LCollector wrote:
the price is reasonably good compared to nikon's offerings in the same class (D300). why the ouch ?
Price increase of $100 over the 40D intro price. Many Canon 40D users are getting squeezed here ... very short product cycle (especially when you consider when RAW support finally materialized), price increase on new model and price reduction on 40D (now $1099) at the same time. Essentially, many of us are looking at a loss of $700, if we are upgrading.
From the Canon web site ... a description of the new vignetting correction feature:
Camera Adjusts Tricky Details.
New Lens Peripheral Illumination Correction setting to automatically even the brightness across the image.
Canon's exclusive Lens Peripheral Illumination setting takes into account any light falloff in the corners of the frame and corrects it, making for a perfectly exposed image. Correction data are detected automatically on a number of Canon EF lenses and can be entered manually through the included Canon EOS Utility software.
do what I do, I let the beta testers do their job in the first 2-3 months, then once the price goes down a bit, wait a bit more...then wait a bit more. By then ,1 year has passed by and the camera becomes $600 cheaper. Imagine the gas $ saved....
LCollector wrote:
do what I do, I let the beta testers do their job in the first 2-3 months, then once the price goes down a bit, wait a bit more...then wait a bit more. By then ,1 year has passed by and the camera becomes $600 cheaper. Imagine the gas $ saved....
By that time the 70D will be announced and the cycle starts all over again .
kodakeos wrote:
i laughed at the 30D upgrade, and jumped on the 40D, but i am seriously thinking about the 50D.. the UDMA, better screen and viewfinder....higher res, possible pixel binning, ultra high ISOs...
Like you I laughed at the 30D upgrade, and jumped on the 40D but unlike you the 50D extracts nothing but yawns from me.
CA = Creative Auto. You get to move sliders on the full auto program to decide wether you want more or less DOF or adjusting the brightness of the image. Wow... They have re-invented the P (as in "plonker" - David Noton) and dubbed it CA. Yet maintained to have the P program still present. WHY??!
Right now I'm praying that the mode dial on the 5D mk II will feature AV, TV, M and C1-3. But we'll probably see that lovely green rectangle along with the other P&S (or is that POS?) modes. Sigh.
Edited by Kaffemonster on Aug 26, 2008 at 10:22 AM GMT
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