Comments on: Canon D2000 / Kodak DCS520

By: Ray Postings

Ray Postings — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:02:36 +0000

I have recently acquired a DCS 520. It has no battery or PC cards. I would like to find somebody who also has a 520 who might be prepared to use their battery etc to see if the one I have works. Any takers?

By: paul o'sullivan

paul o'sullivan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:32:44 +0000

I picked up 3 DCS520′s and one DCS620. One of the 520′s was ‘broken’ for years – I had it fixed, as it had only 7k actuations. Lovely results for a 2mb sensor, but the battery life is terrible, even buying new batteries (expensive) didn’t improve much – the recharge lifetime is very short on these. In my view, the DCS 720 (Nikon) is better made than the Canon 620, but both are fine cameras – I just wish the battery life was better.

By: Ashley Pomeroy

Ashley Pomeroy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:21:49 +0000

I bought a Canon D2000 in late 2008 – it was the same camera but with Canon branding. It didn’t have the bright red KODAK logo. I was pleasantly surprised, although it had problems with sunlight, which tended to turn magenta. In fact you can see this in the sample photograph, on the top-left corner. The sensor was very sensitive to infrared, and I found that it was hard to get consistent colour reproduction. Apart from that the image quality was great up to ISO 800, beyond which the blue channel fell apart, although the results were still usable in black and white. The pictures were very sharp (no antialiasing filter) and the body felt very tough. The interface was odd but quick, and after switching it on there was no delay between photographs. I can see the DCS 560 still being useful today as a kind of “pocket 1D” for daylight conditions, although they rarely come up on eBay. I’m not sure how the flash automation works, though, I never tried that out.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:38:31 +0000

I started late in acquiring a dSLR camera ie a used DCS520 in 2005. Like it so much bought another DCS520 then a DCS560 and last year D2000. Slightly disappointed over the D2000 due to the software supported, otherwise IQ is just as the DCS520. Its 2009 and I am still happily shooting these giants that made history in their own rights, with the DCS560 hitting 180,000 actuation, I am guilty for 20k so far.

By: bruce wells

bruce wells — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:41:21 +0000

10 years on mega pixels later AND STILL using them
great workhorse 2meg pixels ? who cares !!
bruce