• 6.3 Million Pixels
• Magnesium Alloy Body
• New LCD Monitor
• New 7 Point Auto Focus System
• Official FAT 32 Support (2GB Card)

EOS 10D boasts a new seven Point AF system.  This provides a wider AF coverage, much faster and more accurate AF which works well at lower light levels. This is a significant and noticeable improvement. AF assist lamp removed / flash strobes.

The EOS-10D now supports playback magnification up to 10x with full horizontal and vertical panning and browsing while magnified, very useful for checking focus on a series of shots. Note that the magnify controls have now been moved to the AE Lock and AF point buttons.

Just like all the new PowerShot digital cameras the EOS 10D now has an orientation sensor which records the orientation of the camera (90 degrees left, landscape, 90 degrees right) in the file header. This data can be used to rotate the images out of the camera and also display them in the correct orientation in playback.

EOS 10 D has a new LCD monitor, it is noticeably brighter with five levels of brightness control.   Kelvin selectable White Balance and just like it's bigger brothers the EOS-1D and EOS-1Ds the EOS-10D has a new 'K' white balance position which can be preset to any color temperature between 2800 K and 10000 K (100 K steps).

The LCD status panel has been redesigned to accommodate the horizontal layout of the settings buttons.  There now a dedicated LCD backlight button.

Although the EOS 10D has a new design to the camera body it still supports the BG-ED3 battery grip, which provides a vertical grip and controls as well as dual battery slots.

Canon has been promoting their DiGiC processor which was first introduced on the Canon G3 and S45.  The same processor is now utilized in the 10D, which promises lower power consumption, faster processing and better image quality.

Because the EOS 10D utilizes the new DiGiC processor it also automatically gets support for Compact Flash cards greater than 2GB in size which require the use of the FAT32 file system.

The EOS 10D maintains three frames per second shooting speed like the D60 but now can buffer nine images in a burst, one more that the D60.

Now the 10D sensor can be cleaned in the sensor cleaning mode with a freshly charged battery as well as with the now optional AC adapter.

With the new feature of the White balance bracketing which was introduced on the EOS 1D, you can take a series of three shots of up to +/- 3 steps white balance adjustment.

The EOS-10D restores the full sensitivity range of the original EOS-D30 providing a range of ISO 100 to 1600. Additionally there is also a 'H' setting which is equivalent to ISO 3200, although it can only be accessed after enabling it through a custom function. 

The EOS-10D also gets another feature from the EOS-1D/1Ds, that is the ability to register an AF point and quickly switch back to that point by pressing the dedicated registered AF button (assist button) beside the AE Lock button on the back of the camera. 

In the new AI Focus mode the camera will automatically switch from One Shot AF to AI Servo AF if the focus locked subject begins to move. In addition the EOS-10D has improved AI Servo which can cope with a subject moving at 50 kph (31 mph) just 8 meters (26 ft) away.

Canon has tweaked the metering algorithm used in the 10D to provide more consistent exposure results.  Also seen on the EOS 1D and the 1Ds the TV/AV safety shift when enabled will automatically adjust the selected shutter speed in TV mode or aperture AV mode if the camera decides that the shot would be badly overexposed.

The EOS-10D gets support for direct printing to compatible Canon printers such as the CP-10 and CP-100 Dye-Sub or S530D and S830D Bubble Jet printers.

The EOS-10D now has a dedicated flash off scene mode, in this mode the flash is not used (apart from AF assist if required) and sensitivity is automatically adjusted between ISO 100 and 400. 

The EOS 10D now has PTP (Picture Transfer Portocol) compliant USB 1.0, now the camera will be recognized by most modern operating systems without the need of a dedicated driver.