Canon shows off Spring Collection
Seems to be the day for camera announcements
This morning in London, Canon showed off its Spring collection for 2008, comprising of 16 new products in total, including four new compact cameras and a new DLSR.
The new additions to Canon's cluster of compacts are the Digital IXUS 80 IS, the PowerShot A590 IS, the PowerShot A580 and the PowersShot A470.
Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS
The Digital IXUS 80 IS offers 8 megapixels, 3x zoom with optical image stabilizer, 2.5in PureColor LCD and comes in a choice of four colours: classic silver, candy pink, chocolate and caramel.
The Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS will be available from March priced at £219.00 (€319.00).
Canon PowerShot A590
The PowerShot A590 IS and PowerShot A580 also offer 8.0 megapixels, have a 4x zoom, a new "Easy mode" and full manual control, range of optional lens accessories and a 2.5in LCD and optical viewfinder.
Canon PowerShot A580
The A590 comes with the added benefit of an optical image stabilizer.
Canon PowerShot A470
Finally the PowerShot A470 will offer 7.1 megapixels, a 3.4x zoom, 2.5in LCD and come in red, blue, green and silver.
All the compact models will offer the usual array of red-eye reduction capabilities as well as face detection and white balance features
The PowerShot A590 IS, PowerShot A580 and PowerShot A470 will be available from March, priced as follows: PowerShot A590 IS £159.00 (€229.00), PowerShot A580 £139.00 (€199.00) and the PowerShot A470 £109.00 (€159.00).
Canon EOS 450D DSLR
The last camera showcased on the Canon catwalk this morning was the EOS 450D DSLR, replacing the now dated 400D. The new model features a 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, a 3in LCD that's 50 per cent brighter than on the 400D and a new 9-point AF system.
It also sports 3.5 frames per second continual shooting mode and SD card memory expansion - CompactFlash has finally been ditched.
The EOS 450D body only is priced at £599.99 (€899.99), the inclusion of a 18-55mm kit will cost £679.99 (€999.99). Both will be available from March.
COMMENTS
Re: SD & Re: CF vs. SD
Re: SD
Not an issue to Germain, since he was under the mistaken impression that SD cards couldn't match the size of the current CF cards (16-32 Gb). Anyway, by the time the 128 Gb limit is reached there'll be another standard out, with a larger limit. When that happens we can look forward to all the people with SD cards moaning about manufacturers that no longer build SD slots into their devices!
Re: CF vs. SD
Upgrading from a 350D to a 450D seems a bit pointless - they're just different generations of Canon's entry level D-SLR. Hence my assumption that you'd be spending a little more cash i.e. circa £1000. Also, your calculations ignore the fact that SD cards come in sizes larger than 2 Gb, and that the larger ones have a lower per Gb cost.
outdated 400D?
It seems like no time at all since I bought my 350D which was replaced very soon after by the 400D. Now the 400D is "outdated". Give me my trusty G3 any day...
Re: SD
Anonymous Coward: "The theoretical limit of SDHC is 128 Gb, so max size is not an issue. 32 Gb SDHC cards are going to be out very soon"
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If it's already at 32GB, then how is a limit of 128Gb (a mere 4 times the current offering) not an issue?
As the folklore tale goes .... "640k should be enough for anyone"
CF vs SD
At the end of the article we can read “The EOS 450D body only is priced at £599.99 (€899.99), the inclusion of a 18-55mm kit will cost £679.99 (€999.99).”
So it would be £599.99 instead of £1000 to replace the EOS 350D by a EOS 450D.
Let me do a little calculation:
To replace 2 CF of 8 GB and 2 CF of 4 GB I will need 12 SD of 2 GB at £15 it is £180.
That is 30% of the price of the EOS 450D, I don’t call it cheap…
Let do other calculation: A JPG file is around 3 MB, if you save it in RAW as well as JPG it is around 7 MB (3MB for the JPG + 4MB for the RAW). Now, I use the “Exposure bracketing” so each time I push the trigger, 3 pictures are taken. That is 21 MB for each photos set.
8 GB / 21 MB = 380 Photos.
2 GG / 21 MG = 95 Photos.
Yes, they are smaller but if you need 12 SD instead of 4 CF you don’t gain anything.
So just one SD of 2 GB is cheap, but if you want to use the RAW and the bracketing it is not enough. And I already have the CF, I don’t want to throw them away.
