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| Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $1,299.00
Buy New: $900.00
You Save: $399.00 (31%)
New (30) Used (4)
Avg. Customer Rating:  319 reviews
Sales Rank: 100
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Includes Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 4.8
Display Size: 3
Maximum Focal Length: 135
Minimum Focal Length: 28
Maximum Resolution: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.6 x 7
MPN: 40D Kit
Model: 40D Kit
UPC: 138030866607
EAN: 0013803086607
ASIN: B000V5QV4S
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Exceptional New dSLR November 11, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an exceptional new dSLR from Canon. I moved from a Nikon D200 to Canon when I was dissatisfied with some of the lens selections for Nikon. I couldn't have been happier with this move.
The features are wonderful - easy to use features with a flick of button and the turn of the master dial. The sensor cleaner is an added bonus.
Live View is new and innovative - although it only works with manual focus. It isn't a feature that is going to help the day to day hand-held shooter, but for those occasional tripod shots where you want to see your composition or adjust your composition before shooting, its innovative and helpful.
The weight and "feel" of the camera are just about perfect -- things have good weather sealing, the heft of the camera feels good in your hand, and it feels substantial. Much better than the plastic-feeling Rebel series.
A great camera for advanced amateurs as well as professionals who want a light, fully-featured dSLR. Beginners can shoot out of the box, but will be overwhelmed by all of the features.
One of the things that I would always use to recommend an advanced Canon over the Nikon's is their inclusion of the creative zone and basic zone features even on their advanced cameras. For those quick sports, landscape, or nightshot photos, its a breeze to flick the dial and shoot.
Highly recommended. Note that you might not like any of the kit lenses. The 28-135 doesn't have enough focal length, and the standard 18-55 doesn't have sufficient low-light capability. I recommend skipping the kit lenses and ordering a faster basic lens, or a more inclusive longer focal length zoom lens.
Overall, a great camera.
Great Upgrade November 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had a 10D for quite awhile now and it was becoming a bit long in the tooth.
I had thought of upgrading to the 20D or 30D when they came out. Though each of those were nice upgrades I did not feel any of them were compelling enough to pull the trigger.
When the rumblings on what was going to be included in the 40D started happening, I waited to see what would happen and there were enough new features to justify the upgrade.
The ones that immediately caught my eye were
1.) Sensor cleaning
2.) Live View
3.) A big jump in megapixels from my 10D
4.) Quicker focus
In other words these were the main "wish" list for me.
I could not be more pleased with the camera and the results.
Of course manual sensor cleaning is always needed despite built in sensor cleaning, but having the sensor cleaning and mapping features seem to be working so far and if it means the sesnor does not have to be cleaned as often, it is a plus.
Though I still shoot through the view finder the majority of the time the Live View is a nice feature and works well and I am glad Canon finally has it in their dSLR.
People sometimes get too caught up in megapixels, but the jump between the 10D and the 40D is a substantial one. Going from 8 megapixels (if you have a 20D or 30D) may not be that noticable, but from 6 megapixels to 10 is noticiable for cropping.
The Canon 40D is also quick to focus and is good in low light. As others have noted there are many other upgrades and features which also contribute to making the 40D worthwhile.
Bottom line is you have any of the D series and like them, you will like this camera. Well worth the move from a 10D and probably the 20D. The 30D is a bit closer call I would guess.
Another great Canon camera November 10, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great camera! Exceeded my expectations by a mile. A pro product all the way.
Should you upgrade? Heck yah! November 10, 2007
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
After less consideration than I probably should have given such a big purchase, I decided to upgrade from my Canon 20D to the Canon 40D shortly after it was announced. Let me start out by saying that I haven't been disappointed by my rash decision; Canon has improved so many aspects of the camera since the 20D (two models ago) that it's definitely worth upgrading if you're using a 20D or earlier. For those of you with 30D's, that might be a harder decision as fewer things have changed.
Without trying to be too wordy, let me list a few of my favorite new or improved features over the 20D (in no particular order).
- Huge, beautiful LCD screen makes it much easier to see and show others your photos.
- Playback mode now lets you see the RGB histogram as well as the traditional luminance one.
- Hitting the info button twice shows an enlarged and easier to read/understand view on the main LCD of the data normally shown on the top LCD. For example, when switching metering modes, it lists the name (spot, center weighted, etc.) in addition to showing the symbol.
- Much improved menu system which is better organized and easier to navigate.
- Custom menu which you can populate with those items you use the most (I *love* this feature).
- Three custom modes on the mode dial which you can pre-set as you desire.
- Much hyped live view mode which lets you compose photos with the LCD screen is actually pretty useful for macro work, or any shot which you want to focus manually. You can zoom up to 10x to focus precisely on a certain region.
- Can you say six and a half frames per second! Wow!
- ISO is now displayed in the viewfinder which makes it easier to see when you've left it on 1600 by accident.
- A new auto ISO mode is included which attempts to choose an ISO fast enough so you can handhold the camera. One less thing to worry about when shooting in situations where you don't have time to mess with the ISO setting.
- Beautiful grain on the images - I like the way the grain (noise) looks better than the 20D.
- Ultrasonic dust shake off system for reducing sensor dust. I still have managed to get a few flecks of dust which won't come off, but after taking 5000 photos with many lens changes in the wild, it's not nearly as bad of a problem as on the 20D.
- Improved autofocus system is more accurate than before.
- 14 bit RAW files! This gives you many more gradations to work with than 12 bit (16,384 per channel instead of 4,096).
I'm sure there are many other things I've forgotten. I've been using the camera now for over a month, taken 5000 shots, and love it!
There are still a few things missing about this camera which I wish Canon had addressed.
- Still can't use infrared shutter releases with this model. Canon lets you use these with the consumer oriented digital rebels, so why not on the 20, 30, and 40D models? Go figure.
- Optional wireless file transmitter / GPS connection, but why not just build wireless into the camera?
Go upgrade before your old camera is worthless! You can still sell the old one now before too many people get the new ones.
Amazing camera November 9, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I upgraded to the 40D from the Digital Rebel XT (350D). This is one amazing camera. I do most of my shooting in low light areas, and I was not satisfied with the XT's performance, even with a flash.
But the 40D is another story altogether. The photos it produces are great even in low light situations. They're vibrant with color and with almost no noise upto ISO 800.
Highly recommended!
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