Product Description

A 6.3 Megapixel Canon CMOS sensor delivers superbly detailed images. 7-point high-speed AF allows precise focusing over a wide area. A powerful DIGIC (DIGital Imaging Core) processor optimises colour rendition. High speed processing means a continuous burst of 9 shots at 3 frames per second is possible. It also extends the camera's battery life. The EOS 10D can write RAW and JPEG files simultaneously, while there's a choice of 6 JPEG resolution settings. For enhanced exposure stability, the EOS 10D has a new evaluative metering system for both daylight and flash. As well as sRGB, the EOS 10D features Adobe RGB. This improves colour rendition by capturing colours across an extremely wide spectrum. An ISO speed range from 100 - 1600 (3200 Extended HI accessible via the ISO expansion menu) offers extensive shooting flexibility whatever the lighting conditions. 9 white balance modes are available - Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Flourescent, Flash, Custom and Colour Temperature. In Colour Temperature mode, users manually select the warmth they require from the Kelvin scale (2800K to 10000K in 100K increments). With White Balance Bracketing, the EOS 10D automatically captures three bracketed shots (normal, reddish and bluish) with one release of the shutter. An Intelligent Orientation Sensor detects whether the camera is being held horizontally or vertically when shooting. This gives mor e accurate exposures. It also means easy viewing and edit

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25672 in Camera & Photo
• Size: SLR Size
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 10D
• Dimensions: 4.20" h x 5.90" w x 2.95" l, 1.70 pounds
• Display size: 1.8

Features

• 6.3-megapixel CMOS image sensor for images up to 3072 x 2048 pixels
• Magnesium body; can save images simultaneously in both RAW and JPEG formats
• 3 frames per second (fps) burst rate up to 9; Adobe RGB color space; 7-area AF sensor
• Compatible with CompactFlash Type I and II cards; no card included
• Powered by rechargeable lithium-ion battery (BP-511); connects to PCs and Macs via USB 1.1

Amazon.com Product Description
Canon's EOS-10D 6.3-megapixel digital SLR builds on the strengths of the award-winning EOS-D60 and offers a range of improvements to both the camera's design and its feature set. It offers a seven-point wide-area autofocus system, fast 3-frames-per-second burst rate, and an ergonomic, super-tough magnesium alloy body shell.

The 6.3-million effective pixel CMOS sensor--providing up to 3,072 x 2,048 pixels--is supported by Canon's unique high-power DIGital Imaging Core (DIGIC) processor. The speed at which the DIGIC processor works has allowed Canon to extend the number of full resolution images in burst sequences to nine, at a rate of 3 frames per second. As well as improved speed, DIGIC also helps produce more accurate color rendition while reducing image noise.

The metering system, using the newest metering algorithm available and a 35-zone evaluative metering system linked to all seven focus points, offers improved exposure consistency and stability. A range covering ISO 100 to 1,600 offers high-quality images across a very broad spectrum of shooting conditions. Photographers working in particularly poor light may also take advantage of an option to extend this range to ISO 3,200.

The EOS-10D is the first digital SLR camera to feature direct printing. Linking via a USB cable, you can make prints immediately from any of Canon's range of compatible bubble jet or CP printers--including the S830D, S530D, and CP-100--without the need to connect to a computer. Controls within the camera's own menu system allow you to choose print quantity, size, and image cropping. When using Canon's card photo printer CP-100, with the optional battery pack, prints can be made in the field away from a power supply.

Other features include:

• Automatic selection of FAT16 or FAT32 file systems, to support large-capacity CompactFlash Type I or II memory cards of over 2 GB storage size (such as Microdrives).
• 1.8-inch TFT (transreflective) LCD monitor with five brightness levels and 10x zoom.
• Super Intelligent Orientation Sensor detects whether the camera is being held in the portrait or landscape orientation when an image is captured, and automatically rotates the image in the camera's LCD preview screen and on a computer when downloading using Canon's ZoomBrowser software.
• Extended battery life providing approximately 650 images without flash or 500 images with 50 percent flash.
• Ability to save an image in RAW format even when it was shot in JPEG mode.

The EOS-10D comes complete with battery pack, compact single battery-charging unit, USB cable, video cable, the latest Canon software and Photoshop Elements. The EOS-10D accepts the same BP-511 battery pack, and the same BG-ED3 battery grip as the EOS-D60.

