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Summary: WOW!
Review: I read every available review before purchasing this camera. I knew it was good, but didn't know how good until I got it in my hands. All I can say is wow!! I've been using Olympus digitals for about 5 years and have been very happy with their cameras. My most recent was the C-50. I did own a Rebel GII, which took great pictures using film. This Digital Rebel goes beyond that. I was amazed at the colors & the sharpness of the pictures. I'm not the best photographer in the world, but this camera makes me feel like one. I haven't taken a bad shot yet. The camera does have some weight to it, but it works to your advantage because there is less shaking when taking pictures. Also, you HAVE to look through the viewfinder to compose your shot-not the LCD screen. You can take 4 consecutive pictures w/o any delay, love that for action shots. The first time the flash popped up scared me, but you get used to it. I have yet to find anything wrong with this camera. The controls are easy to navigate, menu is easy to see. It even rotates your pictures for you.
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Summary: Order Trouble
Review: From what I can see, this is an excellent camera, though I would not know... I don't have one. I tried to order one... listed at $500 dollars... I guess it's like they say... if it seems too good to be true. I ordered it... a confirmation screen appeared saying my order would be shipped within 2 business days. But I received no confirmation email and the item did not appear in my recently ordered section... so I contacted the seller and she said she never received my order and no longer has the camera. What's up Amazon? I try to contact you via email and get no reply... and as of today... the $500 Digital Rebel is still listed. I detect an obvious drop-off in your ability to properly fill these orders.
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Summary: Buy this camera...you won't be sorry!
Review: I promised myself that as soon as SLR digitals got below $1000, I'd get one. I saw this at Best Buy and bought it on the spot. (Should have waited and bought on Amazon cheaper). This camera rocks. I've used several so called "point and shoot" digital cameras by Olympus and Nikon and this one is much easier to use. Auto focus is amzingly fast and accurate. Auto flash detection. Swapable lenes with my older film Rebel. Battery lasts me well over 150 shots on one charge. Amazing picture quality. Do not spend $500-$600 on some lower end digital camera with a fixed lens. This is the real deal. Look at the reviews...perfect! This will be the last digital you'll ever need unless you go pro. Buy it, Buy it, Buy it.
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Summary: Beginners only my ...!
Review: The one dissenting opinion in these reviews was obviously written by an "uninformed person". This is far from a "Just for beginners" camera. I've been shooting 35MM SLRs for over 30 years and digital for over 5 years. This is the first affordable digital SLR... ever!... While it certainly lacks features compared to it's brothers the 1D and 1Ds and 10D, it is a worthy SLR digicam which is light years beyond anything in it's price class. Buy this camera with confidence. It will be a classic. Ignore the reviewer who gives no supporting evidence for his assertions. Sure you can pay 2 to 10 times as much and get a DSLR that is better, but do you really need it? This camera is perfect for 90% of DSLR users. Many of us are NOT beginners by a long shot!! There are plenty of professional photographers using older and less feature packed film cameras and probably shooting better pics than that reviewer!
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Summary: Finally!! Prints that look as good as film prints!!
Review: It finally happened! 3 megapixel, 4 megapixel, 5 ... Now 6.3 and I can finally stop buying digital cameras. With the combination of this camera and my Epson Stylus Photo 960 printer, I'll never have to go the local "photomat" any more. That's not to say my most recent digital camera (Canon S50) didn't take great pictures, but they still needed a bit of a touch up and lightening to make them look OK for a final print. This camera changes all of that. I've taken a number of pictures with this camera and with the PIM plug-in in my Adobe Photoshop Elements software, I just print them out without the need to touch them up at all. I'm a beginner when it comes to photography and I can't give you all of the technical mumbo-jumbo about all the features of the camera, all I can say is that it takes fantastic pictures! However, there were a few things that kept me from giving it 5 stars which I think I need to share, especially if you're a beginner (like me), or even a novice... ** It's a rather large camera. If it's going to be a camera that you're going to take to a party or even a sporting event, it will be a bit bulky to carry around. ** Unlike most other digital cameras today, the screen on back is only for reviewing the pictures. You can't use it as a viewfinder to take a picture. You have to look through the eyepiece. ** The built in flash is pretty much of a waste. It's not strong enough get a good picture in a dimly lit room, and it blows out your subject in a close up of a small item. You really need to get a speedlite for this camera. ** There is a bit of a learning curve. Not all pictures come out top notch with the "Auto" setting. I'm still getting some pictures that are sharp in the front, and blurry in the rear. It's been tricky to figure out how to position the 7 auto-focus "points" that are in the viewfinder. I'm sure it's just something I need to learn but by no means is this just a "point and shoot" camera. ** This sub-$1000 dollar camera can easily turn into a "thousands of dollars" camera. There are a seemingly endless amount of lenses that are available for different things such as macro lenses for extreme close-ups (there is no macro mode on the camera, you need to buy a "macro lens" for macro shots), or wide angle and telescopic lenses. Some of these lenses cost more than the camera itself. A good quality speedlite will be another couple hundred bucks, at least. Then you'll need a good case to carry it in, some extra memory cards, and an extra battery or two. Of course, all of these things are optional, but to get the most out of the camera, you will need to spend some additional money. All of that aside, I'm still keeping my Canon S50 for it's small size, point and shoot features, and excellent picture quality. But for the times that I want unsurpassed fantastic picture quality, I'll never need to use another film camera again. I don't care if they come out with a 50 megapixel camera tomorrow, there is simply NO WAY the naked eye is going to see better picture quality than what this camera puts out. Now if I can just figure out all the features ... :)
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Summary: Great review but list price is ***BOGUS***
Review: This is a great camera and a great deal. But Amazon is full of it. They try to fool you into thinking you are getting 35% off the list price. In fact, Canon advertises the list price at $999, the same price that Amazon sells it for. They improperly show the list price at well above this to fool you into thinking you are getting a discount. Dont get me wrong, the camera is worth $999, but you are not saving a single penny from ordering from this site!
