Canon 20D Review

Posted on April 14th, 2006

I got a chance to try out the Canon EOS 20D recently. While great overall, I had a serious issue with OS X support. This was my first time messing around with a high-end digital camera, but my familiarity with the 35mm Canons made it pretty easy to play around with. I was quite impressed by the simple menu system and the simplicity of operation compared to many snapshot digital cameras. The camera was able to take very rapid successive shots which was excellent for bracketing - I had a high-speed write CF card which may have helped a bit. The camera has very little noise, even at 1600 ISO. The only feature I missed vs. 35mm was the ability to do multiple exposures. Though admittedly I don't use that much. So - to the irritating part. Canon's support for OS X really sucks. I keep my computer updated with the latest OS version, and apparently that seems to break Canon's software. This is near unforgivable given that there are so many Apple users these days. I ended up having to pull the CF card and using a card reader. Canon really should get some proper OS X coders working for them - you can tell from their program installers that they are really stuck in Windoze mode. Other than the software issue, great camera.

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