Canon Câmera SLR Digital EOS 40D (Corpo de Câmera)

GREAT Camera!

A few features of the 40D that I absolutely love are: 6.5 fps, Live View, 3” LCD, Top LCD, Larger Viewfinder, Higher/More ISO Increments, Noise Reduction, Bigger/Better ...Read complete review

A few features of the 40D that I absolutely love are: 6.5 fps, Live View, 3” LCD, Top LCD, Larger Viewfinder, Higher/More ISO Increments, Noise Reduction, Bigger/Better Body, Longer Battery Life, and all the customization!6.5 fps:For the type of shooting I do, I won’t really be using 6.5 fps too often, but for those rare occasions that I might use\need it, I will be glad that I do. For the wedding shoot I assisted on a few days ago, I used the 6.5 fps for the dancing. I also got some great action shots of the kids running around, and of the father\daughter dance. I also expect to be using the 6.5 fps when\if I decide to shoot some sports/action. One other thing that I will cover under the fps, is the shutter! Call me weird, but I LOVE the shutter sound of the 40! Compared to my XTi, it sounds more professional, and more like a DSLR. I also have read that the 40D has the quietest shutter in the Canon line up. This is because of the way it all works; when the shutter button is clicked, a motor lifts the shutter, and then the motor closes it. Other cameras will use a spring to push it up or down, and then a motor to bring it down or up. Such as the XTi, it springs up (hence the annoying sound), and then a motor brings it down. Even though the shutter is the quietest in the Canon lineup, it can get even quieter! When using live view, the shutter sound is almost completely silent! All you hear is the shutter going down; even in a burst, all you will hear is the shutter dropping down. This is perfect for wedding ceremonies, when you don’t want to be too distracting.Live View:Live view is another cool feature that the 40D has. It may not seem\sound like much to you, but it is pretty cool. I originally thought I would never use live view, just because I am never in a situation where I can’t look through the viewfinder. But at the wedding, I proved myself wrong! Knowing that I had live view, I got some different angles. Such as, when everyone was dancing I held the camera over my head, turned on live view, composed the shot, and then took it! One downside (or so people say) to live view is the fact that you can’t autofocus while using live view. But you can! You just have to enable the autofocus during live view (C. Fn III: 6). After you enable Custom Function IIII : 6, you just have to press the AF-ON button on the camera, and it will autofocus! While it focuses, you won’t be able to see via live view, but when you take your finger off of the AF-ON button, live view will turn back on and you can take the shot.Another great thing about live view is the ability to zoom in up to a 100% crop on any selected area of the photo! With this great feature, you can manual focus and be as spot on as ever! This is great for astrophotography, and macro!When using live view, the shutter sound is almost completely silent! All you hear is the shutter going down; even in a burst, all you will hear is the shutter dropping down. This is perfect for wedding ceremonies, when you don’t want to be too distracting.3” LCD:The 40D features a huge, 3” LCD screen! Even though it uses the same number of pixels as the XTi does, with its 2.5” screen, the 40D’s LCD is amazing! It can be bright enough that you can see it clearly in direct sunlight or dark enough that only you can see what is on the screen! With the extra screen space, you can now see the RGB histograms, as well as the regular light histogram! Unlike the XTi, you could only see the regular\light histogram. This 3” screen also helps viewing your photos to make sure they are coming out the way you want them to. It also helps with live view, when you are at a 100% crop, manual focusing, you can see everything clearer then with a smaller screen.Top LCD:All of Canon’s DSLRs have a top LCD screen for displaying the camera’s settings. (Well, all of them accept the Rebel series) Coming from an XTi, I was scared that this small LCD for the settings would be hard to get use to, and be hard to use just because I am so use to using the rear LCD for my settings. But after using the 40D, I was amazed by how much easier it is to use to top LCD screen! Instead of moving your head back completely, just to see your settings, you just have to lower the camera a few inches and you can see the settings! One thing I am still getting use to, are the dials you have to turn to change a specific setting. For example, if I want to change my ISO, I have to push the ISO/Flash-Comp button, and then turn the top dial to change ISO, if I turn the big\main dial, I will change the flash compensation instead of the ISO.Larger Viewfinder:Even though the 40D has the same sized sensor (1.6x) as the XTi, the viewfinder is a whole lot bigger and brighter! The viewfinder just looks incredible! What makes it just that much better, is the fact that it shows every single one of your settings at the bottom of the viewfinder. This is great for photographers who can’t spare any time moving their eye to see\change their settings. The XTi’s viewfinder also displays your settings in the viewfinder, but it does not include your ISO, which the 40D does! The 40D viewfinder displays: shutter speed, aperture, exposure, ISO, and your max burst (The number of photos you can burst through at high speed, before it slows down). These settings\numbers that it shows makes using and shooting with the 40D so much easier!Higher/More ISO Increments:The 40D has a ton of different ISO increments! Probably the same increments for the other Canon cameras, but it have more ISO levels then the XTi. The 40D has ISO: Auto, 100, 125, 160, 200, 250, 320, 400, 500, 640, 800, 1000, 1250, 1600, and 3200. The 40D is