Canon 50D

Finally!!!

www.dpreview.com/previews/canoneos50d/


Looks good, still undecided if the upgrades were enough to warrant a new model. 40D might slide in price a bit though.....

Looks like it could be good for astrophotography especially with it's binning capablity

Pixel binning for high ISOs. A new technology enabled by the complexity and processing power of DIGIC IV where they can bin 2, 4 or 8 pixels together at the raw level and average out the noise between them. This is seen by Canon as a key technology in balancing very high resolution sensors (in the 50mp range) with low noise at very high ISOs. Right now they are not pushing this too much with the 50D so as to not create confusion in the market (they see more potential for the technology as sensors get larger and in the pro-market).

The ability to calibrate individual len's to the camera so as to obtain perfrect focus is also included ( previously if your lens and camera were not calibrated, you often had to send both to canon for calibration. Not nice if youve just spent 1k on a camera and similar on a lens to find they need to be tuned to work together!)

Im wondering if this ability to manually tune the lens and camera, and store settings for up to 20 lens's will allow you to tune the camera to the scope to obtain best focus possible, or is this feature just related to autofocus?

Scarry about the rapid change in technology and how quickly purchases become obsolete! :ohmy:

ayiomamitis wrote:

Scarry about the rapid change in technology and how quickly purchases become obsolete! :ohmy:

I'll say. Just grab an old issue of S&T as an example, from the early 90's and see what specs and price a decent high end CCD camera was back then...



...today they can be bought for around €40 and are called a webcam!

Hi Seanie,

I think we can all agree that amateurs are getting a bigger and better bang for their buck/euro with the passage of time.