Looks like we have a successor to the 40D already:

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/cameras/Canon_50D.html

And a few more rumours RE the 5D replacement... billed for Late september ... again "apparently"

"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

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