The previous links could easily have been simple put ups to amuse but these start to look a little more official and not many major companies would view changing their lens listing pages for hoots and giggles with kind regard.
Both lens are reasonable possibilities though the big time premium for IS on the 400mm better include improved optics to justify the increase. I don't suspect it really will and that the pricing is merely to make up for some of the lost big gun sales that will occur. On the other hand, the pricing of the 100-400 F4 IS will be a serious blow to Nikon ($3500 less than their 200-400 F4 VR). Pretty good strategy all in all.
I think they have largely cloned the specs of the 40D from the 30D, adding in the 400D sensor and antidust... Real specs are a little different. They know it is coming but they don't know the specs yet.. They do have a nice link though to the right page on the the Canon web site for the 40D when the real specs are released
The previous links could easily have been simple put ups to amuse but these start to look a little more official and not many major companies would view changing their lens listing pages for hoots and giggles with kind regard.
Both lens are reasonable possibilities though the big time premium for IS on the 400mm better include improved optics to justify the increase. I don't suspect it really will and that the pricing is merely to make up for some of the lost big gun sales that will occur. On the other hand, the pricing of the 100-400 F4 IS will be a serious blow to Nikon ($3500 less than their 200-400 F4 VR). Pretty good strategy all in all. ...Show more →
The 2500e price for a 100-400 f/4 IS looks impossibly low. The Nikon 200-400/4 sells for more than twice that, no?
wtlloyd wrote:
I think they are going MF this year. They won't devalue their 35mm line by just coming out with a new line of high resolution lenses and ever-more pixels jambed on a sensor.
Why not? If they could eventually get 30-40MP in a 35mm body and produce Leica quality lenses, they would put current MF out to pasture. They can do it in small steps, and in a few years 6x45 will go the way of 4x5, which went the way of 8x10 ..... etc. etc.
Nikon is pushing the low end, consumer market (just look at their ads in the magazines)
canon is pushing higher end, pro bodies and lenses - again, see their ads in magazines.
Nikon certainly has taken the lower end of the dSLR market, canon seems to have abanonded the market they created with the 300D. Perhaps they achieved their objective, found out there's little money to made at the low end of the market, and will let Nikon lose money on the D40 buyers.
If I'm right, then expect more high-end products, perhaps a re-vamped 1d line, a D200 fighter (7D - 10mp weather sealed 5fps body, probably FF, that sells for $2500)
I don't expect a 30D update, but it's possible. In the fall we'll get that.
I do expect a 5D update. it's been rebated for the better part of a year now. Why? cause it's not selling like canon wants.
I would not be surprised by a MF system. I almost expect it.
I'd like to see something to fill in the big gap between teh 30D and 5D - a D200 killer.
I'd like to see a D40 fighter too, but only if canon can make money selling it.
JohnnyGCanon wrote:
I hope the price is wrong on the 40D along with some of the specifications. Oh well, time will tell for sure!
I would guess that the specs and price are wrong for certain (if this is the real deal). I think that the 10+ mpx and self-cleaning sensor are the only specs that are right, but as someone else said, they are probably brought in from the 400D spec page. The thing reads like a 30D with a few 400D specs thrown in. I expect that it will be more significant than just a sensor change.
