Author Topic: Canon D30 (Read 1997 times)

voyager · « **on:** April 11, 2011, 12:27:52 PM »

Hard to imagine this thing was $3,500 when it was announced over 10 years ago.

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2011, 12:42:15 PM »

I Had One !!!!!!!
than I bought a Xti for an update after it had been out for a year. I paid $300 for it,

Oh wait, I had the D60 (6mp)... the D30 was 3mp... I bet the noise at ISO 200 was "NONE" 3mp on a APS_C sensor.....I know the NR tech was very young, but still...

The Contax D was also around this price... but it suffered from a lack of sales.

adash · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2011, 01:07:23 PM »

Quote from: M5-User on April 11, 2011, 12:42:15 PM

Oh wait, I had the D60 (6mp)... the D30 was 3mp... I bet the noise at ISO 200 was "NONE" 3mp on a APS_C sensor.....I know the NR tech was very young, but still...

Not too clean:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canond30/page17.asp

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2011, 01:20:55 PM »

Quote from: adash on April 11, 2011, 01:07:23 PM

Quote from: M5-User on April 11, 2011, 12:42:15 PM
Oh wait, I had the D60 (6mp)... the D30 was 3mp... I bet the noise at ISO 200 was "NONE" 3mp on a APS_C sensor.....I know the NR tech was very young, but still...

Not too clean:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canond30/page17.asp

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Horrible. The D60 was not much better, but who knew back then?

voyager · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2011, 03:35:45 PM »

Ah yes, the famed Contax N Digital, the very first Full Frame DSLR camera.

adash · « **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2011, 11:02:01 PM »

It was also the first FF DSLR to be withdrawn from market. It is also believed that because of that model's marketing failure, Kyocera withdrew from the digital camera market a couple of years later.

peterb666 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2011, 03:05:45 AM »

Quote from: voyager on April 11, 2011, 03:35:45 PM

Ah yes, the famed Contax N Digital, the very first Full Frame DSLR camera.

The only problem was no one bought it.

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2011, 05:00:03 AM »

Quote from: peterb666 on April 12, 2011, 03:05:45 AM

Quote from: voyager on April 11, 2011, 03:35:45 PM
Ah yes, the famed Contax N Digital, the very first Full Frame DSLR camera.

The only problem was no one bought it.

Probably due to the fact that most shooters were canon or nikon as a profession. Since it was so much money. And there was a lot of investments already in nikon glass or cannon glass.

barondla · « **Reply #8 on:** April 20, 2011, 05:22:50 PM »

I still have a Canon D60 around here somewhere. You sure can't judge the quality of an image with that lcd. Still shoot it once in a while. Love my Olmpus E1 much more (though the screen is also terrible).
thanks
barondla

voyager · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2011, 11:17:27 PM »

The D60 used a CCD sensor, right? I think the Rebel had the first CMOS.

panzerfaustnl · « **Reply #10 on:** October 13, 2011, 09:06:16 AM »

The D60 has a cmos sensor

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneosd60/page2.asp

Hmm if dpreview is correct, both of them have cmos sensors.
(D30)
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canond30/page2.asp

I have both of them btw.

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #11 on:** October 13, 2011, 12:12:55 PM »

The D60 has great low ISO IQ...
I think the D60 was a game changer for Canon Consumer cameras. it offered 6mp, a big jump from the 3mp D30.

The CMOS sensor was huge plus over CCD sensors. The 10D was next DSLR offered and started a new direction in the Canon line-up. Same basic body, the internals where the big change...

Kinda how the "T" series was the testing grounds for the EOS electronics. (safe the mount).
The 30/60 D solidified the DSLR refinements for the next series.. Which is now up to the 60D as far as the mid level consumer lines.

panzerfaustnl · « **Reply #12 on:** October 13, 2011, 12:20:40 PM »

The D60 feels so much faster in use than the D30. The workflow of the D60 is so much better than the D30. That doesn't mean that the D30 is a bad camera, in the contrary. I use it, just to know how far we are now.

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2011, 02:10:40 PM »

Quote from: panzerfaustnl on October 13, 2011, 12:20:40 PM

The D60 feels so much faster in use than the D30. The workflow of the D60 is so much better than the D30. That doesn't mean that the D30 is a bad camera, in the contrary. I use it, just to know how far we are now.

No intent to defame the D30, it was a decent camera for what was availible.
Just that the D60 made a huge leap in internal advances that became a spring board for latter models.

Jason C · « **Reply #14 on:** October 13, 2011, 08:21:38 PM »

You can get an EX grade D30 from KEH for $115!

I owned a Canon 10D for awhile, what an excellent performer with stunning files...especially reds.

Jason C

voyager · « **Reply #15 on:** October 13, 2011, 10:09:20 PM »

The sensor was quite nice.

Canon D30