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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT 8.0 Megapixel
| Product Description For convenience, ease of use and no-compromise SLR performance, look no further than the EOS Digital Rebel XT. Featuring Canon's Digital Trinity - an 8.0 Megapixel CMOS sensor, Canon's own DIGIC II Image Processor and compatibility with over 50 EF Lenses-the new Digital Rebel XT has an all new lightweight and compact body, improved performance across the board and the easiest operation in its class, simplifying complex tasks and ensuring the perfect shot every time. With intuitive simplicity, powerful performance and unprecedented affordability, the Rebel XT is the EOS digital camera for everyone.
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Top Reviews  The EOS Digital Rebel makes shooting easy and funReview created: 09/22/05 by:  428 of 464 people found this review helpful. I bought my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT on eBay ~4 months ago as an upgrade from my Canon digital ELPH. WOW. Its been hard to put it down. Everything about this camera is right on: the weight, the feel, the LCD, the shutter speed, the size, the quality, the interface, etc. Not to mention – I got a killer price on eBay that saved me $250+ from my local camera shops…. Enough that I could invest in a new lens set and flash. The most impressive piece of the Canon Digital Rebel is its speed and ease of use – the Rebel XT is very much an advanced camera capable of any photographic requirements… that said, the Rebel shouldn’t frighten even the most novice photographer – its interface is simple and understandable. The Rebel is a perfect balance of simplicity / automatic controls and advanced / manual refinement. The Rebel XT has an impressively fast and concise auto-focus and takes rapid photos (great for moving photography or subjects). Most important, the JPG quality and print outs are fantastic. Framed nature shots (10x12) adorn the walls of my apartment and look fantastic. The pictures are excellent for the web, for computers and even look great when rendered as slide-shows on my 50 inch Sony LCD TV. The software bundled with the camera is easy to install and use… and most importantly, its fast. Many other software packages are hefty and stale. Must have add-ons: Owners of the EOS Digital Rebel XT will certainly appreciate a full-size flash as the attached pop-up flash is workable but far from ideal in low-light settings. As always, one of the major benefits of any SLR is its ability to use different lenses – adding a telephoto lens is great for sports and still-shots of people; wide-angel lenses work great for scenery and nature. Dimensions (WxDxH): 12.7 cm x 6.4 cm x 9.4 cm Weight: 485 g Included Lens Features Optical Sensor Type: CMOS Optical Sensor Size: 14.8 x 22.2mm Maximum Focal Length: 55 mm, 85 mm Minimum Focal Length: 17 mm, 18 mm Display: LCD display - TFT active matrix - 1.8" - color Review ID: 10000000000000658 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Great size, great picture quality, but not perfect278 of 317 people found this review helpful. Cameras I currently own: 1) Canon 20D 2) Canon 5D 3) Sony DSC-F828 4) Canon SD400 The Good: 1) Amazing size, it is significantly smaller than the 20D - I can fit this in my backpack whereas the 20D won't fit. IE, I can bring this into some places where I cannot bring my 20D - and still get DSLR quality pics. 2) Solidly built - no problems with the construction quality. You won't need better weather seals unless you are a war correspondent or Everest sherpa. 3) Fast writing to CF - Canon fixed the worst problem with the old Rebel - ie, its slow I/O speed. This one writes fast and in fact, can go for longer without running out of buffer space than my 20D (but this is because of a slower shooting speed too). I got over 20 RAW shots to CF in one burst - using a SanDisk Ultra II 2GB card - fastest on the market. 4) Fast start-up. Instant start-up, just like the 20D. No more missing shots like the old Rebel. 5) Noise and pic quality similiar to 20D. The Bad: 1) No software ISO3200 mode. Inconvenient for low light no-flash situations. Canon cheaped-out here, it's just software. Someone should write a hack. 2) Noise still noticeable at ISO1600 - just like the 20D. For this price it's fine, but the 5D set the new standard. 3) 3fps - limits your creativity action-shot wise. 20D gets 5fps, which is significantly more. If you don't do action shots, you won't care. 4) Pictures are slightly smaller than 20D - slightly lower resolution, but again, you won't care. Overall: Great camera for the price, worlds better than the competition at a similar price point. But as I always say, you get what you pay for. It's no 20D, but it is smaller and cheaper, and sometimes that's worth more than ISO3200 and 5fps. Review ID: 10000000000008801 Was this review helpful? Report this review Thinking about SLR? Well this is a great start....141 of 152 people found this review helpful. I was always into photography and finally decided to take it to the next level. I've always liked Canon so that narrowed it down. So this left me in deciding between the 20d and the 350d (XT). There's about a $300-$500 price difference between the two. My friend has the 20d, and I've used it extensively. So in my mind the $300 upgrade gets you: faster shutterspeed - probably wont use it better noise reduction @ higher