{"id":195,"date":"2008-06-16T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.technicalley.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-06-16T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:05:06","slug":"review-canon-eos-40d-dslr-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/review-canon-eos-40d-dslr-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Canon EOS 40D DSLR Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 20px;border: 0pt none initial\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.technicalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/canon-eos-40d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>This was my father&#8217;s day gift this year from my wife and kids. I have been using it for only the last day or so, and here are some quick impressions.<\/p>\n<p>The kit is EF 28-135 IS USM, and contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The EOS 40D body, with eyecup, body cup and installed battery for the data\/time clock.<\/li>\n<li>Lens: EF 28-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS<\/li>\n<li>Battery pack: BP-511A and charger<\/li>\n<li>Interface and Video cables, and strap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The kit does not come with a  CompactFlash Card, and so I got the SanDisk Extreme-III 4GB card from BestBuy for about $52 (sale price).<\/p>\n<p>This is my first DSLR, and so it will be a while before I discover and try all the features (which I will be writing about). I have been using the EOS Rebel K2 Film SLR for a couple of years and have been quite happy with it. So, it did not take me very long to start taking pictures with the 40D using the basic modes. I have so far tried a few indoor and outdoor shoots, with and without flash and the results have been amazing. I wasn&#8217;t quite sure if my Sigma Quantaray 70-300mm telephoto lens that I was using with the Rebel K2 would work with the 40D, and to my delight it works perfectly. Today was a bright and sunny day, and I went to the Shoreline park and took some pictures with the Sigma telephoto lens on the 40D, and the results are as good as I got with the Rebel K2. The sports mode in 40D also works quite impressively. I tested it while taking pictures of kids playing &#8220;catch&#8221; with a tennis ball.<\/p>\n<p>The preview mode is a new feature introduced by Canon last year and it works nicely on the 40D, although I prefer to use the viewfinder when I take pictures with an SLR.<\/p>\n<p>(to be continued)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my father&#8217;s day gift this year from my wife and kids. I have been using it for only the last day or so,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,34,37],"tags":[113,114,126,147,303,307],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-photography","category-reviews","tag-camera","tag-canon-eos-40d","tag-compact-flash","tag-dslr","tag-sigma-lens","tag-slr","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-37-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}