450D - Anyone got one yet?

[jimbouk]

Looks as if I am about to about to order a 450D body, to replace an aged EOS650.... Having spent the interim years playing with digital compacts.

Tried my old eos lenses on a 400D and they seemed to work ok, I'm sure the quality will not be as good as a new lenses but the old cannon EF 70-210 and the original 30 -65 (or similar) should get me started.

Just wondered if anyone had actually got a 450D and what their thoughts are, does it live up to the hype?

J

[RobDickinson]

The test shots on dpreview are the only things I've seen and frankly I'm not impressed.

You can get a 40D for about £500 that would be my pic.

[leightonjames]

THEY ARE OUT!!??

[jimbouk]

That looks like a fairly strong steer to the 40D, I had liked the fact that the 450d uses SD cards (intechangeable between my compacts) as oppossed to the CF cards, also does the 40D have a remote control facility?

One can buy a cheap remote for the 450d for £10 pounds whilst a remote for the 40d (LC-5 looks to be circa £250) am I wrong on this? Hope I am as this is looking tempting....

450d is available at Jessops and Amazon it appears.

J

[hawkaye]

Quinny said:

the 40D has a fire rate of 5 frames per second

6 and a half mate, and yes, it's a lovely camera

[jimbouk]

Ive just found a wireless remote for it - phottix on ebay for about £18....

Looking more tempting by the moment

How do you find the liveview function when using autofocus?

J

[Scoobydougie]

jimbouk said:

Ive just found a wireless remote for it - phottix on ebay for about £18....

J

I bought one of these for the 40D, works a treat!

It is like a machine gun though, brilliant!!!