60Da question

[gregf]

<p>I am looking at getting a 60Da. Does anyone have experience with it, or even 20Da? According to some reviews on Amazon, it can shoot regular photo's in Daylight, is this true? Thanks</p>

[Michael R Freeman]

<p>FWIW, this is quoted directly from the Canon USA page for the EOS 60Da (<a href="http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_60da">link</a>):</p>

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<p><em>The EOS 60Da DSLR is not suitable for normal shooting; proper color balance may not be obtained.</em></p>

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<p>I guess as relates to your question, one could imply that the key words in the above statement are "<em>may</em> not" rather than "<em>can</em> not". Still ...</p>

<p>No personal experience with either.</p>

[William Michael]

<p>following on from Michael and the quoted link . . . I can comment on the EOS 20Da.:</p>

<p>In the Instruction Manual for the EOS20Da, there is a warning about ‘regular photography’ with the camera: in summary the images will usually appear more reddish, than is normal. <br>

The Instruction Manual suggested using an infra-red cut filter if the 20Da were to be used for ‘regular photography’. <br>

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More specifically, below are two extracts from an answer to my enquiry and correspondence with Canon, several years ago:</p>

<p><em>“Canon recommends that the 20Da is not designed for conventional daytime or flash photography. The standard EOS 20D would be a better choice.</em><br>

<em> </em><br /><em>The EOS 20D uses a 7-layer infrared-cutting filter which also has low-pass functions. In the EOS 20Da, this filer has been modified. The EOS 20Da is about 2.5x more sensitive to a specific red light wavelength. Contrary to some reports the EOS20D does NOT increase infrared transmission in the invisible infrared part of the spectrum. It affects one specific wavelength of red in visible red area of light, to allow certain astro subjects to be photographed with more accuracy and intensity.” [. . .]</em><br>

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<em>[. . . ] “Using an EOS20Da for regular photography will result in images having a high degree of reddish tones. You may compensate by using a software program. This may be accomplished using the Canon Digital Photo Professional application. It is possible to make changes to one image and save these changes for batch processing.</em><br /><br /><em>Canon recommends for normal daylight or flash photography an infrared-cutting or ‘hot mirror’ filter, which are available at camera stores, should be used.”</em></p>

<p>I didn't purchased the EOS20Da, because it occurred to me that the Camera would not really suit my purposes - which were more aligned with IR photography (i.e. what I was used to with IR Film) than 'astro photography'. The reason for me contacting Canon's Technical Department, was to clear up the confusion and misinformation around this point. </p>

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[gregf]

<p>Thanks both of you for responding. That's what I thought until I read the Amazon reviews where people were saying it could be used for daylight photography. I guess I wanted an astro body with a free crop body thrown in!</p>

[ed_avis2]

<p>My understanding is that it can indeed be used for daylight photography, you just have to be a bit careful with colour adjustment in post-processing. Or just convert all your images to black and white...</p>

[bobatkins]

<p>The 20Da isn't an IR camera and it still has an IR cut filter. It just has extended red sensitivity for h-alpha. I've not used one myself but I suspect that if you shoot RAW you'll be able to get a pretty decent color balance by tweaking the WB parameters or using the dropper to select white balance from a neutral area.</p>