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25 Mar, 2020
clean book
good quality used book. no complaints!
07 Dec, 2019
a fine watch, clear display and perfect feature set.
3 of 3 found this helpful I don't hand out five star reviews too often but there's no way this Casio deserves any less. It's been totally reliable through the several years I've had it - which included one period when I mislaid it for seven months - on finding it, it'd gone to sleep but woke up and wasn't out of charge. I do usually put it in the window to keep its charge reasonably well up. It's the lowest maintenance watch with completely reliable timekeeping due to it being updated nightly at around 02.02am.
This is the watch I use as a standard of timekeeping for the watches I'm keeping an eye on at any one time and it never deviates from the latest Cesium-sourced time reference in any recordable way.
So overall this one represents the best G-Shock I've ever had, including a solar Mudman that lacks the waveceptor feature - and needs correction weekly.
Unless you have radar dishes for ears, no Casio alarm will get your attention so in practical terms the alarm function is essentially useless. Even so it's an easy five stars from me.
07 Apr, 2010
Canon 40D
2 of 2 found this helpful Mine was bought slightly used via Ebay in truly excellent unmarked condition. Its performance is more than I'm presently able to exploit. It's a very nice unit indeed, but I do have to agree with another reviewer who complained about the on/off switch; which is one of the very worst pieces of ergonomic design I have ever seen. It is ridiculously badly placed and very awkward to use. My old 350D has its switch at the base of the mode dial and is very easily used. Black mark for this, Canon.
But that apart, I'm rather in awe of this fine camera. The kit lens seems to get lots of negative comments, but the images I'm getting with it are more than acceptably sharp. I wonder if relatively uninformed new users expect to get away with outrageously slow shutter speeds handheld then pan the lens because they've surpassed the IS's capacity? The IS feature is a definite plus. I also have the older non-IS version and it needs more care when shooting at modest shutter speeds. Optically I don't have an issue with either of these lenses, especially if they're used at sensible mid-range F-stops rather than gagged wide open.
A former reviewer gave a well detailed account of his use of the three customisable user modes - this was a very useful lesson for me! - I'll be making sure I can follow his example, which till now I'd been overlooking. (Very helpful review, that one.)
In the user's hands the 40D feels very solid (heavy!) indeed compared to the XXXd range. (also have a 350d) No doubt the pro level models are even better - but - just how much "better" do you need? This camera's by now relatively modest 10MgP count doesn't sound like it'll set the world on fire, but I've found that by using RAW files and with careful post processing I get image quality that's easily the equal of cameras that on paper read like they'd be way out in front of mine.
There is also an sRAW format, giving smaller files - but with significant loss of resolution. I tried it once and won't again. The RAW files it generates are 10+Mb each so you need a decent size of Compactflash card. I splashed on an 8Gb one, keeping a couple of small ones in reserve. I also got a second non-oem battery for he 40D which seems to work exactly the same as the original Canon one.
Unless you're printing A3 or larger pictures, you will never notice the difference between this camera and ones with higher pixel count - the quality of the in-camera image generation chips is so excellent. For fans of HDR software, you can specify wide bracketing in consecutive shots.
This is my first camera with a self cleaning routine built in. Checks have revealed no observable spots when shooting a plain white screen as per recommended practice so I guess it seems to be working? Mind you I keep my kit clean any way so it's possible there's no dirt inside the camera body? (no I don't really believe that either - but my shots are perfectly clean regardless)
Live View gets a fair bit of attention from some reviews - for me it's not something to clinch the deal but it's occasionally useful. Auto focus is available when using LV but it doesn't do so when shooting - you've to press a button to set it before shooting. It works okay but it's a rather clumsy procedure.
Given what I paid for my 40D and what is paid for the newer model, I'd go for it all over again, no question. But I'm sure that when I eventually replace it I'll still be feeling the same about that afterthought positioning of that on/off switch!!