Digital lifestyle specialist, Pinnacle Micro, has announced the local availability of Canon's EOS 400D, a high-end digital camera aimed at the photographic professional.
10.1 Megapixels of CMOS resolution and Canon's Integrated Cleaning System deliver the EOS hallmark of crisp, clean images, shot after shot.
So says Cobus Erasmus, Canon brand manager at Pinnacle Micro who says that the EOS 400D's 10.1 Megapixel sensor employs the same CMOS as its big brothers in the professional EOS 1 range. "Highly sensitive in low light and virtually noise free, the CMOS is also fast and power efficient," he says.
"For consistent results, a complete dust prevention and cleaning system works to keep the EOS 400D's sensor spotless. A combination of technologies reduces, repels and removes dust including the Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit that shakes dust from the sensor with each power on."
Erasmus says users can effectively review their work with the bright 2.5-inch 230k-pixel display. Photos feel crisper, richer and more saturated while a 160 degree viewing angle makes for easy at-a-glance checking and sharing.
Users can shoot at three frames per second for continuous bursts of up to 27 large Jpeg images and switching between Picture Style presets is like being able to change film mid-roll to achieve different colour response and black and white effects. Sharpness, contrast, colour tone and saturation are individually adjustable.
Erasmus says users can also select from one of nine fixed focussing points across the scene for fast, accurate focussing, even with off-centre subjects and 'rule of thirds' compositions.
"The DIGIC II 'super computer' renders colours with precision, accuracy and speed," he says. "Fast and power efficient, DIGIC II also delivers instant 0.2 second start up time."
The EOS 400D is compatible with all of the more than 60 EF and EF-S lenses and all EX Series Speedlite flash units. E-TTL II passes data such as focal length and distance information from compatible EFV lenses to the Speedlites for consistently accurate flash exposures.
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