burychka wrote: AdrianRogers wrote: burychka wrote: AdrianRogers wrote:
Been using my 20D for a full 3 years now so I think it\'s time to retire the old girl to back up duties (Even though I\'m almost certain that camera will keep taking photos FOREVER, the 20D was a pure masterstroke IMO)
I agree. Except for the small LCD screen, it is superior in almost every respect to my 40D, which I have dubbed the noise king!
You find the noise on your 40D inferior to your 20D? Interesting.. I was looking to get a better backup to my coming 5D2 in the form of one of those but perhaps I should just go with a 5D1 instead.
Yes. I don\'t know what the reviews say, but I shoot a lot at ISO 800 and 1600, and I good pretty sharp photos with the 20D, while the 40D is quite disappointing in low light.
If you are using a 5D2 as a pro, then I don\'t see how a crop camera could be your backup for other than extreme emergencies. The focal lengths of your lenses would be all different in effect. Indeed, you would lose wide angle, unless you have one of the extreme \"digital\" lenses like the Canon 10-22. It would drive me crazy, if I were concentrating on a subject and had to switch. Seems to me a used 5D would make more sense than a 40D or 50D. But there must be some pros here who work that way.
A few things that I have noticed because I have a 50D and 5DII ... The LCDs are the same, the information displays on the screens are the same, the internal menu systems are the same (except 5DII has one extra item on one menu), key controls are layed out exactly the same (except those around the display), viewfinder data displays are close enough to being the same. You can go between these cameras and it is not disorienting. They can be setup to be exact clones of each other with everything identical. I\'m not saying one approach is better than the other, just that there are a few reasons someone might like the 5DII / 50D combo.
Dec 06, 2008 at 10:59 PM
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