Again, Chasseur d’Images provided its forecast/rumour collection for the upcoming Canon 40D. Since some people wanted to see the list because it may be difficult to find the magazine out of Western Europe, here is a summary:
- Same chassis as the 30D
- Same viewfinder as the 30D
- No specific weather protection (competitive disadvantage against Nikon and Pentax)
- 12/13 Mpixels APS-C sensor with LiveView (as on the Canon 1D MkIII) with a possible USB or Wifi control
- 14-bit encoding (as in the Canon 1D MkIII)
- 1600 and 3200 ISO
- Sensor cleaning
- Still no wireless flash
- Same read LCD as on the Canon 30D
- 5 frames/second
- Improved AF, but no real detail about it or any forecast
- 1/8000s max speed (with 1/250s flash synchro)
Personnally, I found interesting the possible convergence with some of the features of the Canon 5D (I see the advantage Canon would have to do this), but Chasseur d’Images still keeps a possible Canon 3D in a rumoured timeline for 2008.