It's done
DPR has completed their review of the 50D (No, I haven't finished mine.). I agree with some of their negatives and I'll even be adding a few (teaser!).
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the 50D is good news. it means a cheaper 40D, and a 60D on the way before you know it that will be the true evolution of the 40.
This is great news when I go to sell my 40D on eBay to help pay for the 5DII as the 40D is probably a better camera. :)
I was right on the money on all the bad things about the 50D. It took me 1 day of real work to figure out the camera sucked and back to RitzCamera it went… I don’t care about the technical aspect of things, just how reliable the camera is under real-life circumstances.
And thanx to that Error99 issue RitzCamera didn’t charge me a restocking fee.
I really, really hope the 5D2 is not so bad… Owning a 1Ds III and 1D III I am spoiled.
Cheers
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I cancelled my pre order from Ritz before the 50D became available and bought a used but almost new 40D.
I have a 5D MK II on pre-order, but I suspect that we will see some of the same things, meaing that image quality will not be a big step ahead of the 5D, and raw noise may be higher.
If so, I’ll be looking at a 1D MK III since prices for it are dropping to be in the range of the 5D MK II.
I agree that 15MP is probably too much… what about a max of 12MP (or 10MP) with all the bells and whistles + HD movie… we could call it 60D ? :-) Oh, and please, the same battery used in 5D MKII… don’t want to carry 2 different type of battery with me.