From the Manufacturer
Canon continues to answer the needs of professional photographers and photo enthusiasts with the EOS 10D digital SLR. The 10D, with its APS C-sized CMOS sensor and 6.3 effective megapixels, provides photographers with the superior performance, advanced features, and ingenuity they expect from a Canon EOS SLR camera. Equipped with Canon’s exclusive DIGIC technology, the EOS 10D delivers enhanced image quality, autofocus accuracy and speed. The EOS 10D boasts exceptional performance with a high-speed 7-point AF and 3 fps of continuous shooting with a maximum burst of 9 shots. The EOS 10D also features selectable Adobe RGB and sRGB color spaces, an ISO speed range from 100 to 3200 and a color temperature that can be set from 2800K to 10000K in 100K increments. Other attributes include a vertical orientation detection sensor for automatic rotation of vertical images and direct print capabilities from Bubble Jet Direct and Card Photo Printers. Canon’s EOS 10D - exceptiona! l functionality and superior features all enclosed in an extremely durable, weather-resistant, magnesium alloy body.

6.3-Megapixel CMOS Sensor

Canon's newly developed large, single-plate CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensor captures images with exceptional clarity and tonal range. Created through a new high-precision manufacturing method, it delivers ultra-fine accuracy with an effective 6.30-megapixel resolution (approximately 6.50 total megapixels) and features advanced new peripheral circuitry that further enhances image quality. The effective sensor size (22.7 x 15.1mm) has the same 3:2 ratio as film cameras, enabling an effective angle of view that is 1.6x the normal EF lens focal length.

High-Performance Imaging Engine

Information captured by the CMOS sensor is processed and assembled into images of exceptional quality by new Imaging Engine, the latest version of Canon's exclusive all-in-one DIGIC digital imaging processor. color reproduction is extremely natural and details are incredibly precise, especially with gradations in the highlight areas. In fact, reproduction is so accurate that noise reduction is unnecessary, even with long exposures.

Rigid Magnesium-Alloy Body

The lightweight EOS 10D has a rock-solid look and feel that suits demanding outdoor use. Tough and reliable, its top, front and rear covers are made of rigid magnesium alloy the same material featured in the bodies of Canon's top-of-the line EOS-1 professional models. The body is just the right size (140.7 x 107.5 x 75.0mm) and weight (790 grams) for stable, easy handling, and features a black satin finish that heightens the look of elite quality.

High Speed 7-Point AF

Canon's wide area 7-point AF system ensures sharp, accurate focusing with speedy subject tracking that is consistently maintained even at 3 fps. This outstanding performance is made possible by advanced focusing technology including a high-speed microcomputer, a sophisticated new AF algorithm and AF sequence, and the same AF sensor employed in the EOS Elan 7 or EOS 30/33. Selection of the AF point can be automated by the EOS 10D or manually controlled through use of easy-to-operate dials and a superimposed display of the seven AF points.

3 fps Continuous Shooting

With a continuous shooting speed of up to three frames per second and a maximum burst of nine shots, the EOS 10D is equipped to seize every photo opportunity. The high-performance imaging engine and generous buffer memory help maintain this speedy performance regardless of selected recording quality, ISO speed and subject conditions.

Color Matrix

The wide range of selectable processing parameters includes a choice of two professional color spaces: the standard sRGB color space and the expanded Adobe RGB (1998) color space. Making the selection that best suits your needs is always easy with the Canon EOS 10D.

Expanded Zoom Display during Playback

When viewing recorded images on the camera's display, you can enlarge them up to 10x in 15 steps for detailed analysis. Simple controls enable horizontal and vertical scrolling, as well as viewing of the previous or next image stored in the CF card from the same enlarged view. Nine images are displayed simultaneously in the maximum reduced view.

White Balance and WB Bracketing

Six automatic white balance modes provide optimum settings for most shooting situations. Precise dialling in of color temperature in Kelvin values is also possible, with settings selectable from 2800K to 10000K in 100K increments. White balance bracketing lets you capture three images (normal, reddish, bluish) with one shot, and at the same exposure level, with white balance shifted to 3 stops in whole-stop increments.

Auto Manual and Manual ISO Speed

ISO speed is automatically set between 100 and 400 depending on shooting mode (Full Auto, Landscape, Close-up, Night Portrait or Flash-off), or manually set to 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 or 3200.

