by Chris on December 28, 2010
The Canon EOS Rebel T1i DSLR Camera is the base level DSLR from Canon. This camera has lots of great options, and possibly some better features than its closely related sibling the Rebel T2i. Here are the basic features.
- - 15.1Mp CMOS Sensor
- - HD 1080p, 720p, and VGA Video Capture
- - 3″ Clear View LCD with Live View
- - DIGIC 4 Image Processor
- - ISO Expandable to 12,800
- - Compatible w/ 60-plus EF & EF-S Optics
So this camera offers you all the features of an SLR, especially fast shooting, and interchangeable lenses. It also doesn’t have a lot of features that more expensive cameras do, but honestly many of those are just fluff to make people that buy them feel better about their more costly purchase. Few people will be able to actually use the more advanced features that they pay for in those more expensive cameras.
This camera gets my vote over the Canon Revel T2i mainly over pixel density. My biggest beef with camera makes is that they regularly update what sounds cool rather than what actually would be useful. For example, more megapixels instead of more fps or better focusing. The problem with just throwing in more megapixels all the time is that they get smaller and smaller and the smaller they get the harder time they have still being high quality.
With that being said, the T2i and the T1i are pretty close overall, and I would opt for paying less for fewer megapixels and maybe get pictures that come out a bit nicer in the end. I will be testing these two cameras against each other though, hopefully soon, so I will give you a further report then!
For now I will just say that you may get a better deal overall in the cheaper canon Rebel T2i.
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by Chris on December 28, 2010
The Canon EOS Rebel T2i DSLR Camera is Canon’s newer consumer DSLR camera. It is aimed at people that want to have professional features, and the ability to do about anything the pros can but still be affordable at the cost of a few things they probably would never need or care about. This camera will probably be the next one that I get the chance to test out, and I am kind of excited because I have been overly focused on cameras like this or this for so long that I make things to complicated in my photography.
- 18.0 MP CMOS (APS-C) Sensor
- Full HD 1080p Video
- Advanced Live View
- 3.0″ 1.04 Million Dot Clear View LCD
- Up to 3.7 fps RAW, JPEG, or RAW+JPEG
- ISO 100-6400, Expandable to 12800
- 63-Zone Metering / 9-Point AF System
- Compatible with SD, SDHC, and SDXC
- Eye-Fi Menu Status Indicator Support
This camera has a lot of great features. Video, 18 MP, great ISO range, almost 4 fps shooting speed, small and lightweight size, and the SD card slot. Overall this camera is a great deal, especially if you don’t really need weather protection (who lets their camera sit in the rain anyway?), ultra fast shooting (yes 3.7 fps is fast, I mean like 8 or 10 fps), and a super fast focusing system (one that only very expereinced shooters would be able to even make use of, the focusing system in this baby is very good compared to almost any camera out there).
There are very few negatives to this camera. The people that find problems with this camera are likely just in need of a more advanced camera features and a much lighter wallet. You can do incredible things with this camera. The few things I listed above are likely the only real negatives about this camera and I honestly believe that very few photographers will ever be able to make use of those more advanced features in a more expensive camera. The only real difference for people going for the more expensive cameras will likely be not in the resulting pictures, but in their wallet!
So this camera gets my recommendation because it gives you more than enough features to keep many professional happy for a long time, at a price that probably won’t break anyone’s wallet who is trying to take photography a bit more seriously.
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