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Amazon really messed up on this one. The specifications, launch date, and price of the Canon 40D DSLR were leaked onto the Amazon website. The launch date is September 20, 2007, and will cost $1,299. The most important features of the 40D are the 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor, DIGIC III Image Processor, a large 3.0 inch LCD screen, 6.5fps continuous shooting speed, and a 75JPEG/17 RAW buffer. Engadget caught the Amazon page before Amazon pulled it down; you can view it here.

Full Specifications:
“• 10.1-megapixel CMOS sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints

• Large 3.0-inch LCD display with enhanced Live View and broadened color gamut

• 6.5 frame-per-second continuous shooting capability (for bursts of up to 75 Large/Fine JPEGs or 17 RAW images)

• sRAW mode; 35-zone metering system; integrated Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit

• Powered by BP-511A, BP-511, or BP-512 lithium-ion battery pack; stores images on CF cards

• Resolution: Approximately 10.1 million effective pixels (total pixels: approximately 10.5 million)

• Recording pixels: 3888 x 2592

• Sensor type: CMOS sensor, with primary R-G-B filtration

• Sensor size: 22.2 x 14.8 millimeters

• Pixel size: 5.7 microns square

• Lens focal length factor: 1.6x

• Sensor dust removal: EOS Integrated Cleaning System; active removal of dust by vibrating front low-pass filter; automatic removal of dust spots, in Canon Digital Photo Professional software (v. 3.1 or higher)

• Maximum frames per second: 6.5 frames per second (fps) at full resolution

• Maximum number of frames / burst: JPEG: 75; RAW: 17

• Shutter speeds: 30 seconds to 1/8000, plus Bulb (1/3 or 1/2-step increments)

• Flash sync speed: Up to 1/250, with EX-series Speedlites

• Anticipated shutter durability: 100,000 exposures, based on Canon test methods

• Computer interface: USB 2.0 (Hi-speed)

• Image recording storage media: CompactFlash (CF) cards (type I or II, including Microdrives)

• Card compatibility: “FAT32″ compatible–OK for cards over 2GB

• Image format options: JPEG (choice of “Fine” or “Normal” compression); RAW (Canon .CR2 RAW file format); RAW + JPEG (any JPEG file size available; JPEG file written as separate file)

• Analog to digital conversion: 14 bits per channel (16,382 separate tones from brightest to darkest, for each channel)

• Resolution options: “Large”–3888 x 2592 (approximately 10.1 million pixels); “Medium”–2816 x 1880 (approximately 5.3 million pixels); “Small”–1936 x 1288 (approximately 2.5 million pixels)

• File numbering: sRGB color space: IMG_0001.JPG or IMG_0001.CR2; Adobe 1998 RGB color space: first character is always underscore (_)

• Folders: Automatically created for image storage; new folder can be user-created with “Manual Reset” function; folders cannot be freely selected on memory card by the photographer

• Highlight tone priority: Expands tonal range of bright highlights by about one stop; ISO range limited to 200 to 1600; activated by C.Fn II-3-1

• Data verification: “Original Image Data” can be appended to each image via Custom Function IV-6-1; requires optional Canon Original Data Security Kit OSK-E3 to check authenticity

• Live View viewing options: Camera’s LCD monitor; computer monitor, via USB; computer monitor, via wireless transmitter WFT-E3A

• Manual focus: Viewed on LCD monitor, with option to magnify focus area 5x or 10x

• Autofocus: Possible–C.Fn III-6-1 active, press AF On button; mirror drops down temporarily while AF On button is pressed, allowing AF to function

• Silent mode Live View shoot: Mode 1: First shutter curtain remains open; shooting up to 6.5 fps possible; Mode 2: Quieter option; 2nd shutter curtain doesn’t close until user’s finger is taken off shutter button

• Accessory wireless transmitter: Canon WFT-E3A (optional, dedicated wireless transmitter)

• Attachment to camera: Attaches to base of camera; totally integrated with EOS 40D’s design

• Wireless transfer methods: 802.11b or 802.11g; link speed: approximately 11 megabits/second (802.11b) or 54 megabits/second (802.11g)

• Connection method: Infrastructure or Ad Hoc (802.11g functions in Ad Hoc mode)

• Maximum wireless distance: Approximately 490 feet (150 meters), if “receiver” has its own antenna (depends on environment)

• Wireless channels: 11 (in North American market)

• Ethernet (wired) transfer: Yes; Ethernet 100Base-TX (maximum distance approximately 1,000 feet); link speed: approximately 100 megabits/second

