40D ad?

I've found this on the Photography-on-the-net forum. A poster claims this ad is going to be published in October's Shutterbug edition.

40D available at your local dealers by the end of August!

Here's a scan of a today's newspaper article:



Specs translation:
-10 mpix
-3" LCD
-antidust
-sRAW
-6 fps

5D mkII

I came across an interesting rumour at POTN forums. The OP claims, a Vistek rep told him that the 5D MkII would be out this fall with the same 16MP full-frame sensor as the Canon 1Ds Mk II. He got the confirmatin that 40D would be out in a matter of weeks.

40D photos

Those photos were published on a Spanish site, but the content is no longer there. I won't bore you with speculations and will get right to the photos this time:

Canon's 50 mpix camera

I've read on Dpreview forums that, september's edition of UK magazine T3 has mention on page 60 of a 50Mp Canon camera coming in 2008 to definitively bury 35mm film.

The only way this could be true is, if Canon is developing a MF camera (there were a lot of MF rumours before last year's Photokina).

30D prices are lower then ever

I was just checking the prices on geizhals yesterday and found out that prices dropped below 800 EUR (that's $1090 US). There was an offer for 773 EUR, but it wasn't there today anymore. Price are dropping fast, so I can only conclude that 40D is really close. I'd say August 20-23 are the most possible dates for announcement. Since I really don't expect it to be revolutionary (check all the previous rumoured specs), I'll buy a 30D after the announcement, which will drive the prices down even further. I hope below 700 EUR.

An article about september 40D announcement

I found it on Chasseur d' Images site (which is a magazine as well). It doesn't say anything about specs, just that 40D and Nikon D300 are going to be announced in september.

There are currently many rumoured specs on various sites and forums. All of them are pretty much the same, some differentiate only by mpix count, everything else seems to be the same (5 fps, no weather sealing, same body and LCD...). I just hope that VF is going to be bigger.

Without at least one of the following features, I think it's going to have a hard time competing with Nikon D300, besides that they might loose a small percentage to Pentax k10d:
-weather sealing (D300 will have it, k10D has it)
-larger VF (D300 will have it, k10d has it)
-image stabilisation (that won't happen, but k10d has it)