Originally Posted by amalekite

Yeah the entire canon line has really poor contrast range. It's not you.. it's the camera. Unfortunately, you're going to have to fill the shadows in considerably to get useable natural looking detail with the 20D.

I used to own a Kodak DCS 520 back in the day (98). IT was a clunky digital camera with small file sizes, ate batteries up, was slow. But it's contrast range was beautiful. You could really notice the difference when shooting with windowlight. It killed the new canons. The D30 was a good pro-sumer level camera... but ever since the 10D was introduced canon has been nothing but a disappointment

The autofocus on the Canon digitals is poor too. The mark series is just as bad as the rebel. Consistenly backfocuses on everything. But it's close enough for most people not to notice.