My Canon 60D Arrived

[imschur]

Well the camera arrived and has given me a bit of mixed feelings. First off if you handled this camera and the Nikon D90 side by side in a store you would never buy this camera over the Nikon. The Nikon kills it with construction and quality of the controls and buttons. The has the fel and build of a low end pro camera. Someone wrote that the 60D is a high end Canon Rebel. I agree with that.

However out of the box with a $99 50mm f/1.8 Canon lens my first results are stunning.

A really neat feature and obviously aimed at consumers is a setting called "Creative Auto". It's basically auto with a slider to control the blur (depth of field) behind the subject. Of course DOF also depends on the lens.

Im going to spend this rainy day messing with it and deciding if it's a keeper or not.

[bdavison]

That's been my experience with Canon also. I've always preferred Nikon's construction. Even the little D40 was a rock solid no-squeak body, the Canons just feel plasticy to me.

But what the Canon lacks in ergos or asthetics, it makes up for in performance. Super bright vivid color processing, and the low light performance is in my opinion why they are so appreciated by the sports photography crowd.

I still prefer Nikon's image processing though. Mainly because I dont shoot sports. I do portrait, with a lot of candids. I like the more humble color tones, and rawness in the nikon processing.

[imschur]

Here's two of the first pictures I took today with proper white balance. Both pictures are cropped in photoshop. One picture is the .jpg direct from the camera and the other is a raw converted to jpg.

I think this camera is going to reduce my photoshop time a lot  :thumb:

[imschur]

btw the tint of the background in the second picture is real. Its the wood from the table under my white fabric

[imschur]

and another

[imschur]

and another

[imschur]

BTW these picture were all taken in program mode which means if I change a setting the camera adjusts everything else to compensate.

Off to try Aperture priority next.....

[rodent.22]

Man after blowing these pics up they are clear as a bell.... :thumb:

[Microgunner]

The photos are really quite resolute. And they appear warmer than digital photos of the past, closer to film in this respect.

[bdavison]

Ive got a bunch of photos from my nikon d60 on

http://bdavisonphoto.blogspot.com/

You can click on them to view full res.

[imschur]

Nice pictures. I found the Indians to be quite interesting.

[imschur]

Last one

http://tactical22.net/cgcc.jpg 

Download that to your pc. It's a jpg of my Gold Cup directly from the camera. Aperture priority f/11 1/6sec iso 100.

View it full size

[Microgunner]

I looked at your Colt photo. These new digital cameras are impressive. I blew it up 500% and it never did go grainy. Much better than 35mm. More like what I used to get from medium or even large format. Nice pistol too.  :thumb:

[imschur]

Im finding it much easier to take better pictures with this Camera than my D90. A huge difference for me is the jpg's good enough from the Canon. I could never get the D90 to make great jpgs. I know it can be done though. With the Nikon I shoot RAW and jpg. I use the jpg's for review and process the RAW files in photoshop. With the Canon Im going to turn off raw and just stick with jpg avoiding the whole post processing pain.

99.9 percent of my pictures are for my websites and not prints.

The real funny part is this is a $99 50mm lens. Makes me wonder what the $1300 50mm is capable of. Ill never know  ;D

[Microgunner]

It's been my experience with film cameras that the expensive f1.0 normal lens' only significant advantage over the f1.8 normal was speed. Photo quality was virtually the same otherwise. The expensive high speed lenses are just more versatile and for that reason, in my experience, worth the extra cash. I spent most of my photo equipment money on lenses. Never stopped seeking out better ones. The bodies were secondary, especially since I shot only in full manual mode with a hand held meter. Virtually any decent body would do. In film photography the 3 factors that effect photo quality the most are the film, the lens and the photographer.

[bdavison]

Id agree with that.

Lenses are definitely where you should put the money in a camera setup.

[imschur]

A while ago I learned not to buy the lenses for the cropped sensors like the DX