Canon EOS 50D

The Canon EOS-50D is a very competent midrange digital SLR. It offers very good photo quality (with a quality lens attached), rocket-fast performance, plenty of manual controls and customizable features, and a super-sharp 3-inch LCD. There aren't too many negatives to mention, but the major ones are the noticeable drop in battery life compared to the EOS-40D that came before it, occasional highlight clipping and overexposure, and sluggish contrast detect focus in live view mode (par for the course, I'm afraid). While I'm not rushing out to sell my EOS-40D and upgrade, the 50D is a solid D-SLR that I can definitely recommend. Read full review ...

The Canon EOS 50D is a feature-packed semi-pro DSLR which takes the already capable 40D, increases the pixel count by 50%, quadruples the sensitivity and packs in all the latest features – bar a movie mode. As such it’s a very impressive specification, and one which on the whole lives up to its promise. Kicking-off with resolution, the EOS 50D packs more pixels into its cropped sensor than any model to date, so there’s obviously concerns over noise levels. But Canon’s bold claims of... Read full review ...