Save money!
The following are instant rebates from Canon Canada.

T1i (June 15 – July 13)
$50 Savings

For the retailer to qualify for the rebate, they must give away a 16gb SD card.

50D (June 8 – July 5)
$150 instant rebate for any 50D purchased.

Still no word on a real rebate program in Canada.

cr

The new autofocus system is apparently built on the current 1D system. It’s not going to be completely new. That doesn’t really worry me at all.

50D AF

copyright Ethan Meleg

A friend of mine who is a professional nature photographer and insanely avid birder has been shooting with a 50D recently.

He’s been quite impressed with the AF system.

“I’ve been using my new 50D body and have found it to be excellent for bird photography. I’m most impressed with the incredibly quick and accurate autofocus, as well as the fast frame rate. It blows away my 1DsIII body for shooting birds.”

You can visit his blog and check out his last 2 posts for pics taken with the 50D here.

I posted this because he’s a real world photographer out there everyday.

cr

After some searching, there is a thread at DPR about it from a while ago.

http://forums.dpreview.com/……

Why hasn’t it been released to the world yet? Perhaps Canon is updating the firmware a little bit more and we’ll see a 1.0.6 instead.

I’d love to see a picture of 1.0.5 installed on a camera.

thanks elektronkind

cr

Retailers have to prove there has been money exchanged from a customer for a pre-order.

1) Canon must receive a fax from the retailer proving money has been taken for the 5D Mark II. Sales receipts or whatever.

2) Once this has been done by retailers, then Canon will set the allocation as to which stores get what. No proof of preorder…. No camera shipment.

3) Canon must receive this information by Friday, November 14, 2008 or no cameras for you.

4) This basically assures no one is getting the $2799 pricing.

UPDATE
I’m unsure if this is Canada only, if anyone else from other areas of the planet have any info… please let me know.

Canon Canada updates web site
Canon Rumors and its loyal readers can take credit for making Canon Canada admit they have 1Ds Mark III’s. It’s now on the Canon Canada web site.

We’re taking credit until Canon says otherwise.

1Ds Mark III

cr

Conclusion Page of DPR Review

cr

1. Corrects a phenomenon in which an image becomes overexposed when C.Fn.II-3 Highlight tone priority is set to “1″ together with other camera settings. (This correction has already been incorporated in the Version 1.0.2 and later firmware.
2. Corrects a rare phenomenon in which “busy” blinks on the camera’s display panel and the shutter cannot be released due to the timing of battery installation.
3. Corrects a rare phenomenon in which “Err 99″ appears on the camera’s display panel and LCD monitor and the shutter cannot be released due to the timing of pressing the shutter button.

Download

cr

Decent review. I find their reviews a little bit safe a lot of time. You can flat out diss a camera if you want. :)

cr

40D “Mark II” Specs:

• New 12 MP gapless microlens CMOS sensor which employs the 5D markII improved output amplifier, and a more advanced color filter with superior light transmission
• Digic IV
• 100-3200 base ISO, expanded L1- 50, H1- 6400
• Liveview with new more advanced algorithm contrast based AF with tracking capabilities
• Movie mode, with the ability to use the upper mentioned contrast AF
• 5D Mark II LCD
• 5D Mark II battery system
• AF Microajustment
• Fulltime Weathersealing
• Everything else, same specs from the 40D…

Someone just wishing for stuff that doesn’t exist. Or wishing the 50D was more than it is.

As for CR’s 50D review, It’s coming. I’m waiting on getting an 18-200 to use with it.

cr

These are all hand held shots without much thought. I think the camera performed pretty well at 1600 & 3200.

I’m taking it to a wedding on Saturday and will use some fast primes. I’ll then be doing some ice hockey and landscape stuff for the review. Expect that to be done in the next couple of weeks.

There are some things I like about the camera and few things I don’t, but I’ll get into that later.

Happy Shooting.

UPDATE
To clarify, there was no in camera noise reduction done. There was nothing done to the files in DPP 3.5. These are as shot. AWB seemed to miss a couple times. That’s a Canon feature though. :)

Full Resolution Shots At:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29246563@N04/

ISO 1600 – Couldn’t Track a BIF

ISO 12,800. Some noise :)

ISO 3200 @ f/1.4. Slight Crop

ISO 3200

ISO 3200 and Cropped

ISO 1600 and Popup Flash Used

ISO 100 and 22 Second Exposure

Full Resolution Shots At:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29246563@N04/

Bummer.

I have a 50D now
I had to wait just like everyone else. I'll be taking the 50D out tonight for a test drive and will post some images.

I will then proceed on the full review.

UPDATE