JPEG or Simultaneous RAW + JPEG

Whenever you shoot the Canon EOS 10D, you can choose to have it record in the JPEG format alone, or in the RAW and JPEG formats simultaneously. Both recording methods provide six selectable settings for JPEG image quality. Canon's proprietary RAW (CRW) format is preferable when the highest possible image quality is desired. The JPEG file format is ideal for purposes such as Internet image transfer that require reduced file sizes.

Directing Printing from the Camera

This convenient feature lets you print beautiful photos with minimum time and effort directly from the EOS10D. Simply connect the camera with any capable Canon photo printer via the provided dedicated USB cable to print images stored in the CF card. This feature complies with EXif Ver.2.2 (EXif print) and DPOF Ver.1.1.

Customer Reviews

An awesome camera for an even better price!
I'd been wanting to go digital with my photography hobby for a few years, and purchased a nice Nikon Coolpix only to find it was fine for casual shots but still not what I need for my action shots and more serious work. But the digital SLRs were too new, too expensive, and have too few of the feature I felt they needed for the price. When the Canon 10D came out, and I started reading the great reviews on it, I finally knew the time had come! After a few months of using it, I can report that I am totally happy I made the switch!

First, even though Canon made lots of improvements over the D60, they lowered the price considerably. This camera has pretty much everything I need. The one big negative for most people, the fact that your focal lengths are multiplied by 1.6 is actually a bonus for me since I shoot almost exclusively with telephoto. If you do ultra-wideangle stuff, this is certainly a problem.

Being able to switch the ISO setting is great. Sure, I could always swap my film mid-roll if I had to, but always had to waste a few frames, and it was always a pain to do. Not a problem now, just a simple camera setting. I shot some indoor stuff at both 1600 and 3200, the 3200 was not real useable, but the 1600 was pretty decent, particularly after some clean-up in Photoshop.

That's of course the biggest advantage I find with digital. There's so much that I can do in Photoshop that I couldn't easily do with film. There's some excellent books out there on using Photoshop for digital photographers, and there are some great actions and filters that will help automate your corrections. I sell all my photos online through a website that handles all the printing and shipping for me as well, and does a great job with all my shots.

I love being able to immediately see the shot that I took. I don't always have time between shots, but I can often review them later, and delete directly from the camera any obviously bad ones, and show off some of the great ones! It's a great learning tool and my skills have already started to improve as a result.

Another great feature with digital is the EXIF information that gets embedded in the digital files. No need to record your shooting parameters, just open the file up in Photoshop (or other program that supports it) and you have all the information on your shot: date and time taken, fstop used, maximum fstop, shutter speed, exposure and white balance settings, focal length, etc. Really great particularly if you are just learning.

The camera functions and menus are pretty easy to use and fairly intuitive, particularly if you are used to Canons as I was. The quality of your photos will be greatly improved with good lenses, don't spend this much for a camera and then get cheap lenses! Good glass is really essential.

I would also strongly suggest that you get a USB 2.0 or Firewire compact flash reader for your computer rather than trying to download directly from the camera using the rather slow USB 1.1. If you shoot lots of photos this is practically essential, I can easily fill a couple of 1 gig cards in a session.

Most of the gripes I have with the camera are fairly minor. I would like more than 6MP, more autofocus sensors, larger buffer (to handle more than 9 shots at a time), more frames a second, etc. But for the price, I don't think you will find a better digital camera,

Goodbye analog, helooooo EOS 10D
Ahh, the $1500 magic number. I couldn't resist, and finally succumbed to digital. I've been shooting for 20 years with medium format cameras, old rangefinders, and classic manual Nikon lenses on my old Nikkormat. For some time, I was certain that digital couldn't approach the qualities of film.

I thought they'd never achieve the film effects that I got so easily with my traditional camera, like flaring highlights, shallow focus, atmospheric low-light stuff, skin tones, etc.. The digital images looked hi hi-rez video stillls, especially highlights- they looked like buzzy video.

Well, the 10D does all these things, and does them better than film. I believe in the long run it does them cheaper, and it definitely does them faster, as I'm not scanning for 3 hours a night. The first lens I bought was a 35mm f2, and it's been fantastic. With the 1.6 focal length multiplier, it's similar to having a classic 50/1.4 on your film SLR. Very nice out-of-focus effects. With the 35/2 mounted and the camera on ISO 800, you'd have a hard time convincing me that any 800 spead film could come even close the images I've gotten. With a fast lens, the low light capability of this camera is astounding. But that's just one of the good things. Having different ISO films in different cameras, or chanding film mid-roll, I am so not missing that hassle. There's no shutter lag to speak of. The build quality is very good.

