[Steve]

Originally Posted by CT

I don't find the workflow a problem Steve, because I fairly mercilessly discard my rubbish shots which doesn' t leave me many to play with usually.

I shoot in Raw and jpeg. At moment I'm using Canons own Raw conversion software and then saving either as a Tiff or jpeg. I use PSP for the bulk of my retouching work so it's the package I'm most familiar with, and the retouching tools, (one in particular anyway) are superb. I don't have the Raw plug-in for PSP at the moment. I also have Photoshop and various other packages including Corel, but again I'm in need of Raw plug-ins for those.

I am lucky enough to own a Photoshop CS and have upgraded to include the RAW file handler for the Canon 20D files. This is my tool of preference but I have also recently been playing around with a few other packages to get a feel of what else is available. From the ones that I have tried I have found a free package called Raw Shooter Essentials 2005 to be excellent. Its available from HERE if you are interested. As it is free it probably worth a few hours to have a play.

Originally Posted by CT

White balance has never been particulary impressive with digital cameras I've used, particularly under tungsten light. Whilst the 20D is definitely better in that respect, there are huge advantages in using Raw to control WB. The images from the 20D tend to be a little soft for my tastes, so it's nice to be able deal with the sharpening too.

I have recently also swapped over the 20D but unlike you I only upgraded from the 10D but did also notice that the images are substantially softer. The beauty is that images from the 20D do react very favourably to sharpening, giving much better results than the 10D ever did. This is not to say that the 10D was lacking but just that Canon have again moved the goal posts and set new standards.

Originally Posted by CT

I'm still getting used to the 20D and it was a big decision to change over from Nikon, but one of the most impressive things about the 20D is the simplicity of the menus compared to Nikon - I find the menus very intuitive and user friendly.

Here again I have to agree with you but find the small changes between the handling on the 10D to the 20D more awkward than I probably would have if I had changed from a completely different manufacturer. The 2 cameras look almost the same but reach quite differently, this has slowed my photography down somewhat causing me to think where I would normally select menus and functions intuitively.