New Canon 50D to be released in October

[Mike Hollingshead]

http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/canoneos50d_preview_samples/

They have samples up finally.

http://a.img-dpreview.com/gallery/canoneos50d_preview_samples/originals/img_0124.jpg
800 ISO. Not terrible, not great. Good for having 15 mp on that size of sensor I suppose.

http://a.img-dpreview.com/gallery/canoneos50d_preview_samples/originals/img_0107.jpg
200 ISO. Pretty clean at 200 ISO for no detail water. Pictures are huge! Pretty nuts to look at the feathers close up on that.

http://a.img-dpreview.com/gallery/canoneos50d_preview_samples/originals/img_0082.jpg
Different 800 ISO one.

 

[Gene Moore]

http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/canoneos50d_preview_samples/
They have samples up finally.

Hummm, maybe I'm more easily excited than you, but I thought the absence of noise was impressive. For example, the 200 ISO shots look like ISO 100 from my camera. Both the 400 and 800 ISO images looked very clean. As for the 1600, not my kind of shot (fruit on a black background) to tell much. In fact, if I wanted to hide noise that's the kind of scene I would choose. For now I will reserve judgment until I see a sky shot, that's generally the worst place for noise, especially for chasers.

Was a little surprised at the performance of the EF 100 2.8 micro they used, only the pink rose really came out nice, the other shots were pretty marginal for a lens with such a high rep. Not much in the set was razor sharp.

As for the number of MB's on a small sensor. It that really an issue, the people that bash the small sensor don't seem to have a convincing argument. I can't imagine Canon putting so much money, research and effort into a small sensor if it were going to die in a few years. In fact there are migrating most of the high end features into the lower price cameras.

 

[Dick McGowan]

The Canon Rebel XSi has impressed me in terms of noise under certain situations...when using the High ISO noise reducer. I wish I would have known that it was standard to be off when out of the box for the Quinter #1 tornado I shot at 800 ISO on May 23rd.

Here is a shot with the XSi at 800 ISO, f/2.8, 15 seconds:

And one at 1600 ISO, f 2.8/ 8 seconds:

Night and day versus my old XT in terms of noise. It's not perfect, it seems longer than the 10 seconds at 1600 ISO in that situation, the noise gets considerably worse. The reds/pinks are the ones that seem to be the most noticeable. I never take that High ISO function off...it slows down your shutter speed for bursts, but I don't shoot sports.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Hummm, maybe I'm more easily excited than you, but I thought the absence of noise was impressive.

I thought they were similar to my XT, which would equate to impressive with twice the pixels on the same size sensor. 800 and 1600 sure are shootable, I only hoped more so.

I'll be biased now, since I went and bought the XSi since my last post, lol. The extra money just didn't make much sense to me if the noise was going to end up so similar anyway(XSi vs 50D). Pretty sure the 50D borrowed the technology from the XSi, just with a couple more mega pixels.