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Originally Posted by xstream
He's got the eye on you Dennis, nice shot.
Now that you've been able to have a play with the 40D, what's your overall impression of it?
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Hi John
Its early days yet, but so far the camera has easily lived up to its expectations. I purchased it primarily for terrestrial photography, for use mainly on our day trips and for the Live View and MLU capability for attaching to the telescope for photographing (stationary) bird’s at a distance. However, one night at the telescope has now shown me that it will be possible to do some serious (in my terms) astro photography too, where again it has exceeded my expectations in terms of noise although there are a few operational quirks I have yet to understand and master.
As with all things new, the degree of sophistication and incredible functionality was quite daunting when I began to read the manual. However, the day after we made the purchase, we went to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary and with the mode dial set to “P” the camera performed flawlessly and turned in some memorable images.
The biggest difference I have noted is no so much with the camera as I haven’t yet needed to exercise all the advanced functionality, but in the sharpness of the EF70-200 F4L IS lens compared (unfairly) to our (cheaper) Pentax kit lenses. I also liked what Canon and Nikon were doing with their range of DSLR’s and unfortunately Pentax seemed to be lagging behind. I chose the 40D mainly because of Live View and MLU and it was over $1,300 cheaper than the anticipated price of the Nikon D300 which I also considered.
Generally, I like all the controls, buttons and dials and the Menus are easy to navigate. The only niggly thing I can think of right now, is the fiddly position of the main on/off switch at the bottom of the body at the back. Maybe I’ve got big fingers? LOL.
Cheers
Dennis
