Box Opening Ceremony
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The first power up!!
It was a long and gruelling 4-5 months using Canon equipments. I realised that the canon eos 40D was far below my expectations. In fact, I wouldn't dare to say that, to avoid a drive-by shooting by Canon fans out there. In case someone took that seriously, that was meant to be a joke, *chuckle Chuckle*. Yes, I'd rather sell all equipments that I have if i figured that it didn't work with my style of shooting and start over if i had to, so i did exactly that. Let me explain.
The real story is that I just can't shoot with Canon cameras LAH. To those who understand some photography terms out there, there were a few mechanism/ paradigm that Canon digital Slrs have that I just could work with, namely the WB (White Balance), the light metering, Focusing. Just cannot LAH.
Yes, Canon cameras suck at choosing the correct white balance. To make is plain and simple, that simply pissed me off. Why? I started out shooting using a point and shoot, then a zoom/ Bridge camera, of which both had more White Balance accuracy. And what in the world is White Balance, Dan? Simple, it's how the camera perceives the colour white, in different light conditions. In other words, it about how the camera understands if it's looking at a Sunny day, or cloud day, or indoor of a house. Now, canon digital slrs, especially my late eos 40D, didn't even know if I was shooting on a cloudy day or if i was shooting a sunset. Let's just say that during sun rise or sunset, the picture was BLUEISSHHHHH. Yes yes yes, having an SLR means u have control over the WB settings, hence we must use the correct one according to the real scene. BUT, i'm shooting weddings and that's a crappy excuse if I'd missed a good moment. Sorry Steve, the pic of you kissing your wife had to be processed so it looks like the original lighting and moment, so I'll need forever to do that since I took 20 shots in a row. Cheap cheap excuse. Nikons, especially the D200 and the D300 that I now own, never had that issue. You see, it was so good, I barely pressed the WB(white Balance) settings button. I'm not over-stating this, it's just a fact.
Light metering? It's how your camera measures light, according to the sensor pattern, regardless if it's matrix, collective, spot or center weighted. In other words, how your camera understands what the correct exposure is. The Canon 40d is fine, but not good enough. If there was a slight hint of highlight, say lamp post or a bright window, the camera UNDEREXPOSES the photo mercilessly, without considering the entire scene. I'd have to measure the light on the subject, focus then recompose and then shoot. And normally you'll fail the first try. Nikons work based on a database of scenes, so I guess that's why it works so much better. I point to a subject, there's a bright window at the extreme corner and camera would normally decides that, hey, I know that dude is sitting there, let me balance out the brightness between them. Tadddaa, correct exposure at the first try. Oh, did I mentioned that I just keep shooting and not miss another moment? Thanks.
The Canon 40D supposedly came with all 9 Cross-type sensors. Wow, absolutely useless. Even when using one center focusing point, 40% (a rough estimate) the focusing was not tack sharp and with SEVERAL focusing and refocusing tries. The rather grainy viewfinder didn't help too and the camera's beeping Auto Focus confirmation sound keep lying to me. The 3inch LCD screen has inaccurate colours and not sufficiently sharp enough.
So, is this a bad camera, NO. It just makes it harder for me to do what I intended to do, possibly causing me to miss important moments. Suffice to say, if you shoot events and weddings alike, this is unacceptable LAH. Despite what I said, the camera had excellent detail and colour rendition among all the other manufacturers. But then again, Nikon progressed so much that I dare to say that Canon's aren't the top anymore in that measure.
Hey, so what happened was, I sold my lenses, flash, camera, battery packs all in 3 days and bought a Nikon d300. It came with a price, but at least I know that the depreciation rate is MUCH slower that of canons. HAHAHA. Buy a Canon now, and check out the price just after 5 months, in a split second, you'll notice yourself banging ur head on the wall. If you really need to buy a canon camera in the future, wait for a few months after lauching. It's not wrong to buy it early, but the way canon priced it so much lower just a few months after that is so so saddening la. In less than 6 months, the cash price to by a 40D was a good 600 ringgit cheaper. Go figure. You wanna sell it as a second hand? Think Proton cars. HAHAHAHA
Do have a look at my Fadalini.multiply.com account for my favorite shots with the canon 40D. Good riddens. I'm back on the dark side.
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