One major bummer in the 20D is the shorter burst when shooting RAW, only 6 frames vs. 9 with 10D. I couldn't care less about speed with JPEGs.
OTOH, dpreview reports they got 36 frames at 5 fps rather than the advertised 23, using fine JPEG with 1GB SanDisk Ultra II card. That suggests the 20D has significantly faster CF write speed than the 10D, and that could offset the shorter burst length - actually I don't really care as much whether I can shoot more than 6 frames at full speed than about being able to shoot several short bursts without waiting too much in between. The slow CF writing speed of the 10D is a major pain.
Firstly, if you need speed, there's always the 1D Mark II. Secondly, there seems to be a trend of shooting less and less in RAW and more in JPEG. I have no hard data, it's just my impression of reading numerous web sites, forums and mailing lists.
The specs of the 20D, and the market they are trying to reach with it, makes a lot of sense.
What no-one seems to have mentioned is that the 20D does not have spot-metering (not surprising, though), but then again, maybe this was more of an issue on film SLRs.
-- - Marius
Having many exposure configurations is in the end not that necessary, and even less so with digital cameras. If you know how to meter, the center weighted system used by many manufacturers years ago was quite predictable, as is the fairly simple system used by Leica M cameras now. I would like spot metering, but with a digital camera it's fairly easy to live without.
Shutter lag reduction, increased write speed to CF cards, better autofocus (since the viewfinder will still be abysmal compared to any decent pre-autofocus SLR's, and hopefully at least adequate flash metering are the real advances in my view, and why I'll get one.
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