Canon 50D announced.
There's some debate whether it will be complementing or replacing the 40D, but in either case it seems a very desirable camera. Big resolution upgrade in both the sensor and the LCD, and improved high ISO performance despite that. Impressive. And it's not even bigger than the 40D.
Personally I would have been as happy with no resolution upgrade and just even better low light performance, but heck.
They have also announced a new superzoom to match Nikon's, which I have and love. And Canon is very proud of the performance. This is sure to be an extremely popular lens, just like Nikon's.
Both the 50D and the new Nikon D90 are very strong cameras. But it is beginning to looking like neither Canon nor Nikon is ever going to get in-body image stabilization. What a gyp. This means, amongst other things, that there is no way to combine a really fast lens with IS for a super-low-light camera.
Canon has also announced one of the smallest and cheapest superzoom compacts yet.
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I feel gypped already. There really isn't much innovation or daring in this camera that Nikon didn't already have. More megapixels? Please. Microlenses, just for that? The new lens looks more interesting than the new camera, but for the fact that I don't need a megazoom IS at this stage. Higher ISO's? Well we saw that coming too. It's helpful and useful, but no panacea, and again... not really new. So where's the beef, the game-changer?
One might say with some justification that since the first 6MP cameras, there have been no "game changing" upgrades, only evolutionary ones. But those really add up.
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