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Canon's new EOS 50D is the incremental upgrade from their 40D which debuted last year. Renowned for being solid, dependable cameras with a wide variety of controls and access to a considerable back catalog of lenses, we put the Canon through a considerable variety of tests. On average, it scored well but not amazingly. Full details follow.
The 50D is currently available for $1399 (body only).
Picture Quality / Size Options(10.50) The Canon EOS-50D can record images in a number of sizes:
JPEG (high or low quality)
Large (4752 x 3168), Medium (3546 x 2304), Small (2352 x 1568)
RAW
RAW (4752 x 3168), sRAW1 (3267 x 2178), sRAW2 (2736 x 1584)
RAW+JPEG
Available in any combination of RAW and JPEG image sizes
Picture Effects Mode(2.00) The picture effects modes are utterly minimal, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. While shooting, you can change Picture Style to standard, portrait, landscape, neutral, faithful, monochrome, and user 1-3. In the custom modes, if you shoot in monochrome, filter and toning effects can be added to provide additional casts. The filter effects are yellow, orange, red and green, and the toning effects are sepia, blue, purple and green.
The only editing features included are the abilities to rotate and delete your files.