Yesterday I strolled through the city together with a friend who bougth an EOS 350D recently. Overall we both are pleased with our cameras. This time we just exchanged the cameras for a short time. The 350D is quite a bit smaller than the 20D but good to work with. The 200 g lower weight is nice, but I got used to the heavier body of the 20D now. There are at least three reasons I'm glad I chose the 20D:
- The indication of the active AF point(s); the indication on the 350D is much darker and much smaller so that I don't see this very clear. I can't imagine how bad this will get in sunshine and this is an very important information for me.
- The thumb dial, this is such an easy and fast way to change settings.
- The better positioning of the buttons for ISO, Drive, Exposure mode and the small LCD on top; the settings LCD on the back of the 350D is not bad either, but I don't like the use of the main monitor to change ISO and so on
The quality is pretty similar. We plan to test this further some day (doing a series of tests with all our lenses on both bodies using a tripod and so on).
I'm just preparing some Cyanotypes, but they still have to dry. Here are three other nice shots (maybe I'll make Cyanotypes out of these too):
