Good luck getting one, I remember the 10d's arrival (months late as seems to be the norm) in the states. Most places had it sold out/waiting listed for the first six weeks or so. I wasn't savy enough to sign up for a waiting list before hand and had to wait a bit to get mine.

a side note:
Lithium batteries should be the ticket for better cold weather performance (at least on regular automatic SLRs), which maybe very well what it is supplied with.

Do you know of any Minolta d-SLR camera? I've been told that I could use my SLR lenses on the digital

Diego,

I just checked dpreview.com. It doesn't appear as if Konica Minolta is going to release a d-SLR anytime soon. But they did annouced in Feb 2004 that they're going to release the DiMAGE A2 (8 mp) and a DiMAGE Z2 (3.87 mp) which are slr-like. It looks like an SLR, but the lens is not interchangeable.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04021 ... magea2.asp

If you don't have much invested in Minolta and adamant on getting a d-SLR, then it may be time to switch to either Nikon or Canon.

Diego/Joeyroo-
Minolta recently announced Maxxum 7 Digital. It is due this fall. Its specs look very promising. See the announcement <a href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04021220maxxum7digital.asp">here</a>

Gracias to both, Joeyroo and Misha

So are there many differences (aside weight and price) between a d-SLR and a digital camera if both have the same number of Mpixels? I refer to the quality of the photos

<i>So are there many differences (aside weight and price) between a d-SLR and a digital camera if both have the same number of Mpixels? I refer to the quality of the photos</i>

Great question, Diego. While Mpixels matter, there are many other factors that matter even more in your digital camera. Some of the key ones:
- Lense quality. While camera makers usually put decent glass into their prosumer digital cameras, you are still limited to their selection. With dSLR you can buy and change lenses as you wish. Yes, this is more expensive and bulky, but you will be amazed to see the difference in pictures taken with a good "embedded" prosumer lense, and a pro stand-alone lense. Of course, the biggest benefit of an interchangeable lense approach is that you can use all (or almost all) your old SLR lenses from the film world.
- Anti-aliasing, auto white-balancing, noise reduction and many other features are DRAMATICALLY improved in dSLR cameras over prosumer/point-and-shoot ones.
- Manual controls. If you are serious about taking pro-looking photos, sooner or later you'll have to switch from auto modes to manual (partially or exclusively). This will allow you to take more accurate exposures. Point-and-shoot cameras have very few manual controls. Prosumer have some. dSLR have many!

There is one more factor that is important for me personally, even though it does not impact the output image:
- Built quality. dSLR cameras (usually) feel solid and durable, while prosumer and point-and-shoot ones have that "cheap plastic" feel. Unfortunately this also means that dSLR cameras are usually much heavier than lower-end digital cameras. This is the price to pay for having a better camera.

Hope that it helps. Let me know if you have any other questions about the subject.

Yes, it helps me Misha, gracias but I have another question. Do d-SLR cameras weigh more than their equivalent SLRs?

<i>Do d-SLR cameras weigh more than their equivalent SLRs?</i>

Actually, dSLR cameras may be a bit lighter than comparable film SLR ones. Let's look at a couple of examples.

(without batteries and for the body only)
Nikon F100 = 785g vs. Nikon D100 ~ 700g
Canon 1V = 945g vs. Canon 10D = 790g

Gracias Misha, I'm thinking on buying the Minolta Maxxum 7 Digital camera when it's due but d-SLR are so expensive... Probably I'll buy it with another person or will change to a computer purchase

canon cameras rule

Misha, if you add the batteries to DSLR cameras they weigh more (tacking into consideration digital needs more energy, the set camera plus spare batteries for sure weights more than film ones)

fabrizio

fabrizior-
True in some cases (i.e. Nikon). However, the weight difference would be insignificant (~100g per battery set). Both pro-SLR and pro-dSLR would be pretty heavy at the end of the day .
Keep in mind that your regular SLR cameras also need some batteries for the light meter.

all my friends that are pro photographers use canon