• Transfer options: 1. FTP mode (images sent to folder on host computer); 2. PTP mode (remote control of camera possible from computer); 3. HTTP mode (view camera’s files using web browser; remote firing of camera possible)

• Security options: Encryption: WEP or TKIP/AES; authentication: open system, WPA-PSK, or WPA2-PSK

• USB “host” capability: Plug compatible USB devices into WFT-E2A, for use with the EOS 40D; GPS devices (write GPS time, coordinates, and altitude info into each file’s EXIF info); external hard drive (connect compact external USB hard drive, and write files directly from camera to the hard drive as if it’s an additional memory card)

• LCD monitor: 3.0-inch (diagonal) TFT color; approximately 100% coverage; approximately 230,000 pixels on monitor; approximately 140 degrees viewing angle

• LCD monitor brightness: Adjustable in 7 levels (via Menu)

• Video-out: Yes (to standard TV monitor); NTSC or PAL, selectable on Menu

• Number of AF points: Nine, all cross-type AF points

• Center AF point: Unique hybrid cross-type AF point; world’s first high-precision AF point with both horizontal and vertical high-precision; additional standard precision, cross-type sensors for lenses from f2.8 to f5.6

• AF point selection: 1. Manual AF point selection via 9-way multi-controller on back of camera; 2. automatic AF point selection

• AF activation: Shutter button, or new AF On button at back of camera

• AF modes: One-Shot AF (for stationary subjects); AI Servo AF (for tracking moving subjects); AI Focus AF (auto selection of One-Shot or AI Servo AF)

• AF sensor: Entirely new Canon CMOS AF sensor

• AF sensitivity range: EV -0.5 to 18 (at 73 degrees F / 23 degrees C, ISO 100)

• Shutter speeds: 30 seconds to 1/8000 second, plus Bulb (1/3 or 1/2-step increments); x-sync at 1/250

• ISO range: 100 to 1600, in 1/3-step or full-stop increments; ISO can be expanded to 3200 via C.Fn I-3-1

• Auto ISO: Can be set in any exposure mode, including P, Tv, Av, and M; ISO usually based at 400; typical auto range is 100 to 800, depending on conditions; manual exposure mode: auto ISO fixed at 400

• Exposure modes: Manual, Aperture-priority (Av), Shutter-priority (Tv), Program AE

• Full-auto modes: Green Zone, Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Action, Night Portrait, Flash Off

• Metering: 35-zone metering sensor; Evaluative metering (linked to all AF points); Center-weighted metering; Partial metering; Spot metering at center of picture (approximately 3.5% of picture area)

• Metering range: EV 0 to 20 (all patterns, at normal temperatures)

• Exposure compensation: Possible in P, Tv, Av, and A-DEP exposure modes; +/- up to two stops, in 1/2 or 1/3-stop increments (via Quick Control Dial)

• Autoexposure bracketing: Possible in P, Tv, Av, M, and A-DEP exposure modes; +/- up to two stops, in 1/2 or 1/3-stop increments

• Compatible flashes: All Canon EX-series Speedlites, including new Speedlite 580EX II

• Camera menu sets flash: Yes (580EX II only, as of August 2007)

• E-TTL II flash metering: Flash metering not linked to active AF point; distance from compatible EF lenses now used; entire metering area can be averaged using Custom Function 14-1

• Modeling flash: 1-second burst of flash possible at 70Hz when depth-of-field preview button is pressed (580EX/EX II, 550EX, 420EX, MR-14EX, MT-24EX, and Speedlite transmitter only)

• Wireless E-TTL: Fully compatible, including ratio setting over six-stop range

• Flash exposure compensation: Up to +/- 2 stops can be set on camera body (can also be set on compatible Speedlites)

• Built-in flash: Covers lenses as wide as 17mm (27mm equivalent); Guide Number 43 (feet)/13 (meters), ISO 100

• Viewfinder focus screen: New interchangeable “Ef” series focusing screens; standard screen: Ef-A–precision matte screen very similar to EOS 30D; optional Ef-D screen–precision matte with grid lines; optional Ef-S screen–Super precision matte (superior manual focusing with fast lenses, f1.8 to f2.8)

• Viewfinder display: Similar to EOS 30D; new: ISO is always displayed; new: B/W shooting mode icon; new: maximum burst available now two digits

• Dioptric adjustment: User-set from -3.0 to +1.0 (range can be extended using optional Canon dioptric Lens E, plus rubber frame Eb)

• Mirror lock-up: Possible via Custom Function III-6-1

• Eyepiece shutter: None (cover is provided on included strap)

• Color space: Standard sRGB or Adobe 1998 RGB (separate setting on Menu)

