Comments on: Canon officially introduced EOS 50D

By: Dana Rodic

Dana Rodic — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:49:14 +0000

hello
this looks like pretty nice camera
can anyone tell me wht is the size of the sensor…
It says (with 1.6x crop factor), but i dont remember hof to calculate it…
Thanks

By: Giiizmo

Giiizmo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:18:22 +0000

Bigger sensor = more megapixels = more noise.

The megapixel race needs to stop, anything past 8MP is useless for the majority of people.

By: wickido

wickido — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:15:34 +0000

@ garbanzo “cool, where can i download one??”
Haha, if you find a link, please give it to me. No rapidshare please though. lol.
EOS is one of the best lines out there for camera (semi)pro’s. I happen to have something quite solid, but nothin mirror reflex. Perhaps I become a Sony Alpha 200 though for cheap though. We’ll see. I actually don’t want to carry blobby things around (though I allready have to all day )

By: A.Bundy

A.Bundy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:04:18 +0000

A picture says a thousand words. A video says a billion words. nuff said.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:27:30 +0000

@11,

I have the canon 40d, and the 15.1 mp is down towards the bottom of my list, as this has some very nice new features. The 50d is a pretty big upgrade from the 40d.

Peripheral Illumination correction is SICK.

The CMOS sensor is superior.

50D automatically corrects the dark corners (vignette) on your pictures caused by uneven light amount entering lenses. Usually the wider the lens you have, or in lower light condition, the more dark corner you will get.

Canon built a vignette database of their 82 lenses so users of 50D can correct the vignette themselves. 50D is already loaded with 26 lens vignette profiles and can be loaded up to 40 by users.

UDMC support is very nice also.

The following 2 are very compelling.

Live View AF
-EVEN the AF micro adjustment killer feature that is only seen on 1Ds MkIII is on 50D!! AF microadjust • +/- 20 steps • Adjust all lenses by same amount/individually adjust up to 20 lenses

I am hoping many of these features are in the 5dMarkII, as I want to get a Full Frame. But I am most likely gonna just improve my jedi skills with the 40d for another 2-3 years before I upgrade. But I am tempted to sell my 40d and get the 50d, VERY tempted.

Here is the press release and a review on DPreview, and it comes with a pretty nifty kit lens if you so desire.

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

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

By: bojangles

bojangles — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:16:53 +0000

I’m a long time Canon SLR user from the 35mm SLRs, and they make very well layed-out cameras. But I refuse to buy one of their digital SLRs until they provide image stabilization in-camera. Nikon and Canon are milking it in added costs in their lenses and I refuse to go that route when I can buy another camera that provides IS with ANY lens.

By: anomynous

anomynous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:01:37 +0000

Canon keeps updating their camera’s too fast. Buy one this year and there will be something much better the next.

By: oms

oms — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:00:48 +0000

$1400 wtf might as well spend the money to supercharge my 350z get 500 more HSP

By: k

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:49:52 +0000

RS links please!

By: smart

smart — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:15:08 +0000

Where can I download this camera?

By: leviathon

leviathon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:52:04 +0000

its getting like walmarts on here wrist watch adds and now cameras,have you nothing on offer in the furniture or dvd section,or maybe the clothing section lol im only joking martin.:D:D:D:D

By: Bong

Bong — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:55:14 +0000

@9 dingh mangherina
You cant buy em yet… lol…this is mostly speculation will probably even change slightly before they confirm exactly what it will have…. I guess already some places could be taking pre-orders but they wont even have guarnteed stock yet….

I have zee canon 40D and im very happy with it… the only thing that could maybe sway me towards the 50D would be 15.1MP cause i would like to be able to print even bigger lol!!! Other than that not alot else has really changed…digic n HDMI… i dont need 35 faces recognised… or a tv out lol…

Btw start of this post you call it a D50 then get it the rite way round in the header and other places in post….

By: fungle

fungle — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:16:34 +0000

Doesn’t the rlslog slogan go: “Hot info about new scene releases!” and not “Hot info about new digital cameras!” Should have posted some video camera at least so we could get better CAMs

By: dingh mangherina

dingh mangherina — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:41:38 +0000

just bought two of them, one for me and an extra one for my girl.

By: e08

e08 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:38:57 +0000

So in other words… A stalkers dream camera!

Lol, just kidding. Camera’s are so advanced these days, it’s insane! The more high-tech the high end camera’s become, so do their cheaper counter-parts, which is great news for the average consumer.