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Summary: Great SLR digital camera
Review: This camera is easy to use and it is great that I can use my other Canon lenses with it. I have printed out quite a fw pictures that I have taken and they look great. I am very happy with this camera.
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Summary: Absolutely the best digital camera for the price
Review: Had this camera now almost 2 months, took over 1200 pictures. I had some enlarged to 12"x18" and there is no graininess in the pictures. I showed them to people and they thought they were absolutely beautiful. In order to get a "crystal clear" picture (like regular 35mm SLRs), you should always use a tripod, even if the shutter speed seems fast as I can tell the difference between using the tripod and not using it. Only that way will the pics look very sharp. I'm sure lots of these reviews say you see a soft look but if you use the tripod you will see sharp lines, etc. My 3 second waterfall pics look as good as any I've ever seen. I'm sure that the graininess will start to show larger than 12"x18". By the way, use the timer to get pics so you don't wiggle the camera when you push the button or buy the corded remote which works great as a timed "bulb" timer.As for the flash, well its not the best but for everyday snapshots it works fine. I suggest the 420EX by canon for a great flash. Plastic body isn't as good as the more expensive cameras but it is very hard plastic and feels extremely solid. The camera's lens that comes with it is good, not great but very capable for the extra cost of the camera. One of the drawbacks is the mirror instead of a prism in the more expensive cameras and also the mirror 'slap' seems louder and may cause more vibration, which could lead to less sharp pics. But I would say that is it. The camera is very formidible and I seriously recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Pretty darn good camera
Review: Previous digital camera is a Olympus Camedia 4.1 - it takes some very good pix and is quite rugged. Before purchasing the Canon Rebel-D I read over a dozen editorial reviews, many dozen(s) customer reviews and hundreds of newsgroup postings related to it. I read the manual, cover to cover, three times and reviewed specific pages many times. I visited three different retail outlets and handled the camera many times. I've now shot a few hundred test pix of a myriad of subjects using every camera setting available. Most were shot using the Canon EF 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens. A lot of the 'con' comments about the camera - white balance problems, dark flash problems, focus issues, etc - I have found to be user user specific. Don't blame the camera. I've printed differing sizes of prints on two different HP photo printers and have taken the files to four different retail print sources. With one exception the printed photos have been quite acceptable. (Kit's Camera at our local mall had a focus problem with their Dye-Sub printer. They assured me the tech would be called) If I could add just two missing features they would be the LCD preview and the flash exposure adjustment. The camera gets a thumbs-up here!
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Summary: Disappointing dynamic range
Review: I am disappointed by the poor dynamic range of the digital rebel. If the light on the subject is not uniform pictures are ruined by washout. Fujitsu models offer better dynamic range.
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Summary: Canon EOS Digital Rebel is tres fantastique!
Review: I had been drooling over this camera for months, and recently I was able to purchase it. In the area that I live the camera hadn't come in, and I was going to have to special order it. Luckily Best Buy saved the day and thus...this review. I have a great Pentax ZX-60 SLR that I have been using for quite some time (I love this camera as well) and had had a cheapo digital camera, so I was a little skeptical at how the digital rebel would perform. This camera has given me some awesome pictures in the few weeks that I have had it. Prior to owning this camera, I was considering becoming a professional photographer, and now I am truly hoping to become that. The only thing that bother's me about the camera, is that it didn't come with ANY internal memory. But, I talked my husband into getting the 1 gigabite compact flash card, so I am set. It would be disappointing to recieve and then have to go and buy a compactflash card just to see if the camera works. Another great feature of the camera is the rechargable ion battery. My prior digital camera took 2 AA batteries and sucked the juice out of them as quick as I put them in. I took 92 pictures the other day with the rebel, and the battery hasn't run down at all. One thing that I would recommend a buyer do would be to buy the camera bag that Canon has made to fit the digital rebel. It's sixty dollars, but it comes with a UV filter (which is great to protect the lens) and an extra rechargable battery! I could take a gazillion pictures with both of these batteries! Anyhow, I completely recommend this camera to anyone who has some knowledge of how to use a 35mm SLR camera. If you don't have the knowledge, the camera does have a point and shoot type mode, but why waste your money if you aren't going to use any of the super cool features that you are going to pay for??? J'adore le Canon Digital Rebel!!!
