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Great for learning

Started Apr 23, 2012 | User reviews thread
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Dolven New Member • Posts: 5
Great for learning

My parents own a Canon EOS 500D which they bought when it was pretty new on the market. They don't really know alot about photographing themselves, and neither did I before the last months.
I was lucky to be tought by a good photographer, and I used this camera for learning. I've actually learned so much that I'm not going to buy a rebel series meself. I've learned enough in these month to take the step over to the 60D, but enough of that. More about the 500D.

The size is nice, even though I like it a bit bigger. The screen is good quality, and the A-CMOS sensor takes great pictures, but with a little bit lack in quality due to the fact it is only 15 MP. This is not noticeable unless you print large images. It has nice placement of all needed buttons, such as ISO and AF.

The lens that came with the camera was the standard Canon EF-S 18-55 mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS. It's a pretty good lens, and with a little bit of editing in free software such as Picasa, the pictures are superb.

The only problem is, as in all Canon DSLR's in lower price, slow AF in Live View and Movie Mode. It's also quite noisy in these modes, but with a bit of practising MF becomes second (or third) nature.

Overall a great camera, too bad it's not in production anymore. Personally I like it better than the 550D because of the buttons ...

Problems:

Slow and noisy AF in Live View and Movie Mode

 Dolven's gear list:Dolven's gear list
Canon EOS 60D Canon EF 50mm F1.8 II Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3)
15 megapixels • 3 screen • APS-C sensor
Announced: Mar 25, 2009
Dolven's score
4.5
Average community score
4.3
Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3) Canon EOS 550D (EOS Rebel T2i / EOS Kiss X4) Canon EOS 60D
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