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I own both, and have a 5d MKII and a 7d.

 

you mentioned weddings.... So save for the 24-70. It has a perfect range and it's 2.8. It has almost no distortion. the 17-40 is great for

tight places but there's a lot of distortion. I love the 24-70 it's on my 5d almost exclusively it's never let me down. Also being a canon user

for over 10 years and tried many third party brands for lenses.... I've never found a lens that can out perform a Canon brand lens... I sold

all my sigmas, and other brand lenses and purchased Canon lenses.

 

The 17-40 is affordable and small but I don't think it produces the same quality images as the 24-70.

I own the 24-70 and I really like it. Its always the fall-back lens. When I'm not sure what to take I grab the 24-70.<div></div>

I took a quick look but they really dont compare well...

 

XSI is on the left 40D on the right.

But I also meant in terms of the build quality

 

<img src="http://www.robotechcad.com/40d-xsi.jpg">

NO IT DOESNT, you cant compare the XSI to either in terms of IQ.

 

You can read more about the IQ issue here:

 

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/canon-40D-handson.shtml

 

September 21, 2007 - Comments from Knowledgable Users

The 40D is now in wide distribution and so people are able to see for themselves how the IQ of this camera compares to that of the 5D. Many on some forums were annoyed (to put it midly) that I had the gall to say that the image quality was comparable. Well, it's turned out that I'm not alone in this opinion.

 

"BTW just purchased a Canon 40D and have begun to experiment with it. Experience has been limited to this point, but so far I concur completely with your analysis of IQ. It's interesting, isn't it, that so many individuals out there want to believe that the state of the art in digital imaging equipment exists somewhere in the recent past and are incredulous that something new could be better than last year's best".

 

ﾖ A well known professional photographer with more than 30 photo books to his credit.

 

"I have used Canon 5D since it came out on the market and now I have used Canon 40D for a few weeks (and a few thousands of images). I have made some simple tests to compare IQ and as far as I can see you are quite correct ﾖ there is no difference between the two in IQ as far as I can see.

 

As a wildlife photographer Iﾒm very pleased with the speed of 40D especially right now with the rutting season for red deer. I often have

to use ISO 1600 and the noise is not worse than 5D".

 

ﾖ A professional Swedish wildlife photographer

The main difference between 5D and 40D is the full frame..... the IQ has been proven to be about the same from many pro's including Michael Reichmann from Luminous-landscape.com

 

The guy here wanted to get away using the cheaper XSI why would you ask him to go with the 5D which is double of the price of the 40D come on....

 

The guy would be well served with a 40D since its not a consumer camera.

have you heard of Craigslist? be safe deal with locals..... No fees!

 

I just sold my 70-200 2.8 IS

Canon 24-70 2.8 L, used on my 40D its just perfect for most shots great build, good size.

 

I really like the 50mm f1.4 too its a great deal

 

 

I had the 70-200 2.8 L IS but didnt like the range....

Did you use the 17-40 on the XTi I know the "L" lens family has great contrast. Also if you

Shoot as JPG the camera by default will over-saturate and sharpen the image to make it

"pop". If you shoo in RAW you would get similar results by adjusting the saturation slider.

 

You can also use a white balancing card to adjust the colors later.

I buy all my ink from:

private.abacus24-7.com

 

I been using them for years for full color brochures in my office and photos at home with my:

 

S900

i9100

i860

Pixma6000

 

and others.... I never had issues.

Just point your 40D to a scene with a bright light bulb, use the custom function and check the results against the same photo without the feature you'll see that the there will be a lot more blown out areas on Highlight Off.

 

Its a huge difference.

I have a video iPod and have the connector and external USB2.0 card reader... the performance is supper slow in part I think because the iPod proccessed the images and makes "a library" from the files which it uses to display the images on its screen.... if there was a way to turn off the processing maybe it would be quicker.

All the lenses that were mentioned above are great lenses but are better suited for full frame

of film cameras do the 50mm will be something like an 80mm..... thats telephoto already.

