Today I got my EOS 500D. Yesterday I sold my old 20D.
500D was around 790 € with kit lens. I already have a 18-55mm IS, but the body only wasn´t available and costs only 20 € less.
First impressions:
The LCD - wow! Amazing, really. It´s so beautifully sharp and bright, my 30D display really stinks compared to it. Manual focussing is no problem with this display.
The body - although it isn´t a x0D camera, it feels solid and good. There are enough buttons for good control.
Liveview - really useful. AF is pretty slow, however it´s very accurate.
Movie mode - yes, one reason I bought it because it has a movie mode. The quality is superb and smashes most camcorders. Sound is only Mono but also very good.
Manual focussing is no problem, AF is too slow and screwdriver lenses make too much noise.
Movie quality is much better as this one from the Nikon D90. The 500D don´t has the wobbling issue and I don´t noticed the rolling shutter issue, too.
So, let´s come to the stills ;-) . Files are really big. RAW is around 20-27MB each one, even the JPEGs can be around 9MB big. Funny the JPEGs are bigger than the RAWs of my old trusty 30D.
RAW processing with DPP is fine, however even the JPEGs out of the camera look fine. The combination of HTP and ALO gives me good images I don´t need to PP because they are bright enough and I don´t need to recover highlights.(HT works only between ISO200-3200)
Metering is a bit too enthusiastic, I think -0,3 or -0,7 would be good to avoid overexposured images.
ISO12800 is a nice option for very bad light conditions. IQ is ok with a little bit NR. I don´t think that anyone is going to print big prints from ISO12800 shots, however ISO12800 still looks better than a lot of compact cameras at base ISO, really.
I will test around these days with this new camera, I think I have to buy some new memory cards because I only have some old SD cards and my only class 6 SDHC card has only 4GB. This camera eats up disk space very fast.
Some samples with 17-40mm L(all JPEGs from camera, only resized, first one a bit cropped):
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You made a picture...fine!
500D was around 790 € with kit lens. I already have a 18-55mm IS, but the body only wasn´t available and costs only 20 € less.
First impressions:
The LCD - wow! Amazing, really. It´s so beautifully sharp and bright, my 30D display really stinks compared to it. Manual focussing is no problem with this display.
The body - although it isn´t a x0D camera, it feels solid and good. There are enough buttons for good control.
Liveview - really useful. AF is pretty slow, however it´s very accurate.
Movie mode - yes, one reason I bought it because it has a movie mode. The quality is superb and smashes most camcorders. Sound is only Mono but also very good.
Manual focussing is no problem, AF is too slow and screwdriver lenses make too much noise.
Movie quality is much better as this one from the Nikon D90. The 500D don´t has the wobbling issue and I don´t noticed the rolling shutter issue, too.
So, let´s come to the stills ;-) . Files are really big. RAW is around 20-27MB each one, even the JPEGs can be around 9MB big. Funny the JPEGs are bigger than the RAWs of my old trusty 30D.
RAW processing with DPP is fine, however even the JPEGs out of the camera look fine. The combination of HTP and ALO gives me good images I don´t need to PP because they are bright enough and I don´t need to recover highlights.(HT works only between ISO200-3200)
Metering is a bit too enthusiastic, I think -0,3 or -0,7 would be good to avoid overexposured images.
ISO12800 is a nice option for very bad light conditions. IQ is ok with a little bit NR. I don´t think that anyone is going to print big prints from ISO12800 shots, however ISO12800 still looks better than a lot of compact cameras at base ISO, really.
I will test around these days with this new camera, I think I have to buy some new memory cards because I only have some old SD cards and my only class 6 SDHC card has only 4GB. This camera eats up disk space very fast.
Some samples with 17-40mm L(all JPEGs from camera, only resized, first one a bit cropped):
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You made a picture...fine!