I have seen reports that the 40D RAW format is supported by Leopard. Get the Aperture 1.5.6 update as well for the best experience.

Tags: Leopard, Canon, 40D, RAW

Many people have been waiting for DPReview to write at length on the Canon 40D. It's a big review -- 30 pages.

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A frustration with buying the latest and greatest DSLR is that Aperture won't support the RAW format straight away. We're forced to wait for an update to add that capability. This is one reason that I went for the Canon 30D rather than the 40D: it's supported and has been for a long time.

Derrick Story at O'Reilly Digital Media has a partial answer: shoot RAW+JPEG and view the JPEGs in Aperture.

Tags: Canon, 40D, G9, RAW, JPEG, Aperture

Bird Over The Bay:1/800s f/9.0 ISO100 200mm, Canon 30D, EF 70-200 f2.8 L IS, cropped, adjusted

One of the things I'm loving about my DSLR is that I no longer have to deal with the fog of an electronic viewfinder. They should really be called electronic fuzz makers: it's very difficult to know what you are taking a picture of. I've had many a surprise when I've looked at the result in Aperture and seen objects and detail that I had no idea existed at the time.

Now I can track things, see accurate color, be aware of detail, and, most importantly, know when things are in focus. And it makes manual focussing possible. Manual focussing with up and down buttons and an electronic viewfinder is just wretched. In the picture above I could wait until the bird banked in front of the lighter water so that it was recognizable and get the picture I wanted with ease.

Of course with the 30D I don't get a live preview, nor a flip-out screen (like the S3), so that makes it harder to get certain shots. Live preview is one advantage the 40D has over the 30D that would be useful to me.

Tags: DSLR, Viewfinder, Canon, 30D, 40D, S3

DPReview has the specs on the new Canon 40D, the successor to the 30D that I just bought. It looks very good on paper with some solid improvements, but nothing so important that I want to sell the 30D and get one right now. The one thing I really don't need that it has is more pixels: that's more pixels to process and store for every image I take with the thing, a big multiplier of effort.

Tags: Canon, 30D, 40D