It has been a while since Canon announces something that excited me. Well, at least not after Canon EOS 5D. Other manufacturers have caught up with Canon's superior image quality, noticeably Pentax, came from the dead, and even as a proud owner of several Canon cameras, I couldn't resist the new K10D. Nikon has also improved themselves over the last couple of years.
A few months back, Canon announced the new Canon EOS 1D MK III that stunned the world with its first 10fps high speed machine and a much more compact and lighter body that was on top of every sport journalist's list.
Canon's pro-sumer DSLR, namely EOS 30D has been lagging behind others since the beginning of last year, even it's entry level EOS 400D does a lightly better job in jpeg images with its superior Digi III processor. It's sadly, a digital age now, a camera body can easily go out of date after a couple of year after technological advances. It could be a class leader for once and then back to bottom after a two years. This has been the case with EOS 30D.
Now, Canon finally answers back with the announcement of EOS 40D, a much improved camera in virtually every respect. Together with the announcement is the latest 1 series - EOS 1Ds MK III monster, which feature a huge 21M pixels CMOS and dual digi III processors!!!!
Is Canon fighting back? Well, I guess, they have to do something to gain their market share back after they lose it to Nikon in Japan this year.
Am I excited about this announcement? Yes and no, Nikon also announcement their forthcoming new DSLRs to counter attack Canon's new weapons - D300 and D3. As a Canon user, I still think Canon could have done better to make all their camera weatherproof.
Great Canon but watch the corners and keep checking the back mirror before everyone catches up!

there are news about it every day, a very big stir. too many news that I have no idea what's so exciting about the camera itself...too many to browse thru...~.~

I used one 400D. It's a verry good camera and easy to use. I like the image capture with that.

wating for .....