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This is definitely not a review since I haven't seen the 60D, but there are enough videos and reviews around that I can say one thing is still missing, real-time focus in Live View.

The major change to the camera from say the T1i or T12 or the 7D (main change is subjective I guess) is the swivel or what they like to call articulated LCD screen.

Yes, these screens have been around for ages on point and shoots, and at one point I even bought a P/S just for the swivel screen, but there were too many other issues with the camera... 

Anyway, the point is, that for a videographer, the swivel is really needed.  You go into movie mode, and pop the screen to a comfortable position and off you go.

But for a photographer, from what I've seen and read, you still don't have real-time focus with live view.  I also have no idea whether it heats up the way it does on my TI1.

Anyway, it's this delay in shooting when using Live View that is still a problem for a street photographer.  You still have three modes, just as you do with the TI1 and 2 etc. one mode works exactly like when you look through the viewfinder, but in order to use that mode the mirror must flip up and then down, or down and then up... whatever it makes a noise, and gives a delay of about 1 second. 

And then you've got the other two live view focus modes which don't need to flip the mirror, but they are both very very slow.

With my TI1, I have been using Live View like this:

Walking down the street, or standing on the corner, I figure out what I'm going to be focused on, and I go into live mode, press the Quick Focus Star button (that has changed to depressing the shutter halfway on the 60D which is nice) and from there on in I'm just walking or doing whatever until the shot is in frame, and then shutter is clicked.

And yes, it would be great for street or urban photography, especially when nothing is moving in the shot that you need to focus on; and I've always liked looking down, or sideways as a way of doing street shots; but that time it takes to use Quick Focus in Live View is still there.

I did find one interesting thing about Live View somewhere - that there's a custom function for setting the order of when curtains are flipped.  Frankly -- I'm not sure where I saw that - or whether it would help in doing street photography, and until I get my hands on the 60D I won't know.

So a trip to B&H will be coming up soon, and it won't be long before I can determine whether all these changes will make the swivel screen really useful for street shooting.  I have my fingers crossed that it will.  I really do.

For now, I'll stick with my TI1 which I really do like except for the lagtime during live view.

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Of course if you have one already and want to write about focusing in live view with the 60D - please - I'm sure there's a lot of us who want to know more about this feature.