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Summary: 2nd review of Digital Rebel
Review: All I can say is that this camera rocks! My friend has a Canon EOS digital 10D and I can't tell any difference between the the two. In fact, I think the rebel has a better quality picture since the jpegs aren't quite as compressed but thats negligible. Night pictures are great. They are actually better than my elan 7e camera pics. This is the best camera under$1000. If you want something better, get a Canon Ds only if you can shell out $8000! This camera is the best value, and I DO KNOW DIGITAL cameras.
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Summary: An excellent camera!
Review: I am not going to get very technical, because I don't have the time. But this camera has got to be the best for it's price at this time! I have used a Canon S300 (Compact Digital) and a Fuji S602Zoom (SLR-like digital), Of coure bad comparison but this camera does blow both of them away! The picture quality is amazing, and the autofocus, although not perfect and super-fast, is the best I have experienced, and at this price range, probably the best around. The flash is great (since it's in-camera) but don't use it for anything more than in a small room! The best things about this camera are:
- Picture quality is excellent
- Autofocus is very responsive and 95% of the time super-accurate
- Manual functions are well-placed, and Automatic settings are very well designed.
- Interchangeable lens design gives this camera a creative advantage (it does take Canon EF lenses without a problem and will use Tamron lenses too, I bought a 28-200mm Tamron and it works like a charm) - Internal flash is very good for PnS stuff but if you want to get serious buy an external flash
- The Included 18-55mm lens is GREAT for small rooms or tight spaces, a real asset for anyone. I really recommend getting the camera with the lens because it's worth it. Be warned: it's the equiv of a 3x... to get Sony DSC-F828 performance, you will need to buy a 28-200mm lens.
- THE BATTERY: IT LASTS FOREVER. One camera where you don't HAVE to get an extra! Unless you do a LOT of flash photography in one day! Some cons though (hey, when they make a perfect camera I'll tell you!)
- THIS IS AN INVESTMENT: The price you pay now is not going to be the final tag. So far I have paid an extra $400 for the forementioned lens and $70 for a 256MB card. I would like to buy a external flash but I don't have the cash. It's gonna cost you a lot more, and the price tag might give some of you a stroke, but if you think INVESTMENT (like that all the extra equipment will be useable later), the dollar ammount will not look so big.
- The camera rattles if shaken hard, but according to some reviewers/insiders, that's the flash release mechanism, and so far it seems true (when the flash is deployed it does not rattle).
- Camera build is plastic, because of the cheaper price. Some things feel very fragile, like the lids to the CF and Camera compartments, but I have seen this in most of my camera equipment, and they seem to hold with care.
- It's an underperformer (shutter speed/slap noise/write speed/customizability, etc.) compared to the EOS 10D, but what can you expect? Canon still want's to sell both! And this is ENTRY LEVEL (at $1,000?) so I can understand the cheapening. I want to say one thing: If your camera does not Autofocus correctly or in a speedy fashion, return your camera for an exchange! Many of the problems discussed are probably manufacturing defects, which happens with ANY product. Just make sure to take it back so there are no problems and say it's defective. The short: THIS CAMERA ROCKS!!! If you have $1,000+ to spend on it...
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Summary: Fast and Fun
Review: My wife and I recently decided to take the plunge into the "digital" photography world, but we were really concerned with losing the functionality for special shots that we had with our old Canon AE. The Digital Rebel was exactly what we were looking for! Talk about functionality. This camera does more than we could have ever hoped for in a digital unit. It's easy to manipulate, and is lightning fast. No waiting for the shutter and missing that important candid shot. The images are clear and crisp and download to the PC (or straight to the printer) in seconds. The ability to cary one camera that does it all from close ups, to portraits, to landscapes and sports shots is wonderful. With a 512MB CF card, you can hold over 150 high quality photos at once (over 200 at reduced levels). No worries with having to sort the good from the bad now. Just snap away and sort them out later.
