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Which canon body gives bang for buck
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The 30D doesn’t have a cleaner.
I actually find the CCD cleaning thing to be a bit strange. I’m shooting 2 years with my 350D, have shot on windy beaches, sit in ditches for hours on end and shot in dusty Africa. I’ve yet to have a spec of dust on the sensor. You just have to be careful with how you change your lenses.
Give what I’ve read in this thread so far, the 30D seems like the body for you.
Dust is not a real problem, it’s more marketing fantasy than reality. I’m a really cruel user of my nikon and I only use a giottos blower to get the dust out of the body.
The 30d is the best choice for you at the moment, I’d agree. You get longer reach than with the 5d and even pro’s are using it, so it can’t be that fragile.
The sooner you buy the body the better, this “summer” won’t last forever and you miss a lot of oportunities to shoot the surfers while thinking about the change. Canon system is basically very strong in sports photography, 30d is a good body, what else do you need?
About the bulkiness of the 30d, I found it small and on a long lens it will disappear, it’s so tiny anyway.
Good luck with the buy.
I wish the dust were’nt a problem .. every pictures I took at the worlds last may had a lovely artifact on or around the horizon.. showed up because the sky was so blue. I’ve never noticed the dust in pictures with a greyer sky, or more mixed content.
The summer pretty much anywhere isn’t ideal for surf photogrphay – the better waves are every season but summer :)Now I just need to pull together the cash, pixmania have a really good deal on 30D’s at the moment.
lahinch_lass wrote:
pixmania have a really good deal on 30D’s at the moment.
Yeah … pixmania … hmmm. Do some googling on them first if you are considering buying from them. I’ve had (and others too) have had dodgy experiences with them.
Neh, no dustbuster on the 30D (and don’t I know it, being a lens-switchaholic). I’m addicted to my rocketblower and no stranger to Pecpads and Eclipse fluid either. It does have a proper sensor-cleaning mode though, where the mirror locks up and the shutter opens with the sensor powered down. Sounds like you may want to hang on a little while and see what Canon come up with for the 40D, although it seems like forever we’ve been waiting now. Must be soon.
I was down at Lahinch not long ago shooting surfers and even 210mm isn’t really long enough. I hope you’ve got the budget for at least 300mm/f/2.8 but preferably even longer. Canon’s big Ls are magic but they sure do cost.
joe_elway wrote:
lahinch_lass wrote:
pixmania have a really good deal on 30D’s at the moment.
Yeah … pixmania … hmmm. Do some googling on them first if you are considering buying from them. I’ve had (and others too) have had dodgy experiences with them.
I got my Minolta off them, not a bother.. except the manual was in French .. thankfully a helpful soul pointed me to the Maxxum 5D manual available online in the USA.
I’m hoping the Canon manuals are similarly available ?SteveFE wrote:
Neh, no dustbuster on the 30D (and don’t I know it, being a lens-switchaholic). I’m addicted to my rocketblower and no stranger to Pecpads and Eclipse fluid either. It does have a proper sensor-cleaning mode though, where the mirror locks up and the shutter opens with the sensor powered down. Sounds like you may want to hang on a little while and see what Canon come up with for the 40D, although it seems like forever we’ve been waiting now. Must be soon.
I was down at Lahinch not long ago shooting surfers and even 210mm isn’t really long enough. I hope you’ve got the budget for at least 300mm/f/2.8 but preferably even longer. Canon’s big Ls are magic but they sure do cost.
If you’re shooting in lahinch there are a couple of spots you can take shots from where a longer lens isn’t absolutely necessary… but you would be relying on the conditions to cooperate. You can go out on the rocks at the south end of the beach, or go along the cliff top, and there is a break that works on a higher tide.
My father is using a 100-300mm f4 from sigma at the moment, that was his best option on the budget he had available. He had one picture using it published in the examiner when all that coverage of the spot under the cliffs of moher happened.
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