Is Canon 20D excellent camera? Now, after two months of using it, should say testing it, after taking few thousands of pictures in different situations: porters, landscapes, flowers, during the days and nights, I must say… yes! It really is excellent digital, semi professional camera. Great for those of us who want they photographs to stand out from the crowd. Those who like spending a bit extra to get the best possible result and after downloading pics to the computer have the nice feeling of the great job they just have done.
Canon 20D is my 3rd Canon camera but firs digital from Canon stable (12th in general, yes have done few pics). Canon products have always been excellent quality in picture processing. My other Canon cameras were: 500 and 50E (the last one was excellent camera with eye control device - state of art; wish the 20D had it). Both of them were great, but none of them can even compare to 20D. That monster (did I just say that?) is great in every aspect of photography. Is well designed (as all Canon children), is well equipped as for semi professional camera and heavy, what is an attribute of 'proper' (read: professional) camera (yes, photographers life is heavy!).
Body
The camera body gives you a nice filing of well balanced device with ergonomics in mind. Is actually quite simply built with clearly and handy located buttons and dials, there are 17 buttons and 3 dials, lens mount, built-in flash, connection terminal, battery compartment, CF memory card cover, LCD monitor and tripod socket. Just about everything you would need.
The camera buttons and dials were very well placed. At the beginning I had small problem with shutter button, it's been placed slightly further than in Canon SLR cameras. But after several minutes I got use to it. Before even reading the manual I was able to identify purpose of most of the buttons and dials. It's really intuitive layout. Canon users will not have any problem with finding out the purpose of most of the buttons as Canon makes the layout according to its principals. So whatever Canon SLR you have had before 20D is no exception and its layout is very Canon like.
There are two features worth mentioning. The first one is dioptric adjustment, would be appreciated by spectacles users. You can adjust the diopter using small knob (dial) on side of the viewfinder (the camera's adjustable dioptric range is: -3 to +1 dpt) and see a sharp image even without your glasses. I love that gizmo as I do not need to remember to put my glasses on in order to see the scene sharp through the viewfinder or wander: where have I left my glasses?! The second is LCD Panel Illumination, its helps to see the vital information on the panel in difficult conditions such as: harsh light, dark, etc.
The Package includes good software enabling you to edit and manipulate your photographs. You should not need to buy any extra software, unless you are professional photographer. Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 is slightly out of date (current version is 4.0) but still good enough for home users. EOS Viewer Utility allows you to manipulate RAW photographs, quite powerful software, i.e. you can apply digital color filters, etc. EOS Capture is for remote shooting, not really useful. PhotoStitch is for creating panoramic pictures (I didn't like it).The manual for EOS software is included and easy to follow. Connecting the camera to you my computer was easy and straight forward. It took me just few seconds!
Memory wasn't included, shame! I bought 2G and it claims to take up to 490 best quality pictures on it.
The lens included (18-55) is good enough for everyday use. I have my old 75-300 lens, which in terms of digital is 120-480! Great! What else would you need? Something 55-120 would be nice, wouldn't it? But just one warning, do not buy it in the first shop on your way! Shop around. I bought my Canon 20D for £699 at Jacobs.
Thank you reading and good luck.
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