40 or 50 or 60

I love my 40D but there is no comparison to the 50D. For me the higher ISO makes the difference. I am looking to upgrade to a 7D very soon but I have also looked at the 60D seriously. My advice would be to bypass the 50D and jump to the 60. For the price difference you get much more camera although the body being plastic on the 60D is a bit of a turnoff for me. But I suppose there is a tradeoff of all those features versus keeping the cost down.

(I’ve even been considering jumping ship to Nikon…that D7000 is a pretty sweet unit! But don’t tell anybody)

The metal body is the whole reason I went out of the Rebel line. I want to know that it will take a LITTLE abuse. Plus, I am highly dubious about the HD video. (In my experience the more things a piece of technology does, the more things there are to break. I want my SLR to be a VERY good SLR and that is it. Also, I don’t shoot video, I don’t WANT to shoot video, I am a still photographer not a budding film artiste.) The price difference between the 50 and 60 is almost no existent. I will think about the 60, but the plastic thing…

I’ve settled on the 50, the plastic was a player, keeping my current batteries and memory cards was the decision point. I had some friends try to get me to go full frame with 5D as well. In the end, the kind of photography I am currently doing just can’t justify FF cost. I’m just now starting to see a tiny trickle of money coming in from photography, but not enough to justify FF Goodness. Somewhere down the road, if my plans come together I will buy the big gun. For now: after months of buying old film cameras, which I love don’t get me wrong, the idea of having new digital makes me wiggly inside! 😀

So, I went with the 50D which arrived today. I took a minor risk the listing on ebay had the camera used with less than 10K shutter activations but the internal flash wasn’t popping up. I don’t use the internal flash so I risked it. Picked up the camera for 600 bucks. Which is a VERY Nice price on a 50D. The camera arrived today, sure enough the internal flash did not work. I did five minutes of research on the interwebs, located the fix, three seconds to fix, problem solved. Awesome deal on perfectly good camera!

Merry Christmas to me!

EOS info utility will tell you the exact shutter count. you can download it here. it works great! http://www.astrojargon.net/EOSInfo.aspx
Congrats on the camera! I just dropped my 40D and 50D off to be cleaned this morning.

Per EOS Info my new camera has 8,743 shutter activations. Nice.

/got a link to the flash fix? Kat’s 20D has a similar problem – you can ‘help’ it but it generally doesn’t pop up on it’s own

Inside the hotshoe there are two rails on either side of the shoe that are depressed when the Speedlite is mounted to the hotshoe.

These rails can either be stuck down or have gunk built up between them and the metal. Gently lift the rails (I used a small screwdriver) so they are not compressed and then clean (I used a q-tip) and that should correct the problem. (When these are down the camera things the speedlite is mounted and disables the internal flash)