Canon EOS 50D (Price $1,299, Available October 2008): a newly designed CMOS 15.1 megapixel sensor that has an ISO up to 3200; new DIGIC 4 Image processor which improves on image processing, finer detail and more natural color reproduction; 6.3 fps and can use UDMA memory cards (fast memory transfer technology); Live View Shooting (similar to Point-n-Shoot); newly improved LCD View Screen (920,000-dot) 3.0 inch similar to Nikon’s D300/D700 View Screen (40D has 230,000-dots only); New HDMI Port so camera can be hooked up to Full HD TVs and clients can watch photos being captured in High Definition.

Nikon D90 (Price $999, Available September 2008) newly-developed CMOS 12.2 megapixel Sensor; improved ISO 200-3200, 12 position, 5 manual preset White Balance settings; 4.5 fps, Live View, D-Movie mode 1280x720 pixel video quality, HDMI Port so camera can be hooked up to Full HD TVs, LCD View Screen (920,000-dot) 3.0 inch (D80 has 230,000-dots only), Dust Removal System, 3D Tracking AF (11 Point), Nikon Expeed 12 bit Image Processor, Scene Recognition System and Face Detection AF.