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Offline RichardM

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Canon EOS 50D
« on: August 26, 2008, 11:10:03 AM »
Anyone looking for a new toy?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0808/08082605canoneos50d.asp

The preview:
http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canoneos50d/

Quote from: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/canon-makes-eos.html
Those leaked EOS D50 specs on Canon's Chinese site? Real. The official announcement came today and everything tallies with what we saw on Friday. 15.1 megapixel CMOS sensor (with 1.6x crop factor), a big 3" LCD screen, Live View (for previewing images on the screen), ISO running up to 12800 (in a special, try-not-to-use-it hidden mode) and, possibly the most interesting, Canon's new image processing chip, the DIGIC 4.

In digicams, the two things which impact the picture quality (after the light has made it in through the lens) are the sensor and the image processor. The 50D is the first Canon camera to use the new DIGIC 4 chip, and it appears to be an incremental upgrade. If you have a fast enough memory card (Compact Flash) then you'll get a whopping 90 jpeg images in a single burst, at up to 6.3 fps. RAW shooters see a smaller improvement: you get 16 shots before the camera pauses for breath. The new DIGIC also includes face detection (up to 35 faces!) and in-camera vignetting controls with supported EF lenses. This last gets the rather fancy title of "Peripheral Illumination Correction".

There is also built-in sensor cleaning along with dust removal software which, in a fit of alliteration, Canon has named "Dust Delete Data Detection". Other goodies include HDMI out and nine-point autofocus.

The price for all these whizz-bang features? $1400
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Offline Roy

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Re: Canon EOS 50D
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2008, 11:36:49 AM »
There's going to be a lot of rumors and "leaked" info for the next month. Photokina (see link) is the world's largerst photo/imaging convention, and manufacturers announce their new products around this time. Might want to hold off buying anything for now; once the new stuff is announced, there should be some price drops on the existing models.

http://www.photographybay.com/2008/04/15/photokina-2008/

Lots of links on this page, but remember most of this is just educated guesswork;  most of the official anouncements with specs, etc.,  won't come 'til next month.
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Re: Canon EOS 50D
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2008, 12:56:45 PM »
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Re: Canon EOS 50D
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2008, 01:02:55 PM »
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...in order to be successful, as a {Tank} crew, the bottom line is, if you can't hit the target, you're not a tank; you're a 60 ton noise maker- Eric Daniel

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Re: Canon EOS 50D
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2008, 03:15:25 PM »
And it looks like Nikon's going to roll out their D90 , too.  Competition is heating up, now if they'd just drop their prices.
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