My first digital SLR Camera: Canon EOS 10D

In 2003, I wanted to go digital, to save on the cost for the prints, and since I am putting my pictures online anyway. I started looking for an affordable camera with still a good quality. I knew I had to settle for one with a smaller CMOS chip, resulting in 1.6x extension, but the ones with a full sized chip were way too expensive.
The camera I settled down with was the EOS 10D (€ 1500), which came out in 2003. Metal body, good reviews on Internet and in photographers mailing lists, good resolution (6 Megapixels). It had that despised 1.6x focus extension, but I thought "hey, unless I win in Lotto, it's either that or nothing"!

After using the 10D for some months, I knew that I am not really happy with it. After five years it was finally time to move on.
Things I didn't like about it: The built-in flash is popping up not high enough, so that with any good lens (which has a large filter diameter) will throw a huge shadow in the picture. The 1.6x factor is a larger nuisance to me than I expected (together with full-format-lenses - I have now that 15-30 lens that I use very often, and I can't even put a filter on it, if I would use what I actually want, the 24-70 everything would be fine). But the worst is the autofocus. The EOS 3 has a superb autofocus, I never had any problem with it, but the 10D autofocus is really very crude.

I sold this camera (and all the Sigma lenses which I had) early 2008.