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Lense Quality Comparison tool

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published May 8, 2006

I just found what looks like a promising new tool for helping people select new lense purchase. It’s a fancy web application that allows you to compare crops taken with different lenses at selected focal lengths and apertures.

ISO 12233 Lens Test Chart 100% Crop Comparison Tool

While the choices are limited right now it does confirm what I thought about a couple of lenses I own, the 50mm 1.8 lense is damn sharp for the price!

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Canon EOS 30D Review

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published February 28, 2006

DigitalCameraInfo have reviewed the Canon EOS 30D and while they like the camera, they are not too super-impressed …

Canon’s EOS 30D is numbered as if it were a major upgrade to the popular and excellent EOS 20D, and Canon marketing plumps it up even higher than that – the line is that it really has more in common with the 5D than the 20D. Really? With the same 8.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, the same DIGIC II image processor, the same 9-point autofocus system and the same 5 fps burst rate as the 20D, the 30D seems more like a respectable update of the 20D than anything else. When Canon put a bigger LCD and picture styles on the 1D Mark II, they changed the name to the 1D Mark II n. This new camera shows comparable improvements. We’d call it the “20D n,” if it were up to us.

I haven’t touched the camera but I am disappointed with the specs, I have to agree that they ought to have called it an upgrade to the 20D rather than give it the marketing moniker of 30D. The name they have blessed it with gives expectations of a much greater improvement than the specifications can live up to.

Still it looks like it’s a great camera. Check out the full review.

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