“Canon’s EOS 30D is numbered as if it were a major upgrade to the popular and excellent EOS 20D, and Canon marketing plumps it up even higher than that – the line is that it really has more in common with the 5D than the 20D. Really? With the same 8.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, the same DIGIC II image processor, the same 9-point autofocus system and the same 5 fps burst rate as the 20D, the 30D seems more like a respectable update of the 20D than anything else. When Canon put a bigger LCD and picture styles on the 1D Mark II, they changed the name to the 1D Mark II n. This new camera shows comparable improvements. We’d call it the “20D n,” if it were up to us.”

So says Patrick Singleton who has already had a chance to preview the Canon EOS 30D DSLR in his Canon EOS 30D First Impressions Review and I totally agree with Patrick. Canon seems to not care too much about product naming. Oh well, that’s their choice. I just wish they were a bit more consistent.

Update

Digital Camera Resource Page just put up a set of sample photos from the 30D here. The photographs below were taken at default settings, with the ISO fixed at 100. The image quality and resolution were at their highest levels.

Our friend and DIWA member Kai Thon from the Norwegian website DigIT.no has published an extensive preview of the new Canon EOS 30 DSLR camera.