Quote (Chantal7 @ Mar 20 2010 10:55pm)
I currently use the REBEL XTI. From my experience, I can tell you the pros/cons of it!
CANON REBEL XTI
Cons
- It only goes up to 1600 ISO (wish it could go higher). Using the highest ISO sometimes gets you a really noisy picture, especially in dark pictures. I found it frustrating.
- If you like the whole LCD Display thing, this camera does not have it. You have to look through the view finder, like many other cameras, to take the picture. I also kind of missed this feature, but I got used to the viewfinder as well.
- When using the built in flash in a dark room, such as glow bowling or at night, it likes to flash a lot to find it's focus, and then it flashes AGAIN to take the picture. This is frustrating if you do not have an external flash to use instead. Who wants to be blinded, in the dark, by this lightning storm? A flash was the second thing I bought for my camera.
- Those are about the only things I dislike about it so far, but I am quite happy with it nonetheless
Pros
- It's great for beginners, I learned a lot from it
- It's Canon?
- I don't know ... I like it other than those couple of reasons! It's a camera, it does what it's supposed to do
Chantal:
No disrespect to you or Canon but high ISO is overrated. About 10-% of the photography population actually NEEDS high ISO. These are sports, action shoots, surveillance which often happens at night and other such specialty applications. Not sure why so many marketing men push "high ISO" just as the "megapixel war" is full of shit too ...
Most professionals choose to employ lighting in some form and when they want the light to blend, they just lower their shutter to match the ambient so that it's near indistinguishable. This allows the use of a lower ISO which ALWAYS equates to a better photo than a high ISO no flash picture.
Of course, there are a thousand scenarios. In fact many high end cameras made by Leica and the new Mamiya MF camera only shoots up to somewhere around iso 1000.
An fyi, many cameras, probably most cameras pre-flash to find focus when using the pop-up. So while it's listed as a con here it likely will be in just about any brand one decides on.
I hear more about Canon [lack of] quality control than any other, but mostly in some of their high end cameras. But still. Saying it's Canon is comparable to saying "it's a BMW?" ... yeah they are nice, but they ARE NOT the only option and they are subject to recalls like everyone else. One may be impartial to the BMW but the Lexus may have a better performance record or Lexus may put out a sleeker looking model. One should not choose a camera based on the lettering on the outside of the box but on the specs of the camera and if getting into photography should actually be researching different systems of cameras to gain some understanding, knowledge and a better sense of what they want. When I decided on a camera outfit, I researched ALL the major and almost major brands. I knew that just because Canon had the highest sales, followed by Nikon didn't mean they offered the best or what I wanted. I just knew instinctively, as a business person, that there marketing and positioning in the market was the best and largely responsible for their popularity,(every manufacturer today can make a good camera). They have a higher marketing budget and many camera mags cater to them because the mags survive by their checks received from these big companies.
This article is how I go about purchasing.
http://bitsofdata. blogspot. com/2009/12/7-tips-for-purchasing-camera-equipment.html
Again, no disrespect as I know this forum is first a Canon biased forum and next a Nikon biased forum ... but I wanted to weigh in and hopefully instill an objective look.
This post was edited by Solarves on Mar 21 2010 09:11am