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Well, we can all rest easy now as our beloved Canon has officially announced the EOS 50D. And with the official specs and features, I’m sure our fellow Gadgetell writer Jodie would be glad to know that the 50D will definitely not disappoint her again.

Most of the specs we mentioned to you yesterday are pretty much accurate as far as the official Canon announcement goes. The EOS 50D would have a 15.1-megapixel sensor, DIGIC 4 image processor, ISO range between 100-12800, multiple level noise reduction during high-speed shooting, peripheral illumination correction, 14-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion, 6.3 frames per second (fps) shooting, auto lighting optimizer, a viewfinder with 0.95x magnification, and an autofocus system which is similar to the EOS 40D’s AF system.

New to the EOS 50D which were not in the 40D are features such as a 3-inch Clear View LCD screen and additional Live View function including “Quick Mode AF” and “Live Mode AF” and an HDMI output for viewing photos on HDTV’s. For image capturing formats Canon has added two sRAW formats. The SRAW1 gets a 7.1-megapixel resolution while the sRAW2 gets the 3.8-megapixel resolution.

The EOS 50D is expected to hit US stores sometime in October with a retail price of around $1,399 for the body and $1,599 for the body plus a Canon EF 280135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM kit lens.

Read [Canon Press Room]