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| Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
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New (39) Used (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  227 reviews
Sales Rank: 109
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Includes Software: Yes
Display Size: 3
Maximum Resolution: 10
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 14 x 10
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 40D Body
Model: 40D Body
UPC: 013803086553
EAN: 0013803086553
ASIN: B000V5P90K
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great camera . June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned it for about nine months. I won't go into a detailed writeup since pleanty of other people have already done so. Here is a quick summary of the strong points and weak points of this camera.
Strengths:
* 6 FPS - Fast enough for photojournalism and sports on a budget.
* Build qulity and ergonomics much improved from 20d, has a more solid feel, and finger grip makes a big difference
* Good color rendition.
* Good sharpness and detail
* Good high ISO noise. Not the same as the Mark III, but very good at this price. I use 640 and 800 routinely, and the qulity is beyond what's required for the publications I shoot for, even without any noice reduction software either in camera or in post processing.
* Live view. Despite the akward procedure for focusing, having any form of live view helps a lot when taking a very high or very low angle.
* Highlight tone priority. It helps a little, a good extra.
Weaknesses:
* 'Weather sealing'. The foam strip on the card door is a joke, it should have had d200 level protection. Inexcusible, shame on Canon. I would have paid more for a big improvement here.
* Screen. It's big, but not very accurate. Often isn't sharp enough for me to tell if I got the shot in focus or not. Color, brighness, contrast can look off too. Sometime shots look like garbage on the scree, but are fine in photoshop.
* Plastic battery door hinge. They made the rest of the camera sturdier, yet cheaped out on this part to save $0.10. WTF?
* Autofocus at 5.6 can be frustrating. When trying to get a bird through branches, it often misses even when the center dot is right on the bird.
Overall, it takes great images. There's always things they could have done better, but remember, you are only paying $1,100 for it so you can't expect the world. The lack of sealing is my only major beef.
 The best camera money can buy June 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an amazing camera and worth every penny of it's price. I have a Rebel XTi as my second body and can say that 40D feels much more mature, it feels more like a "real" camera. XTi is somehow fragile, 40D is really robust. The ergonomics are really great and the camera feels just perfect in my hands.
Picture quality is very good. It is at it's best in RAW format. Colors can be little washed out when shooting JPEG (nothing that can't be fixed in Photoshop). A couple of real world advantages of this camera compared to the cheaper alternatives are, besides it's fantastic build quality and robustness, camera's high ISO performance, autofocus speed, fast continous shooting and larger viewfinder. ISO 1600 images are perfectly usable for A4 prints. I find the top LCD very usable and almost never use the back LCD.
A great camera and highly recommended.
great camera! June 30, 2008
Great DSLR with tons of features and most importantly, the pictures are amazing. I bought the kit and also got the 24-105mm L lens and couldn't be happier.
Almost pleased June 30, 2008
Everything is good... just that battery charger... it is not suitable with the Europe standarts :(
Outstanding performance June 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is my second DSLR purchase. I own the original Digital Rebel camera and its been fine, although with sluggish performance (burst frame rate and sometimes slow autofocusing). I struggled with the decision between the new, less expensive EOS Rebel Xsi, or the EOS 40D. The Xsi has higher resolution but resolution wasn't the major purchasing factor. I take a lot of sport pictures for hockey, baseball, lacrosse, etc. and it was more important to shoot with 6+ frames per second speeds. The 40D was more expensive but with the $[...] for previous digital rebel owners, it was getting closer to the Xsi price. I decided to go with the 40D and I've been delighted ever since. The performance is excellent as well as the picture quality. The magnesium-alloy, sealed body has proven to be the hidden gem. I've been snapping pictures at kids baseball games this summer and with the dirt/dust, I have piece of mind knowing the camera is sealed. This is a great camera and worth the slightly higher cost than the digital rebel class products. And the kit lens (28-135mm IS) that comes with the 40D is a significant upgrade from the original 18-55mm that came with the digital rebel. The $400 street price 28-135mm IS lens was only $[...] when you buy it as a kit with the EOS 40D camera.
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