Someone gave xrapidx a 40D

bwana said:
XXXD's - 350/400/450 and presumably 1000 (eXtra X required :p)

One day I hope to wealthy enough to skip the XX grade and go straight from XXX to X. :D
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No, you're missing it too. In his post he has 50/40/450/1000 as entry level dslrs.

ps: I fixed it for you :D
 
BigAl-sa said:
No, you're missing it too. In his post he has 50/40/450/1000 as entry level dslrs.

ps: I fixed it for you :D
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No I didnt miss it in the OP but he/she specified XXX in the next post.

And thanks, but no, its not the money holding me back right now - though I wouldn't complain too much if the prices were a bit lower :)
 
KBrown said:
There's nothing wrong with the entry level SLRs like 50/40/450/1000D but your AF will not be as fast. I would have thought the 450d would be a fair performer as it uses the digic 4 chip, having said that, the 40D is far superior in every regard and is very comparable to the 50d. Realistically, when will you ever use the high ISO to get decent pics? The 40D can expand it's ISO to 3200, personally I never go over ISO400, even ISO200 is high for me.
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Incorrect. It uses the DIGIC 3.
 
KBrown said:
There's nothing wrong with the entry level SLRs like 50/40/450/1000D but your AF will not be as fast. I would have thought the 450d would be a fair performer as it uses the digic 4 chip, having said that, the 40D is far superior in every regard and is very comparable to the 50d. Realistically, when will you ever use the high ISO to get decent pics? The 40D can expand it's ISO to 3200, personally I never go over ISO400, even ISO200 is high for me.
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Careful which cameras you group together as "entry level" - 40D/50D is hardly entry level.

BTW, the AF system is not part of the Digic processor - it's a separate system. In the 40D/50D, it's far superior to (in speed, accuracy and sensitivity) to anything found in any of Canon's cameras other than the 1D series. The 5D has an inferior AF system, and from what I've read, it's unchanged in the 5D mkII - time will tell.

For interest's sake, I took my 40D with the 24-105L f/4 to my company xmas party the other night. I have disabled the strobe-AF-assist, because it annoys me, causes pictures with closed eyes, and confuse other people whom I hand the camera to. The venue was much much darker than I expected, so dark, that at times I could not make out faces through the viewfinder, only the silhouettes against the backdrop of a better-lit bar in the background.

Recipe for disaster? Hardly. Out of 53 pictures I took, only one was out of focus. I had the camera in M, shutter set fairly slow (to catch some of the background) and f/4 to f/5.6 mostly, pop-up flash enabled. Of course, on the short end, DOF helps, but I'm referring to the AF points hitting the faces, despite relying on the (nearly non-existent) contrast in the scene.

EDIT: On the 40D you can set it to display the AF points that were active when each shot was taken, so it's easy to see what it focussed on.
 
ldmelsa said:
I take it you use a small camera. You should try DSLR. They're great at lowlight.
Your camera is bad at lowlight because it uses a small sensor.
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I've been impressed with the 50D @ 6400 with NR, I took a few handheld photo's the other night where I didn't want to use a flash, and it was quite dark (only a few candles)
 
I shoot with a 40d but used 400d in the past. The 400d in particular hates low light, at least compared to the 40/50d. Since that theres at least a R5k difference between 40 & 50d, and I'm not a pixel peeper and have always been satisfied with 10MP. The magazine editors hate noise and will reject images off the bat unless that is part of the images post processing. Granted that when these images are resized to 1024/1280 usually the noise would not be visible but sometimes these images are then made into large prints i.e. A2 and larger which shows up every little processing flaw....

To ensure that we're all on the same pages, I consider xxxd to be entry level slr cameras, xxd to be prosumer & pro cameras. Even though xxxd is "entry level" i the correct hands these can outshoot higher spec cameras, but that depends on the photographer. I won't even discuss xd because as much as I would love a 1Dsmk3 or 5dmk2 it's simply too expensive.

Also, correction, digic 4 chip as stated is in 50 and 5dmk2.
 
KBrown said:
Gawd, just imagine if I had shot with a Nokin.:D
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Plenty of Nikon shooters here and surprisingly they're not all bad . . . though there are exceptions :p

Time to pack up my bag and trundle off to work.
 
koffiejunkie said:
That's my pride and joy - what do you expect? :p
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Different strokes and all that. For me the body is just something to hold my glass.

When I come across a shot that makes me think gee, I wish my gear could do that . . then I'll look at upgrading. :)
 
To be honest, and gawd forgive me for sayting this NOINKs lend themselves to Strobist stle photography i.e. more cameras that sync higher that 1/250, flashes can be bought with gels, NOINK CLS system is great by all accounts, one can control flashes from some NOINK cameras....
 
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