There isn’t the same kind of blow-you-away difference between the 10D and the 30D as there was for me going from the D30 to the 20D (the 20D and 30D share the same sensor, I believe), but what did you think?
Unless you’re constraining your budget tightly and need to buy a used 30D, I recommend spending the extra money and getting a 40D new. Image quality isn’t meaningfully different from the 30D from what I can tell, but the user experience seems significantly better.
The real difference, I think, will show up later this weekend. The majority of my photography’s done ‘under the lights’ on high school sports fields. I took a couple quick shots inside last night, at iso1600, and the noise (or lack thereof) is slightly better on the 30. But yea, so far I’m inclined to agree with you – I don’t see a huge difference between images out of the 10 and the 30.
Oh, and the other immediately-obvious-to-me difference is a workflow one… I only have Photoshop CS (not CS2 or CS3), and that won’t read raw files from the 30D. I had to download Adobe’s DNG Converter and use that on all the images before I can start my work. Not a big deal, but it’s a difference.
There is a significant difference in the quality of the output between ACR in Photoshop CS and the one in CS2 and certainly in CS3. That’s a consideration, too.
[...] A Suburban Morning by Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]
[...] A Suburban Morning by Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]
[...] A Suburban Morning by Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]
[...] A Suburban Morning Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]
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November 8th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
There isn’t the same kind of blow-you-away difference between the 10D and the 30D as there was for me going from the D30 to the 20D (the 20D and 30D share the same sensor, I believe), but what did you think?
Unless you’re constraining your budget tightly and need to buy a used 30D, I recommend spending the extra money and getting a 40D new. Image quality isn’t meaningfully different from the 30D from what I can tell, but the user experience seems significantly better.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
The real difference, I think, will show up later this weekend. The majority of my photography’s done ‘under the lights’ on high school sports fields. I took a couple quick shots inside last night, at iso1600, and the noise (or lack thereof) is slightly better on the 30. But yea, so far I’m inclined to agree with you – I don’t see a huge difference between images out of the 10 and the 30.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Oh, and the other immediately-obvious-to-me difference is a workflow one… I only have Photoshop CS (not CS2 or CS3), and that won’t read raw files from the 30D. I had to download Adobe’s DNG Converter and use that on all the images before I can start my work. Not a big deal, but it’s a difference.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
There is a significant difference in the quality of the output between ACR in Photoshop CS and the one in CS2 and certainly in CS3. That’s a consideration, too.
November 16th, 2007 at 9:59 am
I’d gladly accept any cast off 10d or 20d :)
November 19th, 2007 at 5:26 am
[...] A Suburban Morning by Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]
November 20th, 2007 at 11:04 am
[...] A Suburban Morning by Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]
November 21st, 2007 at 3:47 pm
[...] A Suburban Morning by Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]
November 25th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
[...] A Suburban Morning Steven Vore – Steven’s Notebook “I took a camera to work (my office is 2 miles from my home, so I’m still within the “5 mile” rule), and about 11am went for a walk to see what I could see. On one side of the parking lot were all the colors of fall, with some green still peeking through the yellows and greens. On the other side, construction; torn, brown and ugly.” [...]