I shoot these pics on the first day I bought my Canon EOS 40D at the Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2007(HKCCF 2007). Now that Adobe has released the updated version of my preferred RAW conversion application, Lightroom 1.2. I have processed the pics from that day and put together a gallery here.

All the pics were shot with Canon EOS 40D with EF 50mm f1.4, EF 85mm f.18 and EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS. All pics were shot in RAW and converted to .psd format with Adobe Lightroom 1.2 and then exported to Photoshop CS3 with minimal image adjustment (a few had slight Levels adjustment), resizing and sharpening, addition of photo frames and text and saved in jpeg format.

You can click on individual images for a larger view at 25% or original size. You can see quite a bit of fine details at this size.

If you have not read my original Canon EOS 40D review article yet, you can read it here.

Just picked up my new 40D yesterday. I haven’t had time to do go through all the new functions yet, but then 3″ LCD is obviously a major improvement from the tiny 1.8″ LCD on my old 20D. Initial impression about focus was good. Especially the other 8 focusing spots other than the center one. They seemed much more sensitive and quicker to focus, probably because they are all cross type sensors now. Live view is actually quite easy to use, once you have selected it in the custom menu. the shutter/mirror noise is MUCH quieter than the 20D.

I’ll just put up one shot I took at Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2007 yesterday.