50D Announced

12.45 Delivered!

Shiny new 50D sitting on my desk next to me now :D I just want to go home and play :help:
 
Many thanks Cosmix, I'll be getting some sample shots up as soon as I can :thumbs:
 
Grendel said:
12.45 Delivered!

Shiny new 50D sitting on my desk next to me now :D I just want to go home and play :help:
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Grendel wins!!!

Get the battery charged and sort out some settings while you are at work then it will be ready for you to use tonight when you get home!!

I find hat new toys can give a bad headache within an hour if they are not properly taken out and used so on health grounds an early finish is in order :lol:
 
susie said:
I find hat new toys can give a bad headache within an hour if they are not properly taken out and used so on health grounds an early finish is in order :lol:
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Like your thinking Susie! :lol:
 
no test shots yet - its 17.05!
 
pmsl :lol: :D

Give me a chance, I haven't left work yet :p :(
 
Could one of you lucky people with a new 50D tell me if its raw files can be opened by CS3, or do we have to get the new CS4? Thanks.
 
I *believe* that ACR 4.6 plug in for CS3, supports the 50D but can only be downloaded from Adobe Labs as it's still in beta.

LINKY

I will probably be trying it out myself tonight so I'll let you know for sure as soon as I know :)
 
Thanks Grendel, I do not want to splash out on a 50D if I have to get CS4 as well. (Yes I know there are other raw converters, but I get on well with the intergrated adobe one in CS3!)
Incidentely, has the Digital rev price gone up? I can only find it at £955?
 
Hmmm it seems to have done :( I definitely only paid £847 for mine but can now only see it at £955 on their site today :nono: Maybe the price I paid was an error :shrug: I'm bleedin' lucky if it was :)
 
Yours arrived quickly Grendel, hopefully mine will follow suit!

BTW, do they actually ship from HK or do they have stock in this country? And I paid £847 too :)
 
tigerimages said:
Yours arrived quickly Grendel, hopefully mine will follow suit!

BTW, do they actually ship from HK or do they have stock in this country? And I paid £847 too :)
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Definitely shipped from HK :)
 
33L said:
erm example shots please!
all ISO ranges etc...
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posted in about three other places, but once more for luck :)

(am going to go down to the woods tomorrow to take some 'real' shots).


I still have my 40D until I sell it, but didn't do direct comparisons to 40D. I was more interested to see what was usable and what wasn't. These are all out of camera JPG, standard style, NR set to 'standard'. Tripod, MLU. Canon 24-105 set to f4. Light was low, indoors at ISO 200 and f4 I was getting 1/13 second.

personally I'm very happy with 3200. Bear in mind these are 100% crops so not a realistic setting for eg a print. (there is a full shot at the bottom of the post if you want to check it out at different sizes)

Overall picture for reference:


100% crops at

ISO 200


ISO 1600


ISO 3200


ISO 6400


ISO 12800



Here's a link to the fullsized toys shot at ISO 3200
 
and some of a focus target thingy from a magazine I shot too in case it helps show detail Vs noise?


Overall picture for reference:


100% crops at

ISO 1600


ISO 3200


ISO 6400


ISO 12800
 
I'm trying to convince DHL to leave mine at the Norwich depot which is about 1 1/2 miles from my house rather than taking it back to the International Hub which is at Cambridge - a good 2 1/2 hour round trip away (assuming I want to collect it)
 
Well looking at those pics, I see a clear two stops improvement in noise compared to the 40D. I use the 40D at 800 ISO a lot, but rarely any faster if I can help it.

Looks good. :thumbs:
 
CT said:
Well looking at those pics, I see a clear two stops improvement in noise compared to the 40D. I use the 40D at 800 ISO a lot, but rarely any faster if I can help it.

Looks good. :thumbs:
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same here. I used to go to 800 but no higher. I'd happily use 3200 on the 50D. Needs some more testing but I'm pretty happy so far. And 100% isn't realistic anyway - 6400 might be usable with a little post processing on print sizes - don't usually print higher than 8x10s anyway for normal shots.
 
:thumbs: Nice one Andrew :)
 
Mine is here, haven't used it yet though. Got mine from digital rev and was rather surprised and excited to see it come in a "with kit lens" box even though I hadn't paid for it. There was no kit lens though. I'll have to make do with the 300mm F2.8 that I ordered with it thats sat at the DHL facility at the East Midlands Airport.
 
andrewc said:
was really hoping to get an English manual with it, but as most is the same as 40D I guess I'll cope
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I had the same problem Andrew. I've bought from Digital Rev before and always had English manuals so I sent them an email and they replied saying they were sorry, it was a mistake to have sent Chinese manuals. They promised to send English versions by Airmail straight away.
 
Same here Grendel. It's a fascinating language but I'll be buggered if I can make head nor tail of it. I've contacted them too so hopefully they'll oblige seeing as they've had £2500 of my hard earned money this week!
 
tigerimages said:
Same here Grendel. It's a fascinating language but I'll be buggered if I can make head nor tail of it.
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lol yeah I couldn't even work out which way up to hold the booklet :D
 
andrewc said:
was really hoping to get an English manual with it, but as most is the same as 40D I guess I'll cope
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Grendel said:
I had the same problem Andrew. I've bought from Digital Rev before and always had English manuals so I sent them an email and they replied saying they were sorry, it was a mistake to have sent Chinese manuals. They promised to send English versions by Airmail straight away.
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There's a copy posted here to get you going http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/0300001591/01/eos50d-h-en.pdf

Bob
 
Thanks Bob & Andrew :thumbs:

According to Digital Rev there has been a shortage of English manuals. That seems to be true as I spoke to Robert Scott who also said they are having difficulty in getting English manuals for the 50D atm
 
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