• White Balance: Auto; Pre-set (Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Flash); color temperature (set by user from 2500K to 10,000K in 100K increments); custom (shoot white object or 18% gray card, base WB on that neutral object)

• White Balance correction: Fine-tuning of overall color, in any white balance mode; amber-blue correction, in 9 steps; magenta-green correction, in 9 steps; set on graph on LCD monitor, using 9-way controller; both types of correction can be combined

• White Balance bracketing: Three separate files written with a single click of the shutter; can be varied in the amber-blue direction, or the magenta-green direction; can be adjusted up to +/- 15 mireds (equivalent to 3 steps on the 9-step adjust scale); can be combined with standard auto exposure bracketing (9 files written to CF card)

• Picture style: Extensive range of settings for user to tailor color, contrast, sharpness, etc. to their preference; same characteristics as previous EOS SLRs with Picture Style control

• Black and white recording: Set via monochrome setting within Picture Styles menu

• Computer connection: USB 2.0 Hi-speed, via small “B”-type USB connection

• Remote control: N3-type push-in terminal (same as EOS 20D, EOS-1D Mark II, etc.)

• Video-out: Single-pin mini-jack

• Direct Printing compatibility: PictBridge printing to compatible Canon and other brand printers

• Compatible images: JPEG, RAW, or sRAW, if they comply with DCF protocol

• Preview effects on camera’s LCD: Printing effects can be previewed (includes brightness, levels, contrast, color saturation, color tone, and color balance–face brightener and red-eye correction cannot be viewed)

• Connection to printer: Via USB cable included with camera

• DPOF image marking: Compatible; images can be “tagged” while reviewing on LCD monitor

• Battery: BP-511A, BP-511, or BP-512 (rechargeable lithium-ion, same as EOS 30D) (BP-511/BP-512: 1100mAh; BP-511A: 1390mAh)

• Shooting capacity: Approximately 1100 shots (at 68 degrees F / 20 degrees C); approximately 800 shots (at 32 degrees F / 0 degrees C)

• Charger unit: Canon CB-5L or CG-580 (also can be charged with compact power adapter CA-PS400)

• AC adapter: AC adapter kit ACK-E2 (optional; consists of adapter AC-E2, and “dummy battery” DR-400)

• Battery grip (optional): Battery grip BG-E2N or BG-E2

• Date/time back-up battery: CR2016 lithium battery–coin-type; user-replaceable (estimated life 5 years)

• Body exterior material: Magnesium alloy top, front, and rear covers

• Chassis material: Polycarbonate and stainless steel

• Lens mount: EF lens mount; metal; compatible lenses: all Canon lenses for EOS cameras

• Compatible with EF-S lenses: Yes

• Custom functions: 24 custom functions, in four distinct categories; 9 entirely new custom functions

• Operating temperature range: 32 degrees to 104 degrees F, at 85% or lower humidity (0 degrees to 40 degrees C)

• Dimensions (W x H x D): 5.7 x 4.2 x 2.9 inches (145.5 x 108 x 73.5 millimeters), very slightly larger than EOS 30D

• Weight (without battery or CF card): 26.1 ounces (740 grams), approximately 1.4 ounces (40 grams) heavier than EOS 30D”

Canon just announced the Powershot S5 IS: an 8 megapixel camera with 12x optical zoom, a UD lens, and inherent optical Image Stabilizer (IS). The Powershot S5 IS also has Canon’s DIGIC III image processor, 22 shooting modes, face detection technology, red-eye correction, ISO up to 1600, a 2.5 inch vari-angle LCD screen, long play VGA movies with stereo sound, and extended video recording. The Canon Powershot S5 IS is available now, from various retailers, with a price of about $500.

The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph sets a new standard. The first Digital Elph equipped with Canon’s Image Stabilizer technology, its sleek, tri-color body is loaded with high-end features that make taking great pictures more stylish and convenient than ever.

Get close, stay steady
Engineered with Canon’s sophisticated Image Stabilizer technology, the SD700 IS Digital Elph gives you the “shake-free” performance that makes your pictures sharp and clear. No matter how close you zoom in, the SD700 IS Digital Elph keeps everything stable. All you have to think about is your subject.

High performance, high style
This is a camera that could make it on looks alone. But wait until you see its performance. The 4x optical zoom brings you in for intimate close-ups. The 6.0-megapixel CCD produces images of impressive quality with resolution that lets you create big prints.

Canon innovation enhances your experience
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph features new ISO 800 and High ISO Auto settings that reduce the effects of camera shake and sharpen subjects in low-light situations, giving you greater flexibility for shooting.

