Psilos
Bird Journal |
Thursday October
18th 2007 |
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"New
beginnings - Me and my 30d" |
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Not expecting to receive my
new camera until early next week I was amazed and delighted when it
turned up this morning. After much research and with a desire to get
a camera which was superior in every way to the 350d I decided upon
the Canon 30d. Now it was time to take it on its first test run. So
with some trepidation and not a great deal of time I took a trip to
one of my local parks. |
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Over the last few months I
had become very frustrated with the slow buffer speed on the 350d. Switching
to raw meant this camera struggled to produce enough frames per second
to keep up with the action shots that I wanted to take. The Canon 30d
has 5fps. Watching the local Black headed gulls squabbling over sitting
rights to the pondside posts I was delighted with the speed of this
camera. My only problem was that I had come out without looking up how
to program AI servo into my camera and so the action had to be taken
on one spot. Not ideal but I managed. It was a lesson to learn the next
time I was out. |
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and the action
cropped in quite heavily. Today wasnt the best light but I thought the
camera handled it well. |
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| The Canon 30d also has very
fast auto focusing which makes action and flight shots so much easier. |
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The auto focusing also locks
on and keeps hold on moving birds particularly in dense foliage. This
robin kept hopping about and was quite agitated but the af performed
well. It is also impressively sharp. The heron below was photographed
from at least 20 yards. With just his head visible this was quite a
challenge for the af. The image is a huge crop and it stayed pin sharp
all the way! |
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After the first hour with this
camera I was very impressed. I loved the faster fps and the speed of
the AF. I cannot wait to test drive it further! |
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