Desired DSLR announced today

Finally! Canon announced the successor of the EOS 30D today: The Canon EOS 40D. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a full frame sensor, what I had wished secretly, but it seems that these haven’t reached a reasonable price range yet. So, it still crops the view with a factor of 1.6, but I’ll try to stick to the better EF lenses anyway rather than just using EF-S. Nevertheless, the main enhancements to the 30D are:

• 10 MP instead of 8 MP,
• 14-bit processing instead of 12-bit,
• DIGIC III processor instead of DIGIC II,
• Dust reduction by filter vibration instead of nothing,
• Interchangeable viewfinder screen instead of a fixed one,
• ISO sensitivity icon in the viewfinder instead of no indication,
• 3.0” TFT LCD instead of 2.5”,
• LCD Live View,
• Multiple exposures on mirror lock-up,
• 3 custom user modes instead of none,
• Continuous shooting with a rate of 6.5 fps instead of 5.0 fps, and a burst of 75 JPEG or 17 RAW images instead of 30 JPEG or 11 RAW images.

Wanna have! This one will be it. Expect it in my possession at the winter family days (vulgo Christmas) this year.

Update 08/21: Some Austrian vendors already list the EOS 40D at a price of €1,299. My vendor of choice will be Foto-Video Sobotka in Vienna, as I already bought my PowerShot A710 IS there and I got some vouchers for their shop. My first lens might be the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM, what Sobotka lists at a price of €999.