Advanced imaging technology improves every photo

DIGIC II Image Processor
Canon’s DIGIC II Image Processor is designed to improve processing speed and image quality, so DIGIC II provides markedly faster startup, autofocus, and playback, plus it assures that every image is more colorfully vibrant.

iSAPS Technology
iSAPS Technology is an entirely original scene-recognition technology developed for digital cameras by Canon. Using an internal database of thousands of different photos, iSAPS works with the fast DIGIC II Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.

Shoot and view wide images
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph includes a 16:9 widescreen resolution option, producing images and film clips that are perfect for your widescreen TV or computer monitor.

Superior movie quality
Fast Frame Rate Movie Mode allows you to record extremely smooth, full-motion movie clips for up to one minute in QVGA at 60 frames per second (fps) (320 x 240 pixels). With a highly flexible movie mode, you can create the movie that’s perfect for any application. Select from VGA (640 x 480 pixels) and QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) with frame rates of 30 fps and 15 fps for recording up to one hour or 1 GB. Plus, Compact Movie Mode (QQVGA; 160 x 120 pixels) records at 15 fps for up to 3 minutes.

Shooting Modes
Advanced presets for the best possible photos under certain conditions

CNET reviewed the Canon Powershot SD 700 IS and gave it a 7.8/10, “Compared to its siblings in Canon’s SD line of compact point-and-shoot cameras, the top-end SD700 IS packs more features into its small frame than higher resolution. It shares the same 6-megapixel sensor as its peers, the PowerShot SD600 and SD630 but has a longer zoom lens and image stabilization to curb blurry photos.The Canon PowerShot SD700 IS is compact, though slightly larger than the other two models. Still, it’s the right size to slip into a jacket or a loose pants pocket. At 6.8 ounces, it’s a bit heavy for its small size, giving it a nice, solid feel.Image quality, much like performance, rates as excellent. The SD700 IS reproduces color very well, and images are clean with few processing flaws. Photos remain consistent and noise-free at low-to-moderate ISO speeds and are acceptable even at ISO 400. At ISO 800, we noticed some distinct noise in our photos, but it was a clean, grainlike noise that left the images very usable. Furthermore, lens sharpness remains relatively consistent around the edges, unlike with some similar cameras. This helps keep fringing to a minimum. The Canon PowerShot SD700 IS is a very strong, compact digital camera that produces great pictures. Its price is a bit high compared to that of its little brothers, the SD600 and SD630, but its great image stabilization and subsequent blur-free photos are worth the extra few quid.”

Megapixel writes and reports, “The big news in the super compact Canon camera range is the addition of an optical stabilizer on the new PowerShot SD700 IS (called IXUS 800 in Europe), the first in that series to offer such a system. Just as remarkable is the fact that the SD700 retains the dimensions of its predecessor, the SD550, but has the addition of 4X optical zoom, a 6-megapixel resolution, and a 2.5-inch monitor. The PowerShot SD700 IS continues the design formula that has proven successful with previous SD cameras. Although the body of the camera is very compact, external controls are positioned in a logical way, making them easily memorized.”

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Canon PowerShot SD700 Review

Posted in Cameras, Canon by Danielle on June 29th, 2006.

Canon’s PowerShot SD 700 is an amazing piece of technology, with 6.0 megapixels, 4x optical zoom, and a 2.5 inch LCD. Yet, surprisingly, it only weighs 5.8 ounces!

As Imaging Resource writes, “The Canon SD700 IS sits at the top of Canon’s popular “SD” series of digital cameras. Like other SD models, it’s slim and trim, with a small, rugged metal case with slightly rounded corners and a retracting lens to make it highly pocketable. What’s really unique about the Canon SD700 IS is that it incorporates Canon’s excellent Image Stabilization (”IS”) technology that drastically reduces the effects of camera shake at slow shutter speeds or long zoom settings. This means you can shoot in poor light without having to put the camera on a tripod to avoid the camera shake. (IS typically lets you take crisp shots under light conditions four times darker than you could manage without it.) Even without its unique IS capability, the Canon SD700 IS is a feature-packed little camera, and offers a large, bright 2.5″ LCD display that’s great both for framing your shots and showing them to friends afterwards. Its 6-megapixel sensor has plenty of resolution to make crisp enlargements, even with significant cropping of its images.

Bottom line, the Canon PowerShot SD700 would be a great choice for users looking for a compact, rugged, and stylish model for a ” take-anywhere” digital camera,with Canon’s powerful image stabilization technology as an added bonus for better photos in dim lighting.”

