Monday, August 20, 2007

Canon Dropped The Bombs

Just when Nikonians are wetting their pants in their pent up anticipation of the soon to be (rumored) released next flagship DSLR(s), Canon dropped two much anticipated prosumer and professional DSLR models, namely the Canon EOS 40D and EOS 1 Ds Mark III today. The latter has a resolution of 21.1 million pixels that rivals medium format quality. The first leak of these two cameras from a respectable source was from Amazon on Sunday morning but the leak was as quickly removed as it first appeared. Finally, on Monday, today, from another Amazon's site dpreview.com the 40D and 1Ds Mark III are previewed.

Look like Nikon has some serious catching up to do. How Nikon is going to top Canon or at least match Canon remains to be seen the end of this week. Okay, I subscribe to the notion that the photographer is the one that makes the pictures, but all things being equal, a better tool or a wider choice of tools is a good thing. I shoot Nikon and I would like to see Nikon come up with some Earth shaking and ground breaking cameras, maybe not just in the mega pixel department but in something else as well.

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, previewed from dpreview.com
Canon EOS 40D, previewed from dpreview.com.

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