April Fools' Day 2010 - Canon Announces 60D!

"LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.,April 1, 2010 – With the demand for digital SLR cameras reaching unprecedented levels, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, is answering the call with the announcement of the next evolution in advanced amateur digital SLR photography, the EOS 60D Digital SLR Camera with18 megapixel resolution and Canon's new DIGIC5 image processor. Designed to offer extraordinary quality and image control for the advanced photographer with a passion for the art, the Canon EOS 60D Digital SLR camera includes an articulated screen, improved noise reduction, more customization options, and full HD movie mode."

• 18Megapixel CMOS sensor (APS-C size)
• DIGIC5 processor (new and faster)
• Movie mode (24/25/30 fps full HD/720p)
• Articulated screen
• New customization options
• 6fps continuous shooting, max. burst85 JPEGs with UDMA card
• HDMI connection

Here's the full text link to the announcement.


As this auspicious holiday has come and gone, I felt it was appropriate to change the title of the thread. ;-)

Oh very funny! Before I even read your post I jumped over to Canon USA to see if it was listed on their site (not even thinking about April Fools Day). When it wasn't there I hovered over your link and saw "Shortcut to April_Fools%27_Day at en.wikipedia.org". I bet you hook a lot of fish with this one!!!


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Having read your specsI bet you're pretty close! There are a lot of givens in there but I like how you threw in the DIGIG V :-)

Almost bought it until I saw Digic 5.

Hehe nice one Sean [:D] The day is almost over here, 8 o'clock in the evening, and you're the first to prank me, nice job! [Y]

dang i almost clicked on the link!!! hahahahaha

LOL!

WHAT? What's the difference between that and the 7D now? Did the 60d get the 7d's AF?


[:P][8o|][:|]EDIT: you got me there Sean. I actually thought that was legit. *phews*

Had me hook line and sinker. Most of that was about what I would expect a 60D to have... :)

[:D]

HAHA[8o|]


But this wouldn't change anything for me. I still want a 5D Mark II. [:)]

*ordered*

All I was thinking reading it was that a 50D might be getting into reach...yep, you got me.

While reading your post...I was thinking "Then, 7D's price will be a bit going down and that's probably the chance to grab it" until I did click on the link. Boom....!


You got me too, Sean, lol. The worst is that it was1:15 a.m. on 2nd April, here,at the time of reading your post, after escaping safe and sound the entire day of 1st April. Grrrrrrrrrrr.... [8o|]

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I'd wait. They mayannounce 5D MkIII tonight.[;)]

I hope I didn't get anyone's hopes up too high. I'm glad no one got too upset at my little gag. ;-)


Speaking of "gags," I played a good one on a coworker today. I work as a Sales Analyst for a medium sized manufacturing company (photography is my second job). It's my job to prepare a sales report each day detailing the previous days' sales and shipments. Well, today I prepared a special report for our supervisor over the warehouse and shipping. On that report, his sales and shipments were down about $100,000 month-to-date (I explained in the email that we recently found a calculation error in the report that caused the total sales to drop to their correct levels in the most recent report). Well, let's just say the warehouse manager paged me 10 minutes after I sent the email...he was flabbergasted at how far he was from his quarterly quota and today was the last day he could ship anything. After I told him I was just jerking his chain, he called me quite a few names that I'm certain Bryan wouldn't want repeated in the forum. He laughed about it, though...


he he he

I was already making plans for an upgrade... you got me... lol

Everyone is jumping on this


http://www.canonrumors.com/

Good one Sean!


My friend and I have a 4/01 history with the teachers at my school. Last year, since the Confickr worm was supposed to release that exact day, we made fake email accounts, typed up emails that made it look like the worm was downloaded, and sent them to every teacher. The less tech savvy teachers fell for it.


This year we printed some of thesefake copier updates,had them laminated and put them on the copiers. Teachers were so confused. But the principal ended up turning it on some of the students by asking them to go make him copies. One girl stood at the copier for 6 minutes repeating "Copy, copy.. .copyy.."

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Everyone is jumping on this


http://www.canonrumors.com/

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I almost put "New 13 point AF"...but I felt the need for more differentiation between it and the 7D

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This year we printed some of thesefake copier updates,had them laminated and put them on the copiers. Teachers were so confused. But the principal ended up turning it on some of the students by asking them to go make him copies. One girl stood at the copier for 6 minutes repeating "Copy, copy.. .copyy.."

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I saw that prank earlier this week and thought it was hilarious. I wish I had known about those pre-formatted print-outs because I would have been all over that too.

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This year we printed some of thesefake copier updates,had them laminated and put them on the copiers. Teachers were so confused. But the principal ended up turning it on some of the students by asking them to go make him copies. One girl stood at the copier for 6 minutes repeating "Copy, copy.. .copyy.."

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That's awesome!!

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Originally Posted by Rodger

This year we printed some of thesefake copier updates,had them laminated and put them on the copiers. Teachers were so confused. But the principal ended up turning it on some of the students by asking them to go make him copies. One girl stood at the copier for 6 minutes repeating "Copy, copy.. .copyy.."

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I'll have to try those next year! [;)]