Amateur Photographer Magazine

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....but that's not the whole story is it?, not for a lot of pro's anyway.

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And as this is the *Amateur* Photography mag/forum why would these things be taken into consideration?

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Well, I'd say as many amateurs shoot action and motorsport as specialise in landscapes or studio work, I actually don't think the D300 and 5D belong in the same review together, I can't imagine them appealing to the same buyer, their relative strengths are in such different areas.

And that's before we get to price (ignoring the differently endowed £1200 5D) the real casualty of the review is the 40D, why mark down a £600.00 camera because it's not as strongly built or fully featured as a the £960.00 D300, you pay £360.00 for that fancy screen and all the AF points. The 40D will give you 90% of the functionality of a D300 at 65% of the cost.

So the real winner, when all is said and done, should be the 40D for having (for the amateur) the best balance of features and image quality for the price by a long old way.

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