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Sorry folks, I’m really late in getting my shopping list to you. I know you only have 2 more days of shopping till my birthday, so honestly I won’t mind if you’re a week late. No big deal. So here it is, many items still remain from last year:
Still no takers on this:

Grand Prix GXP
Is that one bad? That must be why I haven’t got it, ok we can go with one of these:

Dodge Charger, all wheel drive, blue SRT8 with a Hemi please.
Ok we’ll drop the costs a little bit for those with a tight budget. I’ll even save you shipping on the next items, just add them all to your cart at www.bhphotovideo.com:

70-200 2.8L IS Canon Lens, you’ll save $125 on this lens! It’s got an instant rebate on it now.

24-70 2.8L Canon Lens

10-22mm Canon Lens
Ok, that is still over your budget, we’ll go for one of these, lets join the crowd, who wouldn’t want this:

160GB Apple iPod Black
So those all bust your budget? This is one is for you, hey get 2 friends to go with you on it and you’ll have the 3 I need! C’mon we’re talking pennies here!

Digital8 tape case, Yes, I still need 3 of these.
www.tapeandmedia.com
So you can’t afford anything? Well ya know I have just thing below, those boxes before the submit button, type something and hit POST. Thanks.

Let’s start by saying this camera is amazing, yes they did hype it up, but Canon did a pretty good job on this camera. I’m speaking from two days with this camera, I got mine 9/4/07 (maybe 5 hours of playing with it though). I will be testing this further to see how well the exposure works, auto focus and live view.
The live view is neat, but not really useful other than for still objects, manual focus is slow and hard to get right, even with the 5x or 10x zoom features.
A great improvement is how loud the camera is. I also have a 20D and that camera is very loud, same with the 30D, but even at 6.5 frames per second (I’d eventually verify this fps myself) it is very quiet, and not ‘motorized’ sounding like the Rebel XTi is.
The first thing I noticed is just how enormous the screen is, 3 inches, especially because I’m used to the nice 1.8” on the 20D.
I would really like to do a full test, being that we’ve got the 20D, 30D and now 40D. Side by side, same objects to test color, noise at different ISO, etc.
20D vs. 30D vs. 40D
Is the 40D that much better? I think so.
First photo with the camera:

They better not disappoint, I’ve been waiting a year and a half for this to come out. C’mon Canon, make the EOS 40D something worth while. It’s been 18 months since the 30D came out. At least give me the EOS Integrated Cleaning System featuring a Self Cleaning Sensor Unit. Or, how about the magnesium shutter box, like the Mark III has. Say 1.3x conversion with a 10mp sensor? Maybe faster than 5 fps, 3 inch screen? Oh, and make it less than $1500 please.

If I believe the rumors across the internet the 40D will be announced in 3 long days. Hit the stores September 2, that is if I believe Best Buy (Leaked internal information from Best Buy… big oops on Best Buy’s part!).

Or maybe I should skip the 40D and go with the EOS-1 Mark III, it is an amazing camera, just got to play with one a couple days ago.

I mean sheesh, it is only $4500, body only.