20D availability in the UK

My 20D, BG-E2 and extra BP511A arrived today, as promised by Park.

I haven't had time to really play with the new camera yet, but I did try one thing; shooting burst mode (Large Fine JPEG) with a Sandisk Ultra 1GB CF card, the camera shot 31 photos at full speed! I guess that shows how fast it is writing to the memory card!

The maximum number of shots possible in each burst depends (obviously) on the size of the written files. To prove this, I shot a full burst on manual focus with the lens cap on. The practically pure black images compress to very small files. It took an astounding ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE photos! at 5 fps! Although useless, it shows that the background writing really works!

RAW seems limited to 6 shots at full speed, whatever the shooting setup.

Here's a link to a full sized (3504 by 2336, 3804KB) large, fine JPEG right out of my 20D. It's a photo of one of my lightsabers.

It was shot at f/3.5 through a 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 at 28mm. Oh, and at ISO 3200.

http://www.planet-zhadum.com …emp/20D_ISO3200​_Saber.JPG

For ISO 3200, I don't think that the noise is too bad!