-=Still love your 20D/30D? Congregate!

Yep, I Still like my old friend

Convinced my buddy to get a 20D a few months ago, he paid $200 for it and it was garaged and had taken no more than 2000 shots. I've had mine since 2005 when I got it and still use it to this day, just started doing digital primarily after doing 35mm pretty much exclusively until June of last year!
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Definitely love my 20d.

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Shot this at f/2.8 1/40sec ISO 3200. When I loaded the raw picture onto the computer, I was honestly surprised at how nice the image came out at ISO 3200 from my 30D. This was my first time shooting at 3200 because I figured pictures at this range were unusable. Very minor noise reduction was done in LR3. I guess I underestimated my equipment.

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Arteel wrote in post #11806942
Very minor noise reduction was done in LR3. I guess I underestimated my equipment.

the 20 and 30 will surprise you when shooting 3200

Dang, 2 days since the last post.. love must be fading for these older classics (30D was still the latest greatest just 4 years ago.)

Well anyway I purchased one again after all these years and since owning a 1D MK III I do find one weakness is low light focus performance. Now I am talking very low light now, where you really need the focus assist beam to be able to focus at all. Only problem is Canon decided that little feature wasnt necessary on its own and put it in the onboard flash and that little bugger strobes like an electrical storm. I can imagine if you arent allowed to have a flash in some areas this would be also included. But you might get by with the low light levels of a focus beam on an external flash or P&S camera. Or you might just want to use such a beam at home because that flashing strobe is just plain annoying.

I would then recommend that you purchase an ST-E2 and set your custom functions to allow focus assist and set for flash not to fire and shoot in manual mode. This allows full use of the focus beam without metering issues in the shot. I dont have such a device however and a couple years ago I built my own focus assist lamp from a bad 420EX flash I had purchased off the forum. When I recieved it the head was broke off from the body and screws missing from the prior owner trying to fix it himself... and well since we dont have a negative feedback forum and I purchased it cheaply I just decided to save it for a parts flash.

Then I purchased a 5D which is pretty wimpy in low light focusing. I then took the parts and built this focus assist for it. When I got this 30D yesterday and tried focus in very low light even with a 1.4 aperture it just hunted its little head off. I popped up the onboard flash and it was like favoom! Lightning! LOL So I grabbed my little 270EX and opps, no good, no focus assist lamp built in. Then I rememberd my little creation and popped it on and that bad boy focuses in the darkest environment and without blinding mankind.

So I thought I would share a couple pics of it in case someone with a broken flash head on a flash you would have probably thrown out or never used again would like to see that it can be salvaged for something. It can also save the expense of an ST-E2 if you have no intentions of having an array of flashes that need it, and/or you are on a tight budget.

I simply removed the head and internal wiring to the flash head and capped off the top. 4 batteries in this thing will last years! Though heavier and bulkier than ST-E2 it is much smaller and lighter than a full sized flash, especially 580EXII. Anyway this is a little contribution to this thread that was going to sleep...

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mastertech01 wrote in post #11827287
Anyway this is a little contribution to this thread that was going to sleep...

Well sha-zam .. I guess they don't call you mastertech fer nuthin ..
Damn good job MT ..

I think the 20D's need some more lovin'! I'll definitely will be using mine proud and I just made the jump from point and shoots to DSLRs! Just give me some time before I actually post some pictures.

This 30D is slowly becoming a backup for my G12..... (Did I just say that?)
Well just ordered a pair of IS kit lenses to overcome some handicaps... meanwhile a couple small contributions with a 50mm 1.4. She has been my backup for 37 years..

Tomi Hawk wrote in post #11830301
Well sha-zam .. I guess they don't call you mastertech fer nuthin ..
Damn good job MT ..

Thanks Tomi Hawk, I hope others can use that gadget idea.

One from this weekend:

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