Canon EOS 20D 8.2MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon EOS 20D 8.2MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)
Customer Review: Incredible Camera !
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best camera I've tested. Of course this is NOT the cheapest camera, but if you really love photography this is the product for you !Customer Review: Great Camera
Summary: 5 Stars
The camera is everything I expected it to be and more. Give me a year or so and I may be up to speed on all of it. Everything has been splendid.
Customer Review: Canon 20D is it!
Summary: 5 Stars
The 20D is wonderful for my photography business. It is instant on and only takes a quick second to pull up previews of pictures. Other digital cameras of the professional grade took too long to record the image before you could view it. Sharp, quick, and flexible. I would buy this camera in a heartbeat if I was still shopping for one!Customer Review: Best of the Best
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my 4th digital camera, the previous 3 being point and shoot and I still have my latest point and shoot for the movie capability (S1 IS). The 20D is also my second SLR, my first SLR I still have after 23 years, but more for sentimental reasons, these days.
I did a lot of research before deciding on this camera. Original research started about a year before the purchase, but, at that time did not have a need for DSLR until now. My primary reason for going to DSLR is for the low-noise as it is very important for astrophotography.
Similar to another reviewer, I also considered the 350D and the Nikon D70. I had some advantage regarding the D70 as my brother owns one. The heated decision came between the 350D and the 20D. Size/weight were only a minor consideration for me, but I really did like the metal body of the 20D. I found sites with samples of astrophotos from the 350D as well as the D70. The D70 has an inherent heat problem for long exposures and develops a "hot area" in the upper left portion of the images. The noise reduction it has is effective for reducing this, but I just didn't like the fact that it existed. Comparing 350D results to 20D, well, one would be pressed to notice the differences. However, in looking closely at review sites (such as dpreview), even they admitted the clarity on the 20D edged out the 350D (what is nice, you can see for yourself in their images). No, not a big difference at all, but I am wanting the best of the 2 at this point.
In the end, my decision was for the 20D mostly because this is the very camera Canon themselves used to create a camera purely for astrophotography - the 20Da. My thought is, if Canon chose this, there is a reason. I did not want the 20Da, however, as I plan to use the 20D for "normal" shooting, as well...but I was sold on the 20D.
Having used it for more than a week, I put it through some gruesome tests...including, of course, long exposures. I wanted to check for hot pixels at 30 sec exposures. The short version is: I checked with the Canon 5D results on dpreview and my results are on par with it...and the 5D price is nearing 3 times the 20D price.
Also, in more tests, I have found the 20D noise reduction has improved (I am guessing with the newer firmware my camera has) over what the results are on the dpreview site.
Oh, and of course (for fun) I compared results from the point and shoots I have/have had. I still have results from my A40 and S1 and, at ISO400 the point and shoots are blown so far out of the water you just can't find them.
I am a very happy person. An outstanding camera.
Canon 20D: Highly recommended on all points.
Customer Review: The perfect camera allmost for me!
Summary: 5 Stars
Having owned and loved my 10D but for not very long my very honest and not to over-sale camera sales person suggested I not upgrade. He shoots wide angle a lot and I am a rapid fire person, forever and qucikly changing focal length who loves to take kids without them knowing and rarely miss or use a wide angle per se. So his counter part disagreed owning both the 10 and 20 D and I followed suit and have been very impressed but at the same time also upgraded myself to the 20D lens series with the 17-85 lens and the "L glass and Image stabiliazation" as my guy says. The lens that comes with the camera is pretty musch garbage and should be bought with body only or with the upgrade to this fine L lens series unless wanting to go into the thousands for each lens. The pictures have been fabulous so I am not sure how much due to the upgrade to the 20 or the upgrade of the lens. I am dissappointed in the focal length however as previously with an off brand but good 28-200 and I loved the fact I could be taking the whole pool at a party or the nose of a kid and they did not know. This new lens does not provide the length I like so will now purchase the 70 to 200 but consider this a crucial point in terms of focal lentgh to be switching lenses and with the time to switch out a lens and I have numb hands. I am concerned it will slow down my style. Other canon lenses are either in the thousands or lack the image stabilization or the wonderful glass quality of this new 20D series. I will keep a new Tamaron 28 - 200 for the cases in which I feel this is the best alternative as when not needing the same quality and not wanting to change. Also as a red eye hater and I do not care how manty photo editing programs you have, I would only have this or any camera with the flash attachment and find my 550 from the 10d just fine. Be careful as their are items now for just the 20D and not interchangeable with the 10D and I have seen people dissappointed receiving the wrong information. This is a fabulous camera and the sports function is a blast for making of slide shows with photos. Set the time of each photo at one second and the sliide show resembles a video and yet you have the beauty of the pictures. Buy a basic book on how to shoot what you shoot and you can not go wrong. The only way to go wrong is to not take pictures at the highest level even if you still are so excited about how wonderful it is you get more pictures at shooting at a lower level. You must buy a good and I mean a good gig compact flash disk. ( at least one) Why brag about the price of your costco cheap gig disk with