Canon EOS 30D

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Mike Stensvold

Published July 1, 2006

I was rather late in going digital, as it wasn’t until 2003 that I found a D-SLR that met both my photo needs and my budget. That camera—a Canon EOS 10D—still serves me well as a hiking companion, or anytime I don’t want to risk my "good" camera, an EOS 20D. The 20D represented a quantum leap in performance and image quality over the 10D, so it was with great eagerness that I awaited arrival of the 20D’s successor, the EOS 30D.

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