Now we are simply waiting for a telephoto zoom lens and we will have all the still photo capablility we need in one handy little bag. Yes, it's a bit pricey, but well worth every penny!
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Summary: Excellent Pro-sumer camera but...
Review: When I saw a digital SLR below $1k for the body I knew I was going to buy one. A friend of mine has the 10D and loves it (he's a pro) so I bought the Rebel. I'm very happy with the camera. It works exactly as advertised, but most of the time I use it as a point and shoot type camera. That being said it's not the best point in shoot camera. I always seem to be adjusting something to get the picture the way I want it. Maybe that's the way SLR's are? My Kodak DC265 is a much better point in shoot type camera (remember back when the DC265 use to be a pro-sumer camera?). However, the ease of use and speed of the camera I believe makes up for it's short comings as a point and shoot camera (which it's not intended to be anyway). BTW I have the Canon 28-105mm II USM lens on mine. I find myself wanting a wide angle lens and occasionally a macro lens.
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Summary: Could not find sharpness
Review: I tried. I really tried. Circuit City has a pretty poor return-to-exchange program for cameras, 14 days!??! and it took me longer than that to find out that my camera has AF problems. You don't have to look very far on the net to see that a *significant* fraction of Canon 300D and 10D camera buyers are finding that the cameras do not always produce sharp pictures. For those so stricken, it is a toss up whether the picture they are about to take will have focus at the right spot, or the wrong spot, or be overall much too soft ("soft" is too kind - shot through a vaseline coated lens is almost a better description). Such a life is miserable. If you can't trust your camera, then photography becomes torture. The camera and lenses are clearly capable of sharp pictures, I have a number that came out, but I could not rely on it. Buying more lenses in an effort to get around or test the problem just sunk me into a black hole of expenditure and confounded me further as the camera refused to obey any consistent pattern of misbehavior. User error you say? I'm not some point and shooter who has never seen an SLR before, nor someone from film who is pleased with 4x6" prints that look sharp. I've used an F707 for a year and bad digitals before that, and good SLRs before that as well. I know an out of focus picture when I see one! I know canon tends to slightly blur even perfectly focused pictures to achieve a "naturalistic" look, but that is not the problem I saw. I saw that AF point of focus was not repeatable, that AF strips were much too big, that spot AF was if anything less accurate that auto-AF, and on top of that, if the camera did the right thing, then Canon zoom glass was a pretty poor show at 6 megapixels unless you worried constantly about aperture and extreme zooms. On top of all this I read (but do not care) that the camera has exposure issues when using the flash, and have the white balance on "auto" is worse than useless unless it is a sunny day. Lastly, the camera went through a phase when its firmware ate entire sub-folders of pictures on my 1gb CF card. Unfortunately, after reading about others with focus and softness issues with the Canon 10D (which shares basically the same sensor and system as the 300D) I had no confidence that Canon would acknowledge there was a problem with my example or a problem with the model, and no interest in waiting weeks in the hope they might be nice. So I sold the lot, at a ridiculous loss, and am retiring to lick my wounds and wait until Canon sorts out its production line quality control problems or is exposed for making a camera that does not have tolerances up to its megapixels. It is obscene for Canon to suggest that anyone who wants to see accurate focus down the pixel level at a mere 6mp spend thousands on "L" series lenses, or thousands on the 1D. Good luck on your purchase, maybe you'll get one that can AI focus correctly and does not suffer the problems I saw. Or perhaps if you're coming from cheap digitals or from basic film you won't notice the problems, and are the ideal customer for Canon! I'm missing my F707 badly and waiting for the next round of those types of cameras before getting back. Or perhaps I'll pickup a second-hand F717 while people trade up to the F828. A digital SLR is nice for action shots, the mirror slap sound is cool (although does it add to camera shake?), but the cost of glass and the amount of equipment necessary for decent shots is extraordinary.
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