1D - Am I wrong to be disappointed?

[Dan_Creighton]

Reading the specifications sheet it says that TTL is used for metering. And E-TTL flash system is used with compatible flashes. Further it can be used with ETTL remore capability.

Where did you read it abandoned TTL for the flash system?

Canon split the gap between Nikon's D1h/D1x and everyone is complaining? I personally think it is premature to do so and also ironic that everyone is already talking about the "next" camera. No camera is perfect, not even the Nikon's which this camera is being compared to. I'll take any short comings of this camera to have the ease of controls and ergonomics of use compared to the Nikon D1 series.

I guess your right, I assumed many people would want to plug into a computer for workflow which may be a wrong assumtion. If you popped the card into a reader my assumption is that the card reader is usb. Again, it would be only 12mbit which is max 1.5 meg per sec and you have a half a gig of files may take sometime.

I assume you need some type of adaptor for pcmcia to accept a microdrive, whether it does or not it is a great idea for a laptop and would lessen the concern about the connection type. But again this was a minor gripe but I still would have prefered usb(2) for a standard computer

This is posted on the Canon site under the FAQ heading Flash Exposure control.

Q: Does the EOS-1D support the same flash units as the EOS-1v?
A: The EOS-1D is compatible with the same E-TTL flash units as the EOS-1v, but does not support A-TTL and TTL autoflash units. EZ-series Speedlites like the 540EZ and 430EZ must be set to a manual flash setting since the EOS-1D will not fire them when they are set for A-TTL or TTL.

Maybe I am not understanding Canons use of ttl.

[graham]

The micro drives I have come with a PCMCIA adapter and a PCMCIA adapter for a CF card is in the region of £15. As a sport shooter I would not use a cable link to the laptop at all unless I could have one 1/2 a mile long at least [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Paul_Kierstead]

On E-TTL: Film SLRs do TTL by taking a meter reading of light reflected off the film. Not surprisingly, this is very difficult to do off of CMOS/CCD, so E-TTL instead does two flashes (extremely quickly; you certainly can't tell there are two): One very short (low power) flash to determine exposure before actual exposure and then the normal one during exposure. You can initiate the first on yourself on a D30 using the '*' button. This works well except for the D30's rather pathetic way of metering flash (on the active AF point in AF mode, center weighted in MF mode) and is equivilant to TTL.

On USB readers: I obtained a firewire CF reader for my PC (works in Linux and Win) quite economically. A firewire card is pretty cheap too if you don't have a firewire port. I have also used a PCMCIA reader on my laptop. Both are extrodinarly fast compared to USB; firwire feels pretty close to a local HD.

Paul Kierstead

[NickWilcoxBrown]

Thanks for the response to my post - I am still chewing this over, but the vibes are not possitive...

Have been talking to Canon UK this morning and no vibes at all ref a 6M camera - the trouble is I don't know how much longer I can tolerate the D30 - have been shooting film recently on the 1v and it makes one realize how bad the D30 is to use (except on image quality which always has been superlative)