Canon Canada
The 40D has been removed from a couple of Canon price lists, but not all.
Canon Canada is offered refurb 40D’s to dealers, this is usually a good sign a camera is done. They carry a 90 day warranty in Canada, so be careful if you buy one.
You should see refurb bodies appearing for $749 – $799 CAD or so.
It’s still not officially discontinued by Canon.
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Wow, so soon. It will be missed.
One of the last croppers that still had reasonable pixel sizes!
any news on the 60D?
I am in the minority by agreeing with you on this issues. I have argued this and many disagree.
At some point this megapixel race nonsense has to end. It is like the megahertz race of the late 90’s. Customers think it means a lot more then it really does. I would rather have gapless micro lenses, higher AD bit count, etc
There is only so many pixels you can cram is APS-C sensor before it starts to hurt low light sensitivity. Even in the conclusion of the dpreview.com 50D review it states under the cons of the 50D that “High ISO performance worse than 40D”
Please canon put a end to this megapixel nonsense.
The 6D around August 2009. With 2 new EF-S lenses. Ti around June 2009. And the big one 1D MKV February 2010 with a new flash 600EX/610EX and 3 Zoom redo’s on some current lenses. 2010 will be a good year. Many models will be upgraded to: 550D, 7D, 5D MKIII, 1D MKV, and this one is a wild card the 1MF.
anything else on the wish list?
Wow, what a shame. A fantastic camera. Funny, I just had mine repaired under warrantee for a focus issue and it’s being discontinued already… incredible. I traded up from the 30D but would not trade it for the 50D for anything.
My 40D will NOT be missed. That’s because I am keeping it and will keep using it until it stops taking fantastic photos. Long live my 40D!
I love my 40d, and when I upgrade to FF, I will keep this one for walkaround/tourism and backup camera. Simply put the first professional digital SLR for under $1000,- in my opinion.
Great colours, sharpness, MPX number exactly right, great noise performance, ergonomics, FPS, price… it just has it all!
yep…bought a 50D….sold it a month later and bought a 5D…. I felt that after looking at the 50D files I saw the writing on the wall for APS-C…. not that its dead yet but the way its going a FF sensor will be able to handle more of this megapixel nonsense than a crop sensor (after all a 21mpx sensor has pixel about the size of those on the 20D)…
hell throw in either a 500/5.6 or 600/5,6 and we’re set ;)
“At some point this megapixel race nonsense has to end. […] I would rather have […] higher AD bit count.”
Ah, the irony!
I’m sure that you meant to write that you’d rather have higher dynamic range. We don’t need bit count “race nonsense” where one camera can only output a pixel value of “3.141” while a fancy new camera can output “3.14100000000000”.
I guess it’s time for to get one and sell my nice 450D :)
Good Riddance, mine is a piece of junk! I think the 10 MP looks grainy, I can’t imagine how they stuffed 16 MP into the 50D. I think they should have stopped at 8.
good night, sweet 40D. may a host of angels sing thee to thine sleep.
beer time.
I sold my 40D last August preparing to upgrade to the 5D MK II. I missed it so much that I bought another used one. I did buy the 5D II, but haven’t been using the 40D since. Still, when the snow goes away and my injured foot heals, I’ll be using both.
I want a superior ultra wide angle for the 5D MK II and am still waiting for the best one, as well as being able to afford $2,000 or more.
I ended up getting my 40D just a month ago, because I was worried about not being able to get a crop cam, with a reasonable mp count. Looks like I got it at just the right time.
I’m going to buy one, so : if I wait, is the 50Ds’ price going down ? Same as the actual 40D price ?
Or is the 50D price just stay the same, and the 60D price will be highter ?
Thx
It means it’s really time to get one :)
PS: thank you Mr. Canon and thanks to the 50D :)
The cam realeasing is going faster. The 60D should appear at the end of the year. For a decent price, you’ll have to wait about 3 months minimum. At it’s end, I guess that the prices of the 50D like the 60D will same as the 40D is nowadays :)
So at this point, you can wait years and years without buying any cameras because there always be something new, a new cam, new stuff, and you could say to yourself that you should wait a little bit, more and more :/
I stopped on the 40D and I’m gonna get it this week :)
Good luck to your choice mate ;)
Thx a lot :-)