 

I own a EF35mm F2 which is great because I can be pretty close to the subject if you had a

50mm you will have to back-up and if you're indoors that might not be an option.

 

Peace!

If you're taking pictures for fun JPG is fine, if you make any modifications to the image such as sharpen or color curves, save the JPG to TIF so you wont recompress the image. No need to change any DPI settings at all, dependending on the print size you will get different DPI automatically. If you have a good photo printer suck as the 6/7 color Epson or canon using good quality paper you can obtain good results at home.

I agree with Mark, dont worry about 72dpi, this is only used while printing, a 6MP picture can be printed many different dpi settings the results will only increase/decrease the image size on paper.

 

DONT use PS to resample espexially if you are using JPG file format or you will loose a lot a quality when you re-save/re-compress

Do the spots happen on the same place on all the pictures?

Do you have another lens you can try?

 

Usually dust on the sensor seems gray/black while dust on the lens sometimes appears white...

 

I hope this helps

If you go down this page on the left bar you'll see a box of wool spools, I think they're trying to show the color differences between 3 to 4 color filter on the F828, click on the image to enlarge, pretty clean huh? no noise great colors

 

 

 

http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/DSC/DSC-F828/feat1.html

Shutter lag is not tied to type of camera, and the 300d is a prosumer camera just like sony

Many people complain smaller sensor.... noise. Go to the Japanese sony website, they have a shot of a box of wool spools anf there's no noise and looks super sharp

For one thing the 10d is much faster, you can shoot 9 consec. pictures just by holding the shutter down for a few secs.

shoot mostly at night or dim light to acquire that coveted B/W effect ...lol

 

sorry I had too, but the guy with the b/w compact falsh takes the cake that was really funny

I owned the Dimage7 and the 7i (5megapixel) and aside from the battery issue everything else was fine. The 7hi has a recharable pack so that should be fine.

I sold my canon 10d + lenses because of soft focus, dust/sensor issues to buy the sony. Lets hope this images were taken by an idiot using heavy compression to explain the lack of quality. And lets give Sony a chance their product are usually top notch. The second image is not focused on anything... complete crap.....

I rather have the sony, no dust problems mainly. The lenses on the sony were designed for that camera only. The higher lens you can buy are more expensive and are compatible but not "designed" for the 300d. I owned the Canon 10d and was diaappointed with the dust issues, and soft focus issues and that was a $2000+ camera with a decent lens. I can picture the 300 being way worse just in construction meaning more issues with dust and focus. The Sony seems like a better deal, until we get samples from both this topic is pretty much useless... one opinion against another

Hello Alex, I've owned about 20 digital cameras since my casio QV-10 my last one was the 10D. I love the feel/look and speed of the 10D but also had a lot of trouble with the AF, it mostly didn't focus on the subject. I would say over 3/4 of all my pictures suffer from softness. I even bought 3 different lenses before figuring out that it wasn't the lens that was the trouble. You can start by using the on-camera sharpness unless you want to run Photoshop Unsharp Mask Sharpening tool. You can check the sharpness of the image by sing the LCD monitor and zoom all the way in then backout one step, if it doesn't look sharp it isn't. Of course if you're going to resize it for webuse or print it "Letter" or smaller size even if looks a little soft it will come out "OK". My old Minolta Dimage 7i was sharper all around than this. I think that non SLR digitals have an edge in the sense that the lens was specifically made for the cam plus there are no dust issues (which I had in my first month with the 10d). Digital SLRs are far from air tight and dust will be an issue. As you can see I have some issues with this cam... when if fosuses its impressive beautiful colors really great photos... when it doesn't it reminds you that you paid $1500 + $500 lenses and you had better results with cheaper equipment. Anyway Goodluck I think canon should admit there are a few issues with the camera, instead of recomending that you sharpen the pics in photoshop or tell you that soft is normal for digital when it is not. Peace!<div></div>