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Xsi Rebel - Great Macros... Poor Medium To Long Range Autofocus
I picked up this camera two weeks ago at a local store. Overall, it's a solid camera. Color reproduction is wonderful, it's quick, low noise with high ISO, and terrific macros. The camera is blazing fast. Please refer to the other posters for the good points of this camera.
Now I'll discuss the shortcomings. The major one, which has been referenced to in various forums such as dpreview and a few online review sites is poor Auto Focus. Not all cameras are affected, but mine was. If you shoot at an object from w/in 10 ft, it has trouble over 50% of the time picking up the autofocus point and often selects the wrong point. If you use center focus, it gets pretty close but final image is still a bit blurry. It becomes a bit sharper w/ the live view autofocus system. When I took some outdoor pics of some animals, I couldn't quite lock on what I was interested in. Even when taking shots of people outside w/ a prominent background, it seems to have trouble deciding if it wants to focus on the person or the background. I'd say that 20% of my shots were actually in focus and those look wonderful. The remaining ones had the focus off. So I'm gonna send my camera to canon for repair. I went to best buy and tried out a 40D and the focus was rock solid. If you get a good camera, kodus to u.
XSi Rebel - Are You Looking For a Good DSLR that Does Not Break the Bank?
I sold my beloved Nikon D70 after four years of use. I still miss it. I purchased a D40, but it never felt right. Picture quality was good, better than the D70, but I had to go through menus to do most everything (changing white balance, ISO, formatting the card, you name it), whereas the D70 had dedicated buttons. That makes all the difference in usability. Besides, the D40 does not even autofocus with my beloved 50mm 1.8 lens. Are you kidding me? I returned the D40 after 3 days of use.
I was lookind at the D80, 40D, the D300, the XTI, and this one. All good cameras (at the end of the day, they all take excellent pictures). it's the usability/sweet price/new features factor that counts. 40D and D300 are expensive for me (not a pro). The XTI is getting old (still good though, and very good price). The D80 is very good, a bigger brother of my beloved d70, but still old: no sensor cleaning, to highlight tone priority, does not ship with a bundled VR lens. You are basically buying a 2006 camera in 2008. I did not like that.
I found this XSi Rebel at Circuit City. It felt right in my small hands. It had most of the buttons I need to make changes quickly. I still have to go to a menu to set my custom white balance (the D70 had a button for that). Same thing to format the card (button combination on the D70). Auto ISO is not as smart as Nikon's implementation. Other than that, the camera is excellent. All the other buttons are there. It has an RGB histogram (very important; it lets you see if you are clipping individual colors). Picture quality is great. Very little noise (Canon's CMOS sensor is cleaner than Nikon's CCD on the D80), very pleasing skin tones (I take lots of pictures of my daughter and wife).
If the D80 had the same 2008 features as this one (highlight tone priority, self-cleaning sensor, bundled VR lens), I would have gotten that one. It's still a great camera. This one is just a 2008 camera with features found in the semi-pro 40D and the pro 1DS.
I'm very happy with it.
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Should I go for a DSLR or a Canon powershot sx200 IS?
So I'm thirteen years old, and I would really love to get more serious about photography. I've had quite a few digital compact cameras, FUJIFILM, kodak, all that jazz. However I was never satisfied without my canon. Probably a deal breaker on a camera would be for it to have a macro setting. I'm currently using a fairly older Model, the Canon powershot a460, that I purchased about 3 years ago, its not the most attractive but I absolutely love it. Im pretty much set on canons and my budget is about 600 dollars, but anything cheaper would of course be wonderful (:
I was thinking the sx200, because the zoom looks phenomenal, and its fairly compact which makes it look easy to carry around with me. If I were to go for a DSLR, I was thinking something like the Canon rebel XS, that comes with a lens. So what I'm wondering if its worth buying a DSLR?
Oh and PS: I use my camera often, so any camera wouldn't go to waste.
Thanks a lot!!
There's no comparison really. One is a compact point & shoot camera with a small sensor and the other is a dSLR with a large sensor.
A camera with a large sensor will always be better than a camera with a small sensor.
In the SX200 IS's favour....ummm, 12x optical zoom. But, it's definitely not one of Canon's better compact cameras when it comes to image quality. One of it's dumbest features is the flash. It pops up as soon as you turn the camera on, and stays up until you turn the camera off, whether you need the flash or not.
In the XS's favour...everything, but the 12x optical zoom. You can buy it with the kit lens (which has IS) and once you know what focal lengths or styles of photography you prefer...you could think about buying a new lens or two. A good lens (especially a zoom lens) doesn't come cheap, though.
An excellent and very cheap prime lens (one focal length) is the EF 50mm f/1.8. It costs less than US$100. I'd highly recommend it. It will allow you to shoot in low light and is perfect for portraits, etc. For good macro shots, you need a Macro lens, because you just can't get great Macro shots using the Macro setting on your camera.
good luck...and don't forget that you need to use the viewfinder on a dSLR to compose your shots, which is a lot better than holding your camera out at arm's length to take a shot.
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