Does an EOS 40D (10.1 megapixel APS-C) camera hold up today in a mirrorless world

[deebatman316]

Gear: EOS 40D, EF 50mm F/1.8 STM Tv 1/4000th, Av F/1.8, ISO 100Gear: EOS 40D, EF 50mm F/1.8 STM Tv 1/400th, Av F/1.8, ISO 100

[jrhoffman75]

If you are satisfied with the images you are creating that is all that should count. 

[deebatman316]

This camera performs well in daylight but not so much in low light with a max ISO of ISO 1000. Expanded ISO of ISO 1600/ H1 and of ISO 3200/ H2. It is now serves a backup camera to my 5D Mark IV.

[Tronhard]

I still shoot occasionally with both the EOS D30 (3.3MP, releases 2000) and the D60 (6MP release 2002).

Entry on impact of the D30 on the DSLR market

They both do a good job for publishing on the web, for example.

D30+EF 28-105@68mm, f/8, 1/25sec, ISO-200D30+28-90mm@75mm, f/5.6, 1/250sec, ISO-200D30+17-40@22mm, f/4, 1/10sec, ISO-400

This was taken with the D60

D60+EF 28-90@43mm, f/5.6, 1/320sec, ISO-200
I found the chap left by a previous owner in a weed patch, so I put him to work to do some heavy lifting! 😊

[deebatman316]

These old APS-C cameras despite there low megapixels still produce great pictures. Even though this particular camera is 16 years old now. I don't have the the original pictures on my computer anymore they've been moved to a hard drive now. So I don't have the full EXIF data for these pictures. I have copies of them only on hand. But I at least know what lenses I've used. EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM @40mm F/4EOS 40D Sigma 17-50mm F/2.8 EX DC OS HSM @ 50mm F/2.8

[normadel]

Why do you think you lose the EXIF data when you copy a file to a hard drive or anywhere else?

I move my photo files around a lot, onto and from my network file server and hard drives and have not seen any loss of data. There's no loss of data in copying/moving a digital file unless it gets corrupted somehow.

[Tronhard]

Hi Norm:
My experience is that the EXIF data is lost with some processing, especially when RAW images are saved as JPG files.

[deebatman316]

I believe the 2 pictures were originally RAW images converted to JPG. I was still in a transition period between shooting JPG and switching to RAW. At one point I was shooting JPG+ RAW for easy sharing. But the pictures above were downloaded from my phone to google drive. So I don't know if that stripped out the EXIF Data. They were shared via text on my old phone. Theses pictures were on my old computer and are on a DVD. I'm starting on the process of moving my future pictures to an SSD. Instead of using obsolete DVDs since most laptops don't have a DVD drive anymore. Then move all of those pictures on DVDs to an SSD for quick access since DVDs do fail. Mine are quite old now some are around 20+ years old now.

[deebatman316]

The pictures above DO NOT have EXIF Data attached to them. You can check if you want. I can't find the EXIF Data. I have moved the pictures to a DVD years ago. They were also sent via text to other people on my old phone. I have a new phone that I downloaded the pictures to Google Drive from. To post in the forum in a JPG format. But I'm going to use an SSD for future picture storage. Then I will move pictures from all of my old DVDs to SSDs.

[Tronhard]

Definitely a living fossil - I have DVD drives still and actually a library of about 1,000 film and TV series DVDs that I still enjoy.  I shall whittle them down over time as I downsize, I guess...