Canon EOS 50D anandtech.com User Reviews

Yeah, they probably should have made it more clear that this is just a reprint of the press release, though it is rather obvious. As for the actual announcements, the 50D has a few features I wish my 40D had (AF micro-adjust, hello), though I'll wait and...

The 50D will not ship until October. Since there were many rumors with wrong info on the 50D flying around we posted the press release and added pictures as soon as we received it from Canon. because we believed our readers would want the correct feature...

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Ha ha yes, I was waiting for the article to start proper - but it never did

Yup... not a bad bit of infomercial, but DailyTech material, not AT, since it lacks critical analysis and benchmarking -- not that I'm yet convinced AT will ever review cameras as well as photo-centric sites.

Indeed - great press release, but surely if we are going ot start getting this on AT it should be a blog post, or just call it a press release. Letting manufacturer press masquerade as actual articles just degrades the site.

It used to be that, when you wanted to see press releases (which are basically ads) surrounded by extra ads, you went to DailyTech. AnandTech used to be the place where you got your editorial ads (i.e., biased "reviews") surrounded by extra ads. How wil...

> This is not common practice in the Digital camera industry > and there are no NDAs in digital SLRs. dpreview.com gets pre-production samples under NDA, as do a few other sites like rob galbraith. lots of sites re-post press releases, but they at least...

The 50D will not ship until October. Since there were many rumors with wrong info on the 50D flying around we posted the press release and added pictures as soon as we received it from Canon. because we believed our readers would want the correct feature...

Yeah, they probably should have made it more clear that this is just a reprint of the press release, though it is rather obvious. As for the actual announcements, the 50D has a few features I wish my 40D had (AF micro-adjust, hello), though I'll wait and...