ISO - nice to have better build quality more shutter life supposedly the focusing is better with 2.8 and faster lenses bigger and heavier - both a pro and a con. I like the weight of my XT, but I dont like the size. My pinky finger hangs off the edge of the bottom. I recently purchased the battery grip, and that solved that problem. There are other things that the 20d is better at, but these are the points I thought of. So the above points out where the XT is lacking. So why did I buy the XT? Mainly for price, and its a good starter. I think that jumping from the XT to the 1d series is a better jump than from 20d to their top. That extra $3-500 you can put towards lenses where this probably has more of an effect on image quality. I did a comparison between a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 vs. Tamron 18-200 f3.5-5.6 and the difference was obvious. The higher quality glass delivered a noticeable increase in sharpness and detail. I also like the weight of my camera. With these heavy lenses, the reduction in body weight is a neck saver! All in all, if you're a beginner to SLR, get it and upgrade later. It will also serve as a decent back-up. If you liked my review, please click on the YES button below. TIA! Review ID: 10000000000016258 Was this review helpful? Report this review Solid Camera, Great bang for the buck29 of 35 people found this review helpful. In the land of digital SLRs the two cameras that immediately jumped at me were the Rebel XT and the Nikon D70. The Nikon has a good feel to it, but the technology is a little old and its resolution is only about 6 MP compared to the 8 MP on the XT. The small size of the XT weirded me out the first time I picked it up, but it really isn't that much different in size to a film SLR and I became comfortable with it the more I handled it in stores. The DIGIC I processor on the G3 produced awesome shots and I was a big fan of it. The DIGIC II has not disappointed me. The images are brilliant. The XT also boots up in an instant. I have not missed a shot because the camera didn't turn on in time. The Digital XT's top shutter speed of 1/4000 is plenty to catch most action shots and the 3.0 frames per second (FPS) continuous shooting is great. I can capture up to 9 frames in one burst using the Large size and Fine resolution file size. The only real problem that I have had with the camera is that I will occasionally hit the shutter release timer button by accident. While the design might be better, you could also argue that the user should pay more attention to what he is doing. It's certainly not annoying enough to consider returning the camera though. In short, Digital Rebel XT is a great camera. You can't find another camera with a similar feature set for this amount of money. The only reason I would recommend the Nikon D70 over the XT is if you already have a bunch of Nikon lenses. Otherwise, I don't think you can get a better camera for the money. Review ID: 10000000000001727 Was this review helpful? Report this review Unbeatable for the price18 of 20 people found this review helpful. I am a professional photographer and in recent years I've rarely shot 35mm, concentrating on larger formats for fine art gallery prints. A friend wanted to buy my Canon Elan 7, so I sold it and decided to replace it with the Rebel XT. I consider the 20D but it is far too heavy, almost as heavy as my Pentax medium format film camera. I bought the XT instead and I have no regrets. Contrary to what others have said, the limits of true photographic quality prints is about 13x19. I base that on prints that are sellable as a fine art print in a gallery. At that you're printing about 180 dpi right at the minimum for true high quality and to do that you really need to be shooting RAW files and processing them in Photoshop CS2. But for most people the XT will be perfect. It isn't a medium format quality camera but it's the equal of virtually any 35mm film camera available, for all practical purposes, in terms of image quality. The only way a 35mm frame will look sharper is if it's ultra low grain film such as Fuji Velvia, shot with a camera with good lenses and scanned on a drum scanner. If you're using typical entry level flatbed scanners with film scan adapters or the entry level film scanners, the XT will deliver better images. Forget the kit lens with the XT. I went with a Sigma aftermarket 28-200 mm equivalent in one of their smaller lightweight lens made especially for smaller sensor digital bodies. At about 1.75 pounds I have body, lens, battery in a very light weight package, with a lens that will produce professional quality prints. If you want to see the results, go to my web site EARTHLIGHTGALLERY.COM and check the pics in the Glen Canyon gallery. Most of the Coyote Gulch fall color pics were taken with the XT. The XT seems to give me a bit over a hundred frames before the battery needs to be recharged. I use the LCD display to look at the histograms quite frequently. you can find rechargeable batteries very cheaply here on ebay. Beware of the scammers that try and sell you the body cheap and charge over a hundred bucks or more for a single battery and charger. If you try and buy the body without the charger/battery the XT will be on 'backorder' forever! PCNation dot com is a great place to look. Review ID: 10000000000099153 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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