35mm equivalent of EOS 20D?

Enygma

Hi,

I'm going to be doing a 35mm photography course in October and was just wondering what camera bodies you guys would recommend? At the moment I'm using the EOS 20D so I'd like to get something along those lines.

Now, I don't know too much about EOS 35mm bodies but a quick look on ebay shows up a few like EOS 33, 3, 5 which are all fairly reasonably priced by the looks of things.

So which body would you guys recommend?

heffsarmy

I used to have a canon EOS 3 camera it was excellent, if you can get on cheap buy it, these cameras are more in line with the digital canon 1d series.

ladgie353

The 20d would be the equivalent of an EOS 30/33 film body.
The 30 having the added bonus of 7-points eye-controlled autofocus. (sounds like a gimmick but works very well).

The EOS 3 is a semi-pro model, better built, faster winder and 45-points eye controlled autofocus.

The EOS 5 is the 3's predecessor, at this stage, the price difference with the 30 or 3 doesn't make it appealing, imho.

hope that helps.

davmigil

Funny, looking at similar recently and book marked this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS has chronological list of models

masteroftherealm

EOS 3 is a lovely camera.
EOS 30 has the eye controlled autofoccus too.

Either would make a lovely addition.

peter1892

Another good site for comparing the various EOS models:

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/

davmigil

peter1892 wrote:

Another good site for comparing the various EOS models:

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/

Excellent link

Redundo

I've never used the eye autofocus thing on the Canon cameras, but a friend of mine has the camera and hates it. He keeps it permanently turned off because as he was checking composition and framing the focus was constantly shifting and annoying him.

This doesn't mean it's a bad camera by any means, it's just worth bearing in mind that some gimmicks might not be worth basing your decision on.

davmigil

Excuse me Enygma for hopping on your thread. I was looking at second hand EOS on ebay and spotted the following cameras:

EOS 300V - cheap price
EOS 50 - mid prices
EOS 30 - a bit dearer

300V a bit basic? Worth paying the extra for the 30?

Opinions?

masteroftherealm

Depending on your budget the EOS 3 is a fantastic camera.
Otherwise my personal choice would be the 30 then the 50.

punchdrunk

a little bird tells me there sellin the elan 7e (yank name for EOS 30) for €300 with a 28-90 usm in pixels,

davmigil

Has anybody bought a second-hand camera from the USA via ebay? What's the deal with customs/vat?