one of the first Canon cameras to have Auto ISO! This was a major reason that I upgraded to the 40D. The more specific ISO increments, higher ISO options, and less noise! All the different ISO levels make the 40D just that much more customizable. ISO levels 125, 160, 250, 320, 500, 640, 1000, 1600, and 3200 are not available in\on the XTi! And this was a huge reason for me to upgrade. All of these ISO levels can let me customize my exposure just that much easier.Noise Reduction:Yes!! The 40D has noise reduction (NR)!! (C. Fn II : 2) This feature is incredible!! At 3200 ISO, with no noise reduction, there is a decent amount of noise (probably less then there is at 1600 ISO on the XTi). But when you use NR, the amount of noise drops dramatically! There is still some visible noise, but not as much as there would be without NR! What some people have shown, is if you use 3200 ISO, NR, proper exposure, and a noise reduction program, you can come out with a 3200 ISO photo with virtually no noise whatsoever! This is a HUGE bonus for all photographers, especially wedding photographers!Bigger and Better Body:The body of the 40D feels AMAZING! It is big enough to fit your entire hand on the grip, but it isn’t so big that it is a pain to carry around. The build of the camera body is also very nice. It feels very solid, and it just feels like it will last forever! The magnesium-alloy body is a huge upgrade over the cheap materials that the XTi is made from. All of the controls are placed perfectly to achieve quick access to all settings. At first, I was a little skeptical about the placement of some of the dials\buttons, but after holding and using the camera, everything feels so natural. I read some reviews saying that people upgrading from an XTi, to the 40D, will have trouble with the layout and the menus. But after only using the camera for 5 minutes, I figured out the placement of all the buttons and dials. In fact, the 40D and its dials\buttons\top LCD feels so much more natural than it did with the XTi, on the XTi you would have to look at the back screen to see and change your settings, but the 40D you just drop the camera a few inches and you can see your settings. I can actually reach the buttons above the top LCD screen, without taking my hand off of the grip! This is great if you can’t waste any time. One thing I am still getting use to, are the dials you have to turn to change a specific setting. For example, if I want to change my ISO, I have to push the ISO/Flash-Comp button, and then turn the top dial to change ISO, if I turn the big\main dial, I will change the flash compensation instead of the ISO.Longer Battery Life:The 40D uses 1390mAh Li-Ion batteries, while the XTi uses 720mAh Li-Ion batteries. This shows that the 40D gets twice the battery life of the XTi! This is a HUGE upgrade!! If you think about it, it may even out, with the power being used on the top LCD, the bigger 3” main LCD, live view, ect. And it does, but Canon also says that one charge of the 4D battery will let you shoot 1,100 shots with no flash until the battery dies! And this is true! I tested it at the wedding a few days ago! I went to around 1k shots, when the battery FINALLY died on me! And that is WITH using live view for a few shots! The XTi is only rated to last 500 shots with no flash, on one battery charge. Once again, another GREAT upgrade in the 40D!Customization:This is another HUGE feature that the 40D has, that makes it worth the upgrade! The 40D has 24 customizable options (Enable\Disable type options) shared between 4 categories: Exposure (C. Fn I), Image (C. Fn II), Auto Focus\Drive (C. Fn III), and Operation/Others (C. Fn IV). Exposure includes: exposure level increments 1/3 stop or ½ stop, ISO speed increments 1/3 stop or 1 stop, ISO expansion off or on (3200 ISO), bracketing auto cancel, bracketing sequence, safety shift, and flash sync speed in AV mode auto or 1/250 second. Image includes: long exposure noise reduction, high ISO speed noise reduction, highlight tone priority. The other two categories just include the basics (AF during live view, shutter button to AF or the * button to AF, ect.). These are all amazing features that the 40D has, and the XTi does not. I love being able to customize the camera to my likings. Not only does it have these 24 customizable options, but the 40D also has a customizable menu that lets you place certain options in your one menu tab for easy access. My customizable menu has: Custom WB, Live View function settings, C. Fn II : Image, ISO expansion, and Format. This lets me go to the menu and quickly chose one of these settings\menus to get to a specific option quickly. The 40D also has 3 custom modes on the mode dial! These are also very cool features. They let you set a frequently used stat setup and register it to one of the custom modes. For me I set them like this:C1 – 1/200, f/1.8, ISO 125. This is my portrait setting, so I can just flip to C1 on the mode dial and I can start shooting!C2 – 1/80, f/1.4, ISO 320. This is more of a low light setting for me. I can use it at a wedding, or just indoors when I don’t want to use my flash.C3 – 20”, f/16, ISO 100. This is my long exposure mode. I flip to this mode, and adjust the settings accordingly for proper, long exposure, exposure.The cool thing about these custom modes is the ability to adjust the settings in each mode, but when you do this it won’t permanently change the mode to those settings unless you chose to register those settings to that mode.There are SO MANY more features that make the 40D incredible! I will just list a few more extras\features that the 40D has, that make it worth an upgrade:- All 9 Cross-Type with Center High-Precision/Diagonal Auto-focus.- Weatherproofing!- Shutter speed from 1/8000 to 30 seconds and bulb.- DIGIC III Processor- 14 Bit Analog-Digital Converter- Highlight Tone Priority- Faster\Better Auto-focus