 30D AND gives it a kiss::::
Message edited by author 2007-08-23 16:11:31. |
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08/25/2007 11:36:23 PM · #73 |
| So anyone see any news on the wireless battery grip yet? |
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08/25/2007 11:52:02 PM · #74 |
Originally posted by option:
Originally posted by Atropos:
Live View with a fixed screen. Pretty useless. |
Man, your incessant Canon-bashing is starting to bug me... and I don't even shoot Canon! Maybe if you diverted a little bit of your creative energy into your photography, someone with a D40 would actually have a ribbon here... |
I divert nearly all my creative energy to photography, what's left goes to the novel I'm writing. And BTW, that was one comment I made that wasn't Canon bashing. That goes for all of the SLR's with Live View on a fixed screen. As I said before, the only thing I miss about my old camera (A Canon, mind you. And I loved it.) is the tilting and swivelling and rotating LCD screen. It was great for taking shots low to the ground, or say around an obstacle.
It just seems kinda useless having one that's fixed. I would say the same for Nikon or Pentax or Olympus or Sony. That feature I am not impressed with. Not until they put in an LCD screen similar to what I had on my S1 IS, and still have a nicely sized screen that doesnt add bulk to the back of the camera. |
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