New 8.2-Megapixel Digital SLR from Canon
August 23, 2004
Mississauga, ON. - Canon Canada has introduced the company's EOS 20D Digital SLR camera with a new APS-C (15.0 x 22.5 mm) 8.2 megapixel CMOS image sensor designed and manufactured by Canon.
The company describes the camera's use in Wedding/Portrait Photography, among other applicatoins, positioning the CMOS sensor maximum resolution of 3504 x 2336 pixels as sufficient for very large prints (up to 16 x 24 inches) with fine facial details in group-shots.
The wedding photography business is changing, the company describes. Consumers are now looking for more natural and candid documentary coverage of their weddings, it says, with both posed and candid event photographs.
Featuring a new 9-point AF unit with high-precision cross-type sensor, the camera was introduced as the first mid-range digital SLR to offer high-speed continuous shooting of five frames-per-second with a burst of 23 frames at highest JPEG resolution. The camera starts up in 0.2-second and has a shutter release time lag of 65 milliseconds. The EOS 20D has a newly developed shutter with a top speed of 1/8000 sec., user-settable in 1/3 and 1/2 stop increments (in shutter speed priority AE and manual modes) and a maximum flash synchronization speed of 1/250 sec.
The camera has built-in white balance controls, including Auto, six Presets, a Custom setting and direct specification of color temperature. White balance can be corrected for blue, amber, magenta or green; white balance bracketing, up to +/- 3 whole stops, can be performed for magenta-green as well as blue-amber. When the EOS 20D digital camera is used with the built-in flash or the new Speedlite 580EX, color temperature data transmission is enabled.
The EOS 20D will be available in body-only or as a zoom lens kit configuration. The kit includes the camera body as well as the BP-511A lithium-ion battery pack, Battery Charger CG-580, USB Cable IFC-400PCU, Video Cable VC-100, a wide neckstrap, three software CDs, printed instruction manuals, a 1-year Canon Canada limited warranty and the standard EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.
Available in September, the EOS 20D digital SLR lists a manufacturer’s suggested price of $2,500 CDN without lens; and with the EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5 –5.6 zoom lens $2,800 CDN.
For more information, visit
www.canon.ca
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