The first really good 50D thread managed to get locked. Here are the leaked spec's. Let's discuss, but keep the discussion on photography.
1.6x crop
15.1MP --- 4752 x 3168 pixels
JPEG´s + RAW + sRAW1 + sRAW2
Dust Reduction
Digic IV
Auto Brightness Processing
95% viewfinder .97 magnification
9 point af (All Cross Type)
AF Fine Tuning [AF microadjustment]
ISO 100-3200 Expanded 6400-12800
Auto ISO 100-1600
LCD VGA type 920,000
6.3 FPS (high speed) 3fps (low speed)
Buffer: 16 RAW - 60 JPG - 10 RAW+JPG
Pop-Up flash (13/43 at ISO 100)
UDMA Support
Camera User settings C1 & C2
Shutter Actuations: 100,000
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ADDED (links to a COPY of the original Canon site info, I provided Google translation from the original Chinese):
Am I the only one that's not happy with the 15mp on the 50D?
The image quality is surely going to be great. Canon are very good at this. But is 15mp better than 12mp? And how much better is 15mp compared to 10mp?
The 50D is nothing more than a 40D with 5 extra megapixels. Is this what the future holds for the xxD line?
I was following that other thread very close. D'Oh. Anyways, other than too many MP, it sounds pretty good to me. The upgraded LCD, the higher ISO, UDMA support, oh yea.
for certain uses such as stock photography the extra 5 megapixels are very good. If the 100-3200 ISO means that the camera has gotten better noise then that is also a Very Good Thing (tm)
well, if the specs are indeed correct or similar, this sounds just like the camera i am going to upgrade to from my xti
if canon manages to produce a camera that does not suffer from af-malfunctions and such, i am pretty sure this is going to be a great product!
Did anyone get a better translation on the "In-Body IS" text ... if this can be done correctly, I would welcome this as a very usable feature with my prime lenses.
IMHO the 920.000 pixel LCD has got to be a major improvement. It cancels one of the worst features of my 40D, its weak display. Microadjustement also looks promising, as does Digic IV, which should take care of offering at least as good noise characteristics as Digic III despite the higher pixel count, which then becomes another bonus.
With 4 significant improvements, this looks like enough to warrant a new camera, and the spec sheet compares well with D300. Except, as is normal with middle-of-the-line products, the key question to decide if it is "interesting" or not is price. And there my guess is that 50D should still be cheaper than D300, which sports a more sophisticated viewfinder and AF. But at the price point where 40D was before they dropped the price, 50D should be a very good seller. Unless (or until) of course, D90...:-)
Given that this looks like a pretty good real leak it might help if the members whose sole reason for entering what they know to be a rumour threads is to be negative would just keep out of it?
I want to know what people who are disappointed expect on a prosumer camera. The 40D already has more features and such for a prosumer body than any other prosumer body Canon has ever produced. Heck, my 30D has everything that I need to make the images I like to take, so honestly, this looks very nice. If they managed a new sensor tech or a processing algorithm that can yield quality images at ISO 12800, that'd be HUGE. What exactly, do you want? And if you say 45 point AF and weather sealing, you're dreaming, as there would then be essentially no differentiation between the prosumer line and the pro line. (it's one of the reasons I think the Nikon D700 was a bad idea...there's no practically no reason to buy the D3...they must have destroyed D3 sales with that camera.)
The screen on the 40D is really bad though, at a recent wedding I had a 2nd shooter using one. He looked enviously at my 5D's and said that my screens were far better than his. I'd never seen a 40D before and looking at the size of the screen on it was in disbelief, couldn't understand how it could be worse. Then he put pics up on the screen - ouch, same pixels stretched over too much space. Kinda like using 800X600 on your 21" LCD...
I think you're wrong jman, I don't know of any pro's who were looking for pro bodies who are buying D700's over D3's. Yes the wedding market is buying them but the pro market who need a D3 type body are buying it for the extra shutter life, they shoot a lot and the built in grip which is apparently far more ergonomic. Maybe they're buying D700's as backup but if Nikon is making the money and I assume the profit margin is pretty much the same, why not, it's the same bottom line.
About ISO ... The limit is ISO 3200 native ... Expansions to 6400 & 12800 .... If you read the Geoff Costellos´s post ... these could be combined (High ISO) with the use of sRAW1 & sRAW2 to get the binning 2x1 and 4x1 and get noise reduction ... but at the cost of pixel resolution... tricky but effective. I suspect that because now appears a second sRAW format what casually corresponds with two High ISO extensions .... if you see back to the 40D for comparison,
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ADDED: Since the original links were taken down, here is some of the information from others that captured and reposted the info.