The Product Description
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph sets a new standard. The first Digital Elph equipped with Canon’s Image Stabilizer technology, its sleek, tri-color body is loaded with high-end features that make taking great pictures more stylish and convenient than ever.

Get close, stay steady
Engineered with Canon’s sophisticated Image Stabilizer technology, the SD700 IS Digital Elph gives you the “shake-free” performance that makes your pictures sharp and clear. No matter how close you zoom in, the SD700 IS Digital Elph keeps everything stable. All you have to think about is your subject.

High performance, high style
This is a camera that could make it on looks alone. But wait until you see its performance. The 4x optical zoom brings you in for intimate close-ups. The 6.0-megapixel CCD produces images of impressive quality with resolution that lets you create big prints.

Canon innovation enhances your experience
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph features new ISO 800 and High ISO Auto settings that reduce the effects of camera shake and sharpen subjects in low-light situations, giving you greater flexibility for shooting.

Advanced imaging technology improves every photo

DIGIC II Image Processor
Canon’s DIGIC II Image Processor is designed to improve processing speed and image quality, so DIGIC II provides markedly faster startup, autofocus, and playback, plus it assures that every image is more colorfully vibrant.

iSAPS Technology
iSAPS Technology is an entirely original scene-recognition technology developed for digital cameras by Canon. Using an internal database of thousands of different photos, iSAPS works with the fast DIGIC II Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance.

Shoot and view wide images
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital Elph includes a 16:9 widescreen resolution option, producing images and film clips that are perfect for your widescreen TV or computer monitor.

Superior movie quality
Fast Frame Rate Movie Mode allows you to record extremely smooth, full-motion movie clips for up to one minute in QVGA at 60 frames per second (fps) (320 x 240 pixels). With a highly flexible movie mode, you can create the movie that’s perfect for any application. Select from VGA (640 x 480 pixels) and QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) with frame rates of 30 fps and 15 fps for recording up to one hour or 1 GB. Plus, Compact Movie Mode (QQVGA; 160 x 120 pixels) records at 15 fps for up to 3 minutes.

Shooting Modes
Advanced presets for the best possible photos under certain conditions

Auto: The camera chooses all the settings so you can concentrate on your subject.

Manual: The ultimate in creative control, you set ISO speed, exposure compensation and white balance.

Portrait: The camera sets a large aperture, focusing the subject and artistically blurring the background to make your subject “pop.”

Foliage: Capture brilliant shots of autumn foliage, greenery and blossoms.

Snow: Shoot clear snow scenes without darkened subjects or an unatural bluish tint.

Beach: Get clear shots of people at a sunny beach without darkened faces.

Fireworks: Grab brilliant images of skyrocketing fireworks.

Underwater: Capture underwater images with reduced backscatter effect. (Note: Optional Waterproof Case WP-DC4 required for shooting any underwater images)

Indoor: Reduce blur and improve color accuracy when shooting handheld indoors.

Kids and Pets: Reduced focusing time freezes fast-moving subjects, so you won’t miss those special shots.

Night Snapshot: Get natural-looking pictures with brighter backgrounds and subjects lit by flash.

Color Accent: Choose to retain a single color in your image while other colors turn monochrome.

Color Swap: Select a color and replace it with a color you specify for special effects.

Digital Macro: Shoot larger-than-life close-ups with one-button simplicity.

Stitch Assist: Build awe-inspiring panoramas by neatly aligning sequential images.

My Colors
     Vivid: Yield vibrant shots with dramatic high-contrast.
     Vivid Blue: Emphasize the sea, sky, and other blue areas.
     Vivid Green: Add vivid dimension to greens for extraordinary nature shots.
     Vivid Red: Charge up red objects in your images for extra impact.

Neutral: Produce images of subtle, elegant tonality.

Sepia: Recreate the look of vintage photographs.

Black and White: Deliver enhanced clarity–especially useful when shooting text.

Positive Film: Combine “Vivid Blue,” “Vivid Green,” and “Vivid Red” to achieve a positive film effect.

Lighter Skin Tone: Make your subjects’ skin tones lighter.

Darker Skin Tone: Darken skin tones a shade.

Custom Color: Finely adjust brightness and vividness, and set your preferred balance of blue, green, red, and skin colors.

CNET gave the Canon PowerShot SD700 a 7.8/10:

“The good: Great performance and pictures; effective image stabilization; attractive, comfortable design.

The bad: No aperture-priority or shutter-priority modes; awkward optical viewfinder and power button.

The bottom line: The Canon PowerShot SD700 IS has practically everything you could want in a compact camera, though you might think the price tag a bit steep. “

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