Eye Control, what's that?
Written: Apr 11 '02
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Pros: Features, features, features; Oh, and Canon quality of course
Cons: flash has limited usability
The Bottom Line: Spending this much money should and does get you an advanced near-pro quality camera. Perhaps the best value out there.
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| dalesky's Full Review: Canon EOS-30 35mm Film Camera |
This camera is Canon's latest generation auto focus, advanced amateur offering. It has been available since late 2000. It sells for around $550, body only, or as a kit with the 28-90mm USM lens, for about $630. I bought mine at a local shop, one that I have dealt with for over 20 years. It is available from many companies through the Internet also.
I bought it as a kit, with the lens noted above. USM stands for UltraSonic Motor. Many of Canon's lenses have this feature.
What it means is fast silent accurate auto-focusing.
The camera has many features not offered on most others, and the exclusive eye control function. It also comes without eye focus control, sold as the Elan 7. The 30/30E refers to the European models. Same camera in either the U.S. or Europe.
I am an experienced amateur, having used SLRs for most of my adult life.
I chose this camera over others because of the creative choices it allows me to make. It has full auto control, or many, many custom settings, including full manual control of everything.
As an automatic camera you can use settings for closeups, landscape, night shooting, action and more. As a manual camera you can control aperture, shutter speed or both.
It also functions as a fully automatic 'point and shoot'.
It offers nearly silent film advance, as well as silent or high speed rewind.
It's drive is fastest in class at 4 frames per second. You can choose to have the film rewind into the canister or with a leader sticking out. You can change film in mid- roll.
Flash photography is done either with the on camera unit, or a hot shoe mounted external flash. The flash unit covers 28mm to 90mm, and has red eye reduction. It pops up when needed, or can be manually controlled. It will pre-flash under certain conditions to establish very accurate flash exposures.
Eye control, or the 'E" in Elan 7E means that the camera will track your eye movement as you look through the view finder. It tracks your eye movement and constantly focuses the lens as your eye moves. You can easily choose which part of your picture to focus on, and even average the setting between near and far objects. You can choose to turn this feature off also. The camera may be calibrated for more than one person to use the eye focus capability.
You can add an inexpensive ($80) battery pack,(BP300) and use two additional batteries of the type already in the camera, or use AA batteries. The BP300 also adds another shutter button, and good horizontal gripping.
I won't list many more features, since there are so many. Check it out at
www.precision-camera.com
or see what others have to say at http://www.photo.net/ learn/reviews-35mm or at
http://www.photozone.de/
I highly recommend considering this camera at this price range. I found it to be the best value for my money, and have always been satisfied with Canon quality.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 600
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