This camera includes weather/dust proof, sensor cleaning and uses same sensor as rebel XTi! However, 14-bit A/D (4x times color collection than 30D), highlight tone priority, 9 point CROSS TYPE with double precision center AF (first for any EOS), larger viewfinder, 6.5FPS with 75jpeg/17RAW buffer size! and best of all, $1299 body only cost!
Competition is great and this will be the hottest selling Canon XXD series period! Just mark my words - this will be the most sold xxD body ever!
We don't know if it sports the SAME sensor as the xti. In fact, it would surprise me it it does. However, the sensor has the same size as the xti/400D based one, indeed.
Can't wait for the first reviews to arrive! And yeah, a 40D giveaway is demanded. ;)
NO, we know it is the SAME SENSOR as the REbel XTi:
Sensor size: • 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS sensor
40D sensor size (speculative on amazon): • 22.2 x 14.8 millimeters
Straight from the blurb: "Improved Image Quality
Although it is based on the image sensor used in the EOS Digital Rebel XTi, the EOS 40D Digital SLR's 10.1-megapixel CMOS APS-C size image sensor has been significantly improved thanks to the use of larger microlenses over each pixel to reduce noise and expand sensitivity up to ISO 3200. "
"Adding to the improved virtuosity of the images captured by the EOS 40D SLR is the camera's 14-bit Analog-to-Digital (A/D) conversion process. Able to recognize 16,384 colors per channel (four times the number of colors recognized by the EOS 30D SLR's 12-bit conversion capability), the EOS 40D camera is able to produce images with finer and more accurate gradations of tones and colors. The EOS 40D also incorporates the optional Highlight Tone Priority and High-ISO Noise Reduction functions first introduced earlier this year with the EOS-1D Mark III Professional Digital SLR."
Sorry - I misread your posting - I meant it is the same SIZE...but of course to make it a true 40D (30D upgrade), one must improve the sensor ;-)
That's awfully small sensor - I don't know if the 14bit A/D will really make a difference - at least the MARK3 had significantly better DR because it was at least APS-H sized. This sensor is tiny compared to the D200 - but yet every spec on this 40D trounces the D200. And it costs $300 less! Competition at its finest!
Well. As you said in your last post, it's not technically the same sensor. They may have used the same technology to make it, but as it must be able to capture and send data streams to be converted into 14 bit data, I believe Canon have redesigned the circuitry on the silicone wafer as well. (A CMOS sensor doesn't only contain a array of light sensitive spots, but also 'stuff' that converts that into data that are sent to a picture processor for further processing, and compression.)
Oh, and 14 bit is better than 12 bit, because then it's able to capture more colour 'richness' in the same picture than before. More colour nuances, better saturated picture.
D200, rip your heart out. Now you've got a REAL competitor. ;)
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Canon Shooter @ Aug 19th 2007 8:10AM
This camera includes weather/dust proof, sensor cleaning and uses same sensor as rebel XTi! However, 14-bit A/D (4x times color collection than 30D), highlight tone priority, 9 point CROSS TYPE with double precision center AF (first for any EOS), larger viewfinder, 6.5FPS with 75jpeg/17RAW buffer size! and best of all, $1299 body only cost!
Competition is great and this will be the hottest selling Canon XXD series period! Just mark my words - this will be the most sold xxD body ever!
Michael Christoffersen @ Aug 19th 2007 8:45AM
We don't know if it sports the SAME sensor as the xti. In fact, it would surprise me it it does. However, the sensor has the same size as the xti/400D based one, indeed.
Can't wait for the first reviews to arrive! And yeah, a 40D giveaway is demanded. ;)
Canon Shooter @ Aug 19th 2007 8:48AM
NO, we know it is the SAME SENSOR as the REbel XTi:
Sensor size:
• 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS sensor
40D sensor size (speculative on amazon):
• 22.2 x 14.8 millimeters
Straight from the blurb:
"Improved Image Quality
Although it is based on the image sensor used in the EOS Digital Rebel XTi, the EOS 40D Digital SLR's 10.1-megapixel CMOS APS-C size image sensor has been significantly improved thanks to the use of larger microlenses over each pixel to reduce noise and expand sensitivity up to ISO 3200. "
"Adding to the improved virtuosity of the images captured by the EOS 40D SLR is the camera's 14-bit Analog-to-Digital (A/D) conversion process. Able to recognize 16,384 colors per channel (four times the number of colors recognized by the EOS 30D SLR's 12-bit conversion capability), the EOS 40D camera is able to produce images with finer and more accurate gradations of tones and colors. The EOS 40D also incorporates the optional Highlight Tone Priority and High-ISO Noise Reduction functions first introduced earlier this year with the EOS-1D Mark III Professional Digital SLR."
Canon Shooter @ Aug 19th 2007 8:53AM
Sorry - I misread your posting - I meant it is the same SIZE...but of course to make it a true 40D (30D upgrade), one must improve the sensor ;-)
That's awfully small sensor - I don't know if the 14bit A/D will really make a difference - at least the MARK3 had significantly better DR because it was at least APS-H sized. This sensor is tiny compared to the D200 - but yet every spec on this 40D trounces the D200. And it costs $300 less! Competition at its finest!
Michael Christoffersen @ Aug 21st 2007 1:49PM
Well. As you said in your last post, it's not technically the same sensor. They may have used the same technology to make it, but as it must be able to capture and send data streams to be converted into 14 bit data, I believe Canon have redesigned the circuitry on the silicone wafer as well. (A CMOS sensor doesn't only contain a array of light sensitive spots, but also 'stuff' that converts that into data that are sent to a picture processor for further processing, and compression.)
Oh, and 14 bit is better than 12 bit, because then it's able to capture more colour 'richness' in the same picture than before. More colour nuances, better saturated picture.
D200, rip your heart out. Now you've got a REAL competitor. ;)
Chris @ Aug 19th 2007 11:12PM
I just hope the viewfinder is bigger, like the D200's and the new 1D MkIII.