Canon’s marketing department obviously decided at some point that megapixels would be their main focus for 2008, with boosts for the G10, the 5D Mark II, and the Canon EOS 50D. With 15.1 megapixels the 50D swooped into the top position for APS-C ..read more

The Canon EOS 50D made some noticeable improvements to the Canon 40D, including a 15.1 megapixel sensor, an increase in ISO sensitivity, 920k 3 inch LCD, and DIGIC 4 processing. In a review at Photography Bay, Eric is somewhat discouraged by the ..read more

Canon has released a firmware update for the EOS 50D that addresses the “err99″ message that has been the topic of some discussion on the “forums”. From Canon:

In a review of both the Canon EOS 50D and the Nikon D90, Digital Outback Photo posted some high ISO shots that can make for some interesting image comparisons. It isn’t scientific by any means, but I think the Nikon D90 ..read more

Doubts as to whether the 15 megapixels tightly packed on the Canon EOS 50D’s APS-C sensor might contribute to noise problems, especially at higher ISO, should be somewhat eased, based on these impressive image samples.

The image samples at 1600 ..read more

This is ISO 1600 straight from the camera of Flickr member turbodude, who has lots of crops at high ISO here…

Obviously the DIGIC IV is doing a bang up job on ISO 1600 and 3200. Still got some banding when it ..read more

It’s a two for one.

Image samples from the new Canon EOS 50D paired with the Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS can be see here. As with the DPR 50D samples the other day, I’m pretty sure these are with pre-production firmware so keep ..read more

I’ve been waiting to see these, and DPR has finally got them up here…

I can see the 15 megapixels is bringing home lots of detail, and high ISO image quality is quite good, judging by the few here. I’ll point out that ISO ..read more