Canon EOS-30D in-depth review

Overall, the photo quality on the EOS-30D is excellent, especially if you put some decent lenses on it. Color and exposure were consistently good, noise levels were nice and low (even at higher ISOs), and purple fringing was rarely a problem. The two issues I'd like to mention both related to softness. For one, in general the 30D (along with Canon's other D-SLRs) tends to be soft right out of the camera. Some folks like this, others (like me) do not. The easy answer is to just crank up the in-camera sharpening a bit in the Picture Styles menu. Secondly, image sharpness also depends a lot on your choice of lens. I must say I'm having some buyers remorse over my purchase of the 17-85 EF-S lens, as it's quite soft, especially in the corners (just look at the sample photos taken with it to see what I mean). With my 70-200 F4L and 50 F1.4 lenses, I got much sharper photos, without having to touch the Picture Styles menu.

Via DC Resource

Posted by Staff on 26 March 2006

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