PhotoJourno wrote in post #6798567
I know!.. It was also completely serendipitous as well. So when I got to the photo store, I kept dreading that something in fact would be wrong with it. As soon as they lent me a batt for it, I did the clean sensor function, and looked inside. It was spotless. Not a speck of dust, nothing (my biggest fear was that maybe someone had tried cleaning the sensor with some steel wool or such). So when they slapped the 50mm on it, and it clicked, I was beaming. The flash is not the greatest tool ever, extremely simple to use, but it does its job and moves around just like it should. The quick burst -not as I had once on a 1Dmk3- was pleasant enough, and then as I saw the on screen review, I thought maybe that banding was the reason why such a camera may have ended up in a thrift/junk store (well, for a thrift store, this one was pretty junky). Now I can't wait to get some sort of power for it and any glass, to see how it performs with natural light.
Less than a year ago, I had 4 L lenses, dual 1D cameras with a 30D just in case, and life took it all away. I thought I would never recover.
Moral of the story is, keep your head high, there's someone always watching over you.
I know!.. It was also completely serendipitous as well. So when I got to the photo store, I kept dreading that something in fact would be wrong with it. As soon as they lent me a batt for it, I did the clean sensor function, and looked inside. It was spotless. Not a speck of dust, nothing (my biggest fear was that maybe someone had tried cleaning the sensor with some steel wool or such). So when they slapped the 50mm on it, and it clicked, I was beaming. The flash is not the greatest tool ever, extremely simple to use, but it does its job and moves around just like it should. The quick burst -not as I had once on a 1Dmk3- was pleasant enough, and then as I saw the on screen review, I thought maybe that banding was the reason why such a camera may have ended up in a thrift/junk store (well, for a thrift store, this one was pretty junky). Now I can't wait to get some sort of power for it and any glass, to see how it performs with natural light.
Less than a year ago, I had 4 L lenses, dual 1D cameras with a 30D just in case, and life took it all away. I thought I would never recover.
Moral of the story is, keep your head high, there's someone always watching over you.
Wow well I do hope better luck for you from here on and good on you for keeping your head high. The 10D in my eyes still gave me the best color from all the bodies I have used. It has a slow start up but I just adjusted the standby mode to a longer period which sorted that problem. Good luck.