slow processing when spending the money for a camera with quick? Also then should of bought the lower level mega pixel any way. Let your email program condense but do not loose the ability to crop! Take, take, take and remember that the best pros used to say of a roll of 36 you were lucky if one picture turns out good maybe two. Do not analyse your roll in playback while shooting or you will miss the next great shot but have discovered the hard to take child can easily be brought into the process by taking their picture, checking for focus and then in playback showing them how you can magnify to their eye lashes. This gets them all the time. Then they are fun and relaxed and no more mug shots as they now want to see how you can do that. Also the joy of the garbage can. I took 450 pictures of my kids school during the halloween festivities and submit to the yearbook but my passion. Why not take so many. You should see my collectiuon of shots. 450 no way. 475 with the cropping out of individuals and garbage canning the not good. No editing, usually just the cropping and done. Then back up and remember the pictures you print today will be gone in 30 to 40 years so the back up on disk mandatory as that wonderful scrapbook that will not have pictures most likely by the time little Johnny now 3 months has kids at 35 can be redone or the pictures still here. Keep that film camera and bring it out no matter how it hurts or feels good and take some black and white four times a year on film for archival records. Set four holidays or special days you will remember and shoot 100 of your family and items of the era. Then you will have the ones here in 300 years for your decendents. Also if you have the disk space save those photos not quite yet saveable by your current abilities or editing software as in the future the technology may be here to get the horribly out of focus one you took of Julie at her first day of kindergarten as she moved too fast focused and looking good or you may learn more. Problems in future include use of compact flash cards instead of smaller disks for memory and the fact of the pins wearing down so try and use a memory card reader vs the camera when downloading. In two years the pins on my 10 d need replacing based on there being prone to damage and bending even when careful, so the camera with extended warranty is needing to go back to Cannon for fixing and now OK but hard to give up camera for 6 to 8 weeeks. Also when push comes to shove if you know your cannon product, no matter the level of customer the support will stand behind you, Technically if you buy from them or another rep whether online or real store and the product deficient from the start the rule of Cannon is you send it back to Cannon and even if it never worked, you are to take for repair or send in for a refurbrished replacement. After buying a i1990 printer for $500 with a rebate of $100 and it never even printed a picture I thought I deserved a new replacement. There is no such thing with Cannon as a "lemon" with a new replacement. They eventually agreed and were very quick about sticking behind their product but then I own the eos elan II e, the 10 d, the 20 d, bought the printer, was talking about a new video so who knows. At least they knew not to make mad a loyal customer but had to go to supervisor and believe nice carries more weight. The use of pictbridge color vs. Print image matching is also a concern as Canon is one of the few to stick with their own system making it a necessity to buy their printers in many cases. Make sure to have a pict bridge printer or you will be disappointed and editing everything as with my set up the 20 d talks to my mac, the mac to my epson with print image matching but since it does not have the pict bridge functioning as well the compact flash can not "speak" to the printer carrt with it the inportant color or exposure information. Without a pict bridge printer to read the quality poor unless editing constantly and with this camera this is not necessary unless you want to change in some graphical sense and not help. This makes it impossible to easily acheive the same colors you see on your screen of your computre and also the matchiung LCD on the camera when printing. For fun and speed the epson 4 x 6 priinter with the LCD display even though more than some counter parts is great for those occassions as it is pictbridge and my kids love for me to take pictures at playdates or sleep overs and then i get them going on a non messy project of a scrapbook with a three hole punch into 12 by 12 paper and markers with a yarn tie or the decorating of foam frames. This keeps the kids busy and they love going home with a framed picture or a few pages of a scrapbook and then I put my kids in a book and the kids are busy and happy for two hours. Worth the 29 cents per print. Make sure you have a pict bridge printer as my new i1990 great and my my brother the 800 something he loves despite using a non cannon camera of lower quality and he needs to edit too much. Looks fake but not due to printer. Good luck. Not a good customer of the 5d for me as not wide angle, you should be sold a camera for how you shoot, not just the camera. My girlfriend bought an olympus, a fine camera, SLR, for $3000, but portrait with slow processor and no sports mode and yet 3 sons out there stealing first all the time. Good camera, wrong fit. Tell the person who you are and how you shoot, go to a good store and then buy here if you want. Anyone ever try to use the amazon extra warranty? I have not had the occasion to use it and now knowing Cannons policy would wonder about exchanges as I know if I buy from the toys r us link the store easily takes something back whether they carry it or not. amazon you are great in every way. i come to you instead of consumer reports or the magazines to get product information thru customer reviews. All is well. Do not go anywhere. Why is my sons math book $70 however. Not you I am sure. Horrible. I know so much about the printers as had to trouble shoot on my own. No cannon, apple or epson person knew about it but the reviews on amazon had others commenting so I knew not just me. So then i get it and then the release of the info in the trades. Any one can recomend a high quality and a midrange Cannon Video?