Canon EOS 50D review and tutorial

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Canon EOS 50D

Externally the EOS 50D abundantly resembles the EOS 40D. The ambit are identical and there’s alone a slight aberration in weight with the fresh archetypal advancing in a few grams lighter. Best of the above differences are internal, with the banderole affection actuality a cogent addition in resolution from 10.1 to 15.1 Megapixels application a anew advised APS-C CMOS sensor. This takes the EOS 50D calmly above the 12.2 Megapixels of the cheaper EOS 450D / XSi which itself had leapfrogged the EOS 40D.

Canon’s EOS 50D is the company’s best contempo semi-professional DSLR. It comes one year afterwards the accepted EOS 40D, but doesn’t alter it – as yet anyway. Both models will co-exist in the bazaar at altered amount points, at atomic for the blow of 2008.

Squeezing 15.1 Megapixels assimilate an APS-C sensor additionally makes it the accomplished pixel body from Canon to date – which understandably raises apropos over babble levels and activating range. Canon claims it has countered this by implementing gapless micro-lenses to maximise sensitivity, while additionally optimising the adjustment and admeasurement of the photodiodes.

Canon EOS 50D

Confident in its fresh sensor’s greater efficiency, Canon’s additionally additional its best acuteness from 3200 ISO on the 40D to 12,800 ISO on the EOS 50D, complete with four levels of Aerial ISO Babble Reduction. So has Canon absolutely managed to bout or alike advance on the 40D’s achievement while carrying 50% added Megapixels and four times the best sensitivity? You’ll acquisition out in our abounding review.

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The Megapixel-count may accept added by about 50%, but there’s alone a apportioned bead in connected cutting achievement with the EOS 50D boasting 6.3fps to the 40D’s 6.5fps. Angel processing is address of the best contempo DIGIC 4 which offers ‘Peripheral Illumination Correction’ on JPEGs to abate the aftereffect of vignetting area the angel darkens appear the corners. Staying on the accountable of lenses, the EOS 50D additionally appearance the acceptable ability of fine-tuning the AF on lenses, affiliated from Canon’s pro range.

Physically speaking the big fresh affection is a college resolution screen. The 50D’s awning may admeasurement the aforementioned 3in as that on the 40D, but it now boasts 920k dots to the 40D’s 230k. This is the aboriginal VGA adviser from Canon and matches the resolution of contempo higher-end Nikon and Sony bodies. The 50D additionally becomes the aboriginal Canon DSLR with an HDMI port.

So aloof one year on from the already able EOS 40D, Canon has added the absolute pixel calculation by 50%, while quadrupling the acuteness and packing-in all the best contempo appearance – afar from a cine approach anyway. Many of these upgrades are in acknowledgment to Nikon’s D300 which out-featured the EOS 40D back launched, and charcoal one of the best able bodies today.

So the big questions are whether the EOS 50D’s feature-set is a bout for its accomplished rival, and crucially if Canon’s managed to bout or beat the beforehand 40D’s aerial ISO achievement admitting a 50% backpack in Megapixels. Acquisition out in our abounding analysis area we’ll appraise the fresh appearance in convenance and anon analyze the 50D’s affection adjoin the 40D and Nikon’s best contempo D90. As always, you can see a affirmation of its key appearance in our Canon EOS 50D video tour.