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Man I sure hope that this camera has great quality, because the DPReview and digitalcamerinfo.com preview has me drooling as well as Ken Rockwell

• 21 megapizel, full frame, 14-bit (so you can’t use your EF-S lenses like the 10-22 or the 18-55, but it is going to be really good hopefully for low noise and for getting nice wide angle even with a 24-105 F/4 lense)
• 1080i/30 H.264 high definition video (12 minute clips, so great for most home movies really).
• ISO 100-640 calibrated. Will go up to ISO 25600 but I’m sure look like a cartoon.
• LiveView with facde detection and no mirror flip if using contrast detection.
• $2700 list price (gulp for the body only!).
• Vignette compensation
• Relatively compact at 810 grams (1.8 lb) and 152×114x75mm (6×4.5×2.9”)
• 3.9fps upto 310 on a UDMA CF card
• AutoISO mode where you pick the exposure and aperture and it picks the ISO
• Face detection AF where the camera looks for the faces and focuses on them.

• 3” LCD that is VGA resolution (!!!)

  Some of the negatives:

• It doesn’t come in with a flash built in, but with such a fast camera, it is not clear how much a flash really buys you (just boost to ISO 6400 if you need it).
• Stays with Compact Flash even as the world is moving to SDHC. Prices of CF is still decent but in the long term, you can see SDHC dropping.

• It is heavy in 28 ounces plus a lense, so you are lugging around more than a kilo.

  The guys are slashgear.com did a review of it as a video camear. They say it produces 1080p in very low light. There is a new camera called RED which uses dSLR lenses which are of really great quality, so maybe I don’t need to buy a Canon XH-A1 camcorder.