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It started in Summer 2003 with the acquisition of the latest Canon Digital SLR, the Canon EOS 10D with 6.3MP together with the EF75-300 USM III, which is great value for its price. As I'm inspired by Canon's "L" glas family lenses I purchased the EF70-200L f2.8 and my first wide-angle lens, the EF17-40L, in 2005. The first "body" upgrade was due in September 2006 with the EOS 20D, the successor of the EOS 10D. Swapping the EF 70-200L against the EF100-400L, together with a body upgrade to the 40D, were the latest acquisitions back in March 2008.

	Canon EOS 40D + BG-E2 Battery Grip The EOS 40D becomes the sixth Canon 'prosumer' digital SLR and it's been eighteen months since the EOS 30D and although on the surface the 40D looks like a fairly subtle upgrade there's a lot that makes this an even better camera. Of course we expect a step up in megapixels, and so the 40D comes with a ten million pixel CMOS sensor with the same sort of dust reduction as the EOS 400D, an ultrasonic platform which shakes the low pass filter. Other improvements bring the EOS 40D closer into line with the EOS-1D series, these include a move to the same page-by-page menu system, both RAW and sRAW (2.5 MP), 14-bit A/D converter and 14-bit RAW, cross-type AF points for F5.6 or faster lenses, a larger and brighter viewfinder, interchangeable focusing screens, a larger LCD monitor (3.0") and faster continuous shooting (6.5 fps).
	EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM While this is an excellent ultra-wide zoom lens for analogue (film) SLR cameras, this lens is especially well suited for digital SLR cameras which usually have an imaging sensor size smaller than the 35mm format. When used with such digital SLR cameras these focal lengths can give an angle of view approximately equivalent to that of a 28-70mm lens used on a 35mm camera. The EF17-40mm f/4L USM has 12 lens elements arranged in 9 groups. Super Spectra Coating on the elements ensures excellent colour balance and minimises ghosting and flare. To provide superb image quality over a 17-40mm zoom range the lens uses three aspheric elements of two different types, while Super UD (Ultra-low Dispersion) glass is used to prevent the chromatic aberrations that can degrade the subject edge clarity.
	EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS L-series super telephoto zoom lens equipped with an Image Stabilizer. The fluorite and Super UD-glass elements largely eliminate secondary spectrum. The floating system also ensures high picture quality at all focal lengths. The Image stabilizer has two modes and it is compatible with Extenders 1.4x and 2x.