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Canon EOS 500D (EOS Kiss Digital X3 / EOS Rebel T1i) review

Started Jul 25, 2010 | User reviews thread
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IchiroCameraGuy Contributing Member • Posts: 888
Canon EOS 500D (EOS Kiss Digital X3 / EOS Rebel T1i) review

Great consumer DSLR with more capability than its normal user will ever touch. It has a nice size, very usable ISO 6400, good but not great HD video mode, and realizes amazing resolution with the proper exposure and processing.

For the prices you can find now it is a great bargain. Put to use the live histogram, DOF preview, and a few other things its competitors were missing and work with the good basics of exposure and fundamentals of composition and you really don't need another APS camera.

Do get the 55-250mm lens bundled with the camera if you can, it is one of the gems of the Canon system and will cover all amateur/consumer photography use of that range indefinitely with amazing value for its performance.

Search my name at flickr for a demo I post for someone ISO 12800 photo on a very dark night with no noise reduction, it is more capable than many reviewers or posers will tell you. Have fun and don't blame the camera!

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Canon EOS 500D Canon EOS M Samsung NX500 Canon EF 50mm F1.8 II Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II +2 more
Canon EOS 500D (EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3)
15 megapixels • 3 screen • APS-C sensor
Announced: Mar 25, 2009
IchiroCameraGuy's score
4.4
Average community score
4.3
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