Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>My Canon 10D is supposed to be here Monday, with a 24-70 Canon lens and an >adapter for my R lenses. I know I'll save time and money. I looked at the >1Ds but it's huge in my hands. If you get it, let me know what you think. <Tina Tina The EOS 1Ds "is" huge and too heavy. Even used to hand Nikon F5 and Leica R8 with winder it's very large even for me a man of 125 kilograms (260 pounds I believe)! And, besides, the 24-70 f:2.8 "is" too large and heavy (I use the 28-70) but images are excellent. The very large number of features and buttons of the camera may impress the new user but, as always, is a matter of practice. You can set the camera customized at your choice and then is right easy: for instance: manual focus, centre weight metering and aperture priority as the only way of shooting. Or let it on "everything automatic" as finally I do after checking that the camera is better then me, except some really tricky situations. The 10D, you'll see, is much easier of handling, battery last many, many shots and a Giga CF card or microdrive stores many pictures...Just the problem is to see back the pictures of 30/60/10D when you've shooted with the 1Ds! I see clearly in my future M7 and 1Ds as only film and digital cameras. And probably in a couple of years only the second one. Speaking with Canon people last week I sincerely believe that in some years no "high end" SLR will appear. A lot of consumer or prosumer but not admiral flagships. So it's probably a good investment. Kind regards Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html