I am contemplating supplementing my EOS-3 with this camera next year, as I am anyway looking for a digital camera for family photos etc. Has anyone here photographed aircraft with it? I was a bit dismayed to read that its autofocus cannot track moving objects like the EOS-3 and 10D (which is too expensive for my liking).
By: Kenneth - 21st November 2003 at 21:43
Thanks for your qualified expert replies! As regards the “sports” mode, I formulated the posting wrongly as I was aware of the fact that it could track objects in this mode, but I am not too keen on these all-automatic modes. If I were to buy a “consumer” camera for family snapshots – which I also use the EOS-3 for now – I would be looking at a camera in the € 500-600 range. I switched from print to slide films a while ago, which my flatbed scanner is not very good at, so I’d need a slide scanner then for the aircraft photos from the EOS-3 (in order to be able to continue bothering people here with my photos) and that would be at least another € 400. Adding these up, you’re very close to the price of an EOS-300D; that was my reasoning behind acquiring this camera.
By: Snapper - 21st November 2003 at 21:18
I’d sell or trade in the EOS 3. (Unless you have a specific reason to continue with film – ie infrared, slide, or hand printing monochrome work). Damien tempted me into going digital, and since that time (May?) I have ONLY used my film bodies (2 35mm Canons, 3 35mm Nikons and a 6×9 Fuji) for jobs where I have been working for another photographer who insisted on film.
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November 21, 2003 at 8:59 pm