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Summary: I love it!
Review: We have a smaller digital camera, and an SLR camera. how wonderful to combine the two! this camera may have a few exra perks that we may not use, but we have already seen a huge difference in the quality of our pictures! we've only had this camera for 10 days!
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Summary: Excellent choice for novice or advanced photographers
Review: I've had the camera for two weeks and it has taken fantastic shots indoors and outdoors in various lighting conditions. Novices should consider this camera. It is easy to use with settings for auto, portrait, landscape, macro, sport and more. When you gain knowledge, you have full manual control. Unless you already have Canon EF lenses, buy the camera with the 18-55mm lens. It is a good choice and will get you started at a fantastic price. The portrait mode is great. It will focus on your subject with a wide appature that will blur the background. The lanscape mode does just the opposite. My foliage shots this year taken with this camera are the best I have ever captured. I have shot over 200 images without needing to change batteries, but I keep a spare with me. There is no compact flash card provided with the camera. You will want to get a large one, 512mb or more. If you take a few pictures while on vacation, this is not the camera for you. If photography is your hobby, then get this camera now. You will not regret it.
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Summary: break trough digital slr camera
Review: Have had the camera for 3 weeks. I already owned canon lenses and a flash. for those complaining or concerned about money that has to be spent on lenses,well thats the fundamental question of is a camera with interchangalbe lens right for you.
Pros: No delay in taking pics. 2.5 fps. 6.3 MP. Interchangable lens. I found focusing to be perfectly accurate and fast. recomend disabling the 7 point focusing, and switch to center, with recomposing picture. as for those complaining that pictures arenot Sharp or lively, that is a function of two things. First the lens being used. the stock lens is good, but not great. A little slow. I took a lot of pictures with an 80 dollar 50 mm, f 1.8 lens, including in candle light, and bright day light, and the results are amazing. second thing is processing of the pictures. the camera has 3 preset processings for "sharpness" and saturation and contrast, as well as 3 custom ones, so you can make your pics as sharp, saturated, and contrasty as you desire. learn to use to camera. I found the camera to be excellent up to iso setting of 800, ,with minimal noise, with better quality than film camer. I also like the palstic construction. its lighter, and nicer to carry. You cant use the lcd as a viewfinder, which I never used, cause it eats your battery and never works well in bright light.
Cons: Auto white ballance is useless in low light, and indoor ligt situations. that needs to be manually set.
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Summary: EOS Digital Rebel - Worth Every Penny!
Review: I have been an amateur photographer for over 25 years and started out with a Pentax K1000 SLR. Things have changed a lot in that time and the Digital Rebel (300D) was a welcome addition to my photography arsenal. My last film camera was a EOS Rebel XS and I have two lenses (35-80 and 75-300). I was seriously considering the 10D, but at $...without a lens, it was a little more than I was willing to spend. I must say I was elated when I saw the Digital Rebel had been released and for $1000 with a lens. I did quite a bit of comparing between the 10D and the Rebel and there just wasn't enough difference to warrant the extra $...for me. If you are a professional, I would go with the 10D for the added control, but for the rest of us, the Rebel can do everything the former does it just requires a little more work to get there. The image quality is outstanding. I also have an Olympus C-2020 point and shoot and I would say in the Full Auto mode, the Rebel is just as easy to use as the 2020. Getting the desired results in the Program and Manual modes has a little learning curve to get the desired result but it's in there and after playing with it I have been able to get what I want.
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Summary: Da Bomb
Review: I've had my digital rebel for 2 weeks I can't put it down!!
I love this camera, this is my first canon, right out of
box I was takin great shots. You'll need the BG-E1 battery
grip (1000 shots no flash) . This is my forth digital camera
this year, I think I got A keeper........