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Summary: Can it really be this easy!!
Review: For about a month now, I've been reading all the reviews for the Digital Rebel. I was finding hard to believe that a camera can be that easy to use. I have a Rebel GII that was pretty easy and I got excellent shots with. I took the plunge and purchased the DRebel and all I can say is WOW!!! The camera is quick and relatively quiet. The first time the flash popped up I jumped, but you get used to it. I am replacing an Olympus C-50, which is an excellent camera. The camera does have some weight to it, but to me that's a good thing. I like using the viewfinder to take the picture and of course you get to see the results afterwards. The firmware in the camera is very easy to upgrade (which I already did). The software the camera ships with is pretty easy to use. My only complaint is that it doesn't come with a CF card. It should at least come with a small one to get you started immediately.
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Summary: A great DigiCam at a great price.
Review: I immediately put my Rebel through it's paces when I got it. I have to say, it's a dang good camera that takes dang good pictures. I work for a newspaper and submit photos to other papers, so I take alot of images. I have been surprised at the clarity and quality of the images I get out of this camera. I was photographing a swimmer today, which takes a certain amount of quickness to get a good image. I was blown away by a couple of the images I got. The autofocus hunts a bit sometimes, but you can turn it to manual so no problem. The exposure control is the only thing I would recommend they work on, even though I haven't had a problem with it. The EFS lens you get with the camera is not to shabby. I paired mine up with 420ex flash with a wireless transmitter and the vertical battery grip for more shooting time. The transmitter worked well for spooky shots at Halloween. I also recommend at least a couple 256mb flash cards. They will hold around 130 large normal images, which is decent. Anyhow I highly recommend this camera. I love shooting with it. It's a great main or backup camera.
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Summary: Good quality, easy to use, decent features
Review: I'm enjoying this camera. It certainly offers great value for the dollar. It probably offers the right number of features and full user controllability. I've never used a camera in which ISO and exposure are so easily and quickly modified for each shot. Considerably smaller cameras do have larger LCD displays, though you don't need the LCD to view your subject. I wonder why, since many camcorders offer a "night shot" option, Canon could not also include that on this camera. I also miss the high speed connection that is standard on many camcorders. (Firewire, and now new Firewire 800, are faster than USB 1/2.) I recommend buying one of Canon's better accessory flash units. You can purchase many Canon EF lenses very inexpensively that work fine with this camera, especially the telephotos since they don't suffer from the edge clarity drop off that older lenses can produce on digital cameras. Perhaps it is better to wait for the newer wide angles. The lens that comes with the Rebel is fine. For years Consumers Reports has surveyed readers and found that Canon camcorders are among the worst in reliability. Since technology has moved both cameras and camcorders to digital, one hopes that the same problem doesn't afflict Canon cameras like this one.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Highly recommend this camera. The Sony DSC828 inspired me to take a fresh look at digicams. I'm glad I didn't wait for it to become available. What makes the quality of the D100 shots so much better than digicams? I believe the #1 reason is the size of the sensor (the digital "film"). For example, the sensor in the Digital Rebel is 22.7mm by 15.1 mm. The sensor in the up and coming Sony is only 8.8mm by 6.6mm. That means that they have to pack all of the sensors in that much smaller of an area. The result of the much smaller sensors is noise- random colored dots in darker areas of the picture. I've owned the camera for two weeks and on top of the nice lens that comes with it I purchased the Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 Macro Super II lens (Sigma # 507101). This is one heck of a combination and I am so happy I've spent the extra money for this camera and lens. My wife even loves the pictures. She suggested we skip going to that portrait studio at the mall for Christmas cards this year and do it ourselves. Taking the $60 out of those people's hands was worth the purchase price alone! :) Some people claim the plastic body feels cheap. I think it does feel plastic, but does not feel cheap. I've never owned a metal bodied camera so I guess I can't claim I like one or the other better. But the body is certainly light. If I had one negative, I don't much care for the built in flash. It tends to be on the dark side and cause red-eye since it's too close to the lens. I bought a cheap Vivitar 2000 flash from wal-mart for $20 and I have to say it does a very good job. In the future I'll get a canon TTL flash.
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