Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]yup you can see, focus and shoot in pretty dim light, though I'd prefer the R8/9 finder...there are compensations. Steve Nathan Wajsman wrote: > I agree with everything Ted and B.D. have said in this thread. I have > owned an R8 and I still own a Leicaflex SL. There is no doubt that the > viewfinders of those are superior to that on my 20D. But let's not > overdo it: I find the 20D viewfinder perfectly adequate, even when the > light is such that ISO settings of 1600 or 3200 are called for. It is > good, not great like Leica. > > As for the while balance, I find it a lot easier to do color correction > when I convert the RAW files from the 20D than when I have a slide scan > with a cast. And finally, I think that if anything, the Canon pre-sets > favor overexposure--on the 10D I had exposure compensation of -1/2 stop > set permanently, although the 20D is better in this regard. > > Nathan > > Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > >> I wouldn't go so far that it's out of the box ready to shoot. To date >> Canon has never been able to have a clean white balance. Chances are >> you'll have to do a custom reset of the white balance. And never mind >> the proverbial Canon exposure presets, digital or film camera, that >> are consistently set for underexposure. But at least they are inching >> their way out of a hole with better flash exposure settings. >> S. Dimitrov >> >