The engineering and interface design are absolutely first rate. If you've used older manual cameras and have a good understand of photography, you will be amazed at how intuitive the controls are. All the most often-used settings are right there under your fingertips- white balance, focus zones and servo behavior, drive rate, ISO settings and metering patterns. No matter what you're fiddling with or how deep into the menus you are, the shutter release puts you right back into shooting mode immediately. The control wheels on the top and back do just the things you'd expect them to in a given exposure mode, and they do it with a precision and certainty that left me never wanting to go back to my old cameras. (This is nothing new for anyone used to even a Canon Rebel G, but it's sobering for a classic camera user.) Choose exact shutter speeds or f-stops, or tweak exposure by half or third stops right there as you look through the viewfinder.

I've seen talk on the web about softness in the images. Personally I'm pleased with it. You can always sharpen more later, and as they are straight from the camera, there are no aliasing artifacts at all. I believe the antialising filter is the source of this "softness". When you zoom into details, it looks more like a film image than a pixel-based digital image. How could anyone complain about that? Tight details like eye highlights- these look like organic details, not jaggy pixels. With over 3000 pixels across, I don't know what more people would want: you have to zoom in very tight to see this, so I don't know what people are expecting. At 8X10, prints look plenty sharp to me.

What else . . . the metering is very good. Backlit subjects in front of windows are handled perfectly. The skin tones are just gorgeous. The flare control and color fidelity of the Canon lenses is very very good, and I'm using the cheap stuff. The L series is certainly better still if you're well heeled.

The dynamic range is still definitely not as wide as that of film- maybe close to slide film, but any negative film on a bright sunny day still kicks the -- out of digital in terms the brightest and darkest tones it can capture. The 10D is light years ahead of snapshot-type digital cameras in this regard.

If I had one big gripe it would have to be the myopic feeling of looking through the viewfinder- a result of the CMOS chip being smaller than a standard 35mm frame. The optics of the viewfinder are still built for 35, just masked off for the smaller sensor size, so you sort of get the impression of looking down a long hallway at the image. If you've ever picked up a Canon EOS film camera, (or the new EOS 1Ds with its full frame chip) the big, glorious presentation is pretty impressive by comparison. That, coupled with the 1.6X focal length multiplication is such a waste of a lens capability- you're only getting the center 60% of the lens's image. (By the way, that one review in here that talks about multiplying or dividing the image resolution by 1.6 or whatever- it's complete cockamamie. It's the focal length of the lens that's multiplied. The resolution of the camera has nothing to do with it.) The whole 1.6X thing is a royal pain, and I'll be glad when full frame chips are cheap enough and the world can step back up and stop doing all the conversion stuff.

Otherwise- its easily the best DSLR out there right now.

wonderful
I have been very resistant to digital cameras. I mainly use a elan 7 and a mamiya 645 for all of my work, but after spending hours and hours every night scanning prints and slides, and even more time removing those little specs from dust, I took the plunge into the world of dslr cameras.

I chose the 10d because the rebel's body is a little cheap and the 1ds is way out of my price range. The 10d is a very sturdy camera with a good amount of weight to it that helps reduce camera shake.

The focusing problems other peaple have talked about is not present in my camera. I have several friends with 10ds and they have no proplems either. I think that people might not be paying attention to shutter time ar perhaps they are using third party lesnes.

The battery lasts a very ling time. To test the camera I took it to Disney's Animal Kingdom and the battery lasted all day (over 350 images taken plus a lot of reviewing and playing).

This camera is great and performs in a pro manner. The white balance braketing is really cool (no more warm filters needed in overcast days). The images I took at 2:00 on a overcast day look like they were taken late afternoon on a clear day.

I realy like that when you trasfer the images to your computer, all of the image info goes with it (and I mean all of the image info, even what lense you had on the camera {i.e. 70-200} and the actual mm the lense was at when the image was taken {i.e. 105}

If you have any doubts about purchasing you can put them aside. Canon has really produced a spectacular camera that yields spectacular results.