Bye Bye Canon 40D
Well that wasn’t long. The previous post was just raving about how I was the proud owner of a Canon 40D DSLR camera, and now I’m saying bye bye to it?? Well just after my fiancee got it, Canon went ahead and announced the 50D, the successor. Thankfully she got the 40D from Costco which has a pretty good return policy. So now I’m toting around a 50D instead.
The 50D has 15MP vs the 40D’s 10MP, but what I’m more impressed with is the improved speed (the 50D uses a newer Digic processor) and the low-light performance. The 50D can really crank up the ISO as compared to the 40D. While I’m not super interested in max’ing out the ISO setting, what I read from that is that Canon has made improvements in reducing picture noise. From some of my test shots, this certainly seems the case.
The 40D is a fantastic camera (I shot about 600 frames with it on a trip to Croatia), but it made no sense to keep it given the fact we could so easily upgrade to the 50D. Now if I only I had any photographic talent.