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Summary: Incredible Camera
Review: I had been holding out for a digital camera for years (...)Then I decided to visit my local camera store and they had the Digital Rebel. After the first few shots I was hooked.I decided to purchase the Rebel and am so happy I did. The pictures are amazing. Even if you don't know anything about photography, your pictures will turn out amazing. The camera just performs well. The other neat thing is that they optimize the output for digital printing--so you don't have to spend a lot of time tweaking your photo in Photoshop like the pros. I only shoot JPEG Fine and everybody I show the photos to are absolutely amazed with the results. The stock lens is a great match for the camera. It will shoot macro for objects about 5" away. In fact, I took a picture of my computer screen from about 5" away and when I zoom in, I can see each individual red, green, and blue pixel. Outdoor shots turn out great and people shots are just awesome. I can not say enough good things about this camera. The autofocus is also incredibly fast. Make sure you get a fast memory card. I purchased the Sandisk Ultra II 512MB and it performs very well. Write time for largest format JPG:
Canon 32MB CF card ~ 10 seconds
Sandisk Ultra II ~ 1-2 seconds Image browsing on the camera is also a lot faster with the Ultra II card. (...) You will love it.
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Summary: breakthru in digital camera technology
Review: After all the press hype & the tech reviews, I bought one. AND yes it is really true. This IS an SLR but it is digital. It combines just about all the advantages of both, with very few of the disadvantages of either. It is hard to believe (after owning 2 digitals and 3 chemical slrs!), that this is really true. I will not go into details - ... What is soo great compared to the usual digital cams: enormous low noise sensitivity - even to ISO 800; enormous exposure flexibility and composure accuracy; fantastic lens choice; and a BRIGHT non digital SLR exposure composition screen- works in sunlight - its an SLR! There is NOTHING on the market that compares for the price. Buy one! 16/10/03: Just did a comparison between poster size enlargements of images from my Canon EOS 500 (chemical SLR) and my new EOS 300d. Very similar quality at poster size!! There is a difference between graininess (chemical) and pixellation (digital). Overall the subjective quality of fine details at hi res is amazing similar. But all the digital advantages rest with the 300d!! The chemical SLR (35mm) is now dead!
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Summary: Amazing Pictures, Amazing Value
Review: Been into photography since I was 14 years old. Went from film SLR to digital P&S 4 years ago, have owned two casio digital cameras (1997-1999) and a prosumer Kodak DC4800. I finally decided to jump into the DSLR market and did a months worth of reading reviews and comments. Finally bought one and I love it. Amazing Picture, great features, and definately more affordable than the higher up models (10D and 1D). Worth every penny.
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Summary: An amazing camera for the $$
Review: Having worked my way up through the digital camera point & shoots, to this camera, it is great to be back using an SLR again. The images are absolutely wonderful, great color, low noise, nice saturation. All in all I'm very satisfied with this peice of marvelous technology...
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Summary: A Pioneer Digital SLR
Review: Pros: great pictures outdoors, great price, real SLR power and flexiblity
Cons: 2 stops underexposure indoors; 24 bit color depth;soft body It can be fairly said that Canon is in a pioneer position in the digital SLR space. Not to mention that the Canon 1Ds is the real revolutionary Pioneer camera. Then six months later, the Canon 10D came out, almost shocked the professionals and the amatuers alike with the quality, power and price. Now comes the Digital Rebel, with the same 6.3 megapixel as the 10D, but mounted on a Rebel body. In terms of the specifications, the Digital Rebel is only different from the 10D in two aspects, one is the 24 bit color depth vs. 36 bit in 10D, the other is the 2.5 frame per second of continous shooting for 4 frames, vs. 3 fps of 9 shoots in total in 10D. All other functions are all the same, including 30 to 1/4000 second shutter speed, 7 sensor focus screen and the same Canon new DIGIC image processor. But to my surprise, the Digital Rebel is at least two stops underexposure when shooting indoors. Espeicially, when shooting dark colored subjects, the exposure is extremely difficult to set right. I tried to use a 550EX external flash, and set the flash compensation to 1 2/3 overexposure when shooting my mahogany piano made by Hallet Davis Inc of Boston, and the exposure compensation is 1 stop overexposure, shutter speed was 1/60, aperture F 3.5. The result is still quite dark.
Other than this, when shooting outdoors the pictures are truely great.
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