{"id":712,"date":"2007-03-06T21:55:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/06\/40d-surprise-features-in-a-forum\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T17:08:45","slug":"40d-surprise-features-in-a-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/06\/40d-surprise-features-in-a-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"40D: Surprise features in a forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dpreview.com\/forums\/readflat.asp?forum=1019&#038;thread=22325593\">in a DPReview forum<\/a>, it was heard a set of features for the yet-unannounced Canon EOS 40D. You&#8217;d better be solidly in your seat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Live viewfinder (selectable)<\/li>\n<li>In Body IS (adding stabilisation to IS lenses when mounted)<\/li>\n<li>Good integrated sensor cleaning<\/li>\n<li>More Mega Pixels<\/li>\n<li>Better Noise management at higher Iso<\/li>\n<li>Weather sealed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can this really be the feature set of the successor to the 20D and 30D? Will the Canon EOS 40D shooting at these heights? I admit that, even if given some time to finish the product, Canon would have a real hard time to do so (However they already surprised the competition before, so who knows?).<\/p>\n<p>Live view finder (I suppose it means loosing the reflex viewfinder in favor of a video display) would be a major surprise and would not be accepted as a positive progress by most SLR users. However, if this is the addition of a Live View to support photo studio shooting connected to a computer, quite a few users would be delighted.<\/p>\n<p>In-body image stabilization would be like an earthquake: Canon (one of the most active supporters of in-lens IS with Nikon) would follow the general move to in-body IS? Shocking! but if this allows to effectively have twice the stabilization, let&#8217;s congratulate Canon. Anyway, most automaton systems engineers would remember that two close-loop systems in synch like that would not automatically double the performance. It would depend a lot on how the body and the lens cooperate, and the specification of the lens IS system may be the limiting factor (even on high-end lenses). In short, this would be a surprising marketing move (albeit understandable for the entry-level positionning of Canon) and a significant technical achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Sensor cleaning would be in line with the recent evolution and the Canon EOS 400D.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More mega-pixels&#8221; looks a lot like an empty marketing line. Who would be surprised by this? What news is there in this?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Better noise management at higher ISO&#8221; is a similar empty statement if we just look at what has been happening any time a new D-SLR product arrived on the market for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Weather-sealed is more significant. I have been very impressed by the Pentax achievement with the K10D (now exploited by Samsung with the GX10, too). Canon <em>must<\/em> take notice of an SLR camera under $1000 and weather-sealed. This looks like the most pro-looking D-SLR camera on the market. What should Canon do with that? Offer more than this at a similar price or just a little higher. However, it is difficult to determine if Canon is ready now for this counter-move. However, the 40D would be the natural price point to introduce such a significant product.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s up to you to decide whether or not this message in DPR was adding to the rumours about the future\/upcoming Canon EOS 40D. To me, it feels like wishful thinking. I am looking a lot at what is found on the Internet about this future Canon product, but I am quite hesitant to accept this as information.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait a little more to know the truth since Canon confirmed that there will be no additional announcement in the PMA this month. If there is a 40D, it will have to come later, maybe in the Summer of 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in a DPReview forum, it was heard a set of features for the yet-unannounced Canon EOS 40D. You&#8217;d better be solidly in your seat: Live viewfinder (selectable) In Body IS (adding stabilisation to IS lenses when mounted) Good integrated sensor cleaning More Mega Pixels Better Noise management at higher Iso Weather sealed Can this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,71,32,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buy-a-dslr","category-canon-eos-40d","category-photo","category-tech","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}