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A Great Upgrade For Moderately Experienced Photographers

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A Quick Tip by dalydose

Aug 24, 2009

by dalydose

Love this camera. It's not only fun, but I make money with it. I just need more lenses!

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review by emmapersky. July 27, 2009

Great Camera if Paired with Prime Lenses

This great camera is the one I have used to shoot all of the Whuffaoke or Bust tour. I bought it body only (the kit lenses are worthless) and paired it with two Canon Prime lenses, a 20mm 2.8 and a 50mm 1.4. With these lenses it handles fantastically in low light situations, and if you shoot in raw then you can recover enough from H (3200 ISO) setting for fantastic photos. The feature set mirrors that of Canon's higher end bodies with this … more

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review by Trontastic. January 27, 2009

A Next Logical Step in Equipment

The Canon 40D is an excellent upgrade idea for any photographer looking to graduate from the camera they learned to shoot on. The clarity is excellent and the larger LCD display makes it much easier to see whats going on. There are more advanced features that will continue to help you expand your knowledge and test your limits as a photographer. My only caution would be low light situations. The auto-focus gets a bit sluggish in dark scenarios. Other … more

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General

Product Type Digital camera - SLR
Weight 1.5 lbs
Width 5.7 in
Depth 2.9 in
Height 4.3 in
Body Material Magnesium alloy

Main Features

Resolution 10.1 megapixels
Sensor resolution 10.1 megapixels
Optical Sensor Type CMOS
Effective Sensor Resolution 10,500,000 pixels
Total Pixels 10,100,000 pixels
Light Sensitivity ISO 3200 , ISO 100-1600
Field of View Crop Factor 1.6
Max Shutter Speed 1/8000 sec
Sensor Dust Reduction Yes
Min Shutter Speed 30 sec
Sensor Features EOS Integrated Cleaning System
X-sync Speed 1/250 sec
Exposure Metering Spot , Evaluative , Partial (9%) , Center-weighted
Exposure Modes Bulb, Manual, Program, Automatic, Depth-of-field, Shutter-priority, Aperture-priority, E-TTL II program flash
Exposure Compensation ?3 EV range, in 1/2 or 1/3 EV steps
White Balance Custom , Presets , Automatic
White Balance Presets Flash , Shade , Cloudy , Daylight , Fluorescent , Tungsten light , 2500K - 10000K (100K steps)
Status LCD Display Information Program , Aperture , Drive mode , Film speed , Flash mode , Focus area , Frame counter , Metering mode , Photo quality , Shutter speed , Autofocus mode , Self-timer mode , Photos remaining , Battery condition , Manual focus mode , Red-eye reduction , Exposure compensation , White balance indicators
Still Image Format RAW, JPEG, RAW + JPEG
Continuous Shooting Speed ...