Canon announces the 60D

Agreed, Gary. I am still holding on to my HF11 for long format stuff and when I absolutely need auto-focus while recording. Although, supposedly if I spend $300 on an SDXC card you can record up to 30 minutes. I don't know anyone who has bought one and tested that claim, however.

Dave, 30 minutes still isn't enough time. I don't own a DSLR yet but as I understand it no matter what card you use the camera is going to stop after 12 minutes and you'll need to restart it.

When shooting with a videocamera 90 - 99 of the time I never use auto focus. Normally I will zoom in and focus the camera then back out and everything stays in sharp focus

Actually, I have recorded 25 minutes on my T2i using the 640x480 crop mode. It depends on what size you are recording, bit-rate, etc... 12 minutes just happens to equal 1080p at 30 fps and the highest bitrate coming out to 4 gig (the max file size). Change that to 24 fps and you get 12.8 minutes. Leave the cap on your lens so you are just recording black frames with no movement and you get 28.4 minutes recorded.

On standard SDHC cards the FAT file system has a physical limit of 4 gig per file. But supposedly (I can't confirm it) the SDXC cards use the NTFS file system which has no such limit. The camera itself will stop recording at 30 minutes no matter what the settings (firmware limitation to prevent the EU from charging Canon the Camcorder tax rate which is higher than the Camera tax rate).

Adorama has the 60D in stock.

http://www.adorama.com/ICA60D.html?sid=1285162607893549&utm_source=rflaid64083&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Other&utm_term=Other