After much hemming and hawing, I got a new body last week: the Canon EOS 50D. It’s quite a step up from my 10D, to say the least.
I’m hardly the guy you’d come to for a comprehensive review, so let me just hit a few of the high spots.
- It’s oh so much faster than my old camera.
- The screen on the back is amazingly huge… I could watch TV on this thing and be happy.
- USB 2.0 is wonderful… shooting tethered is no longer an exercise in patience. Fire the shutter, see the image.
- I know megapixels aren’t everything, but 6.3 was beginning to feel quaint. 15.1 is a whole lot of real estate.
- The menu is a lot cleaner and easier to navigate.
The one thing I hate: my RAW converter of choice doesn’t yet support the new RAW file version, which forces me to use Canon’s converter. The jury’s out one whether or not it will (or does) work better or worse than anything else (when everyone else gets up to speed). All I know is that I’m not used to it and processing the smoke pictures from this weekend was a chore.