Canon EOS 1000D (EOS Digital Rebel XS) review

First off I am basing my review scores of similar models from Nikon and Sony and for its price point.

I see in a lot of reviews people complain about the auto screen shut off sensor being removed from this model. This is not as big an issue as people would have your believe. You can actually just press the display button to turn it off.

It even turns the screen off automatically when you press down to focus or even take a picture.

As for features it has pretty much all you need to take great photos. My only advice is don't look at live view and think that this can replace your point and shoot.

The live view is mostly for taking pictures of objects that are not moving. Example would be macro. You can zoom in on the screen up to 10x and confirm the sharpness of your focus and continue to tweak with manual focus.

The auto focus in the live view is slow and clumsy, but that being said your not going to get a better focus system even with the 40D/50D.

The 7 point focusing is fine for most photographers and still beats Nikon's 3 for budget DSLR's

As usual the image quality is out standing and cant be beat in its class.

Menu system is great specially with the custom section to set up all your favorite functions in one menu.

Start up is lightning fast as expected and with .jpg files it can shoot 3fps until the card is full. For raw it slows down to about 1.5 Frames per second for the first 5.
After that you can continue to shoot at 1fps pretty much until the frame is full if you have a fast enough card.
(Hint shoot RAW Only not RAW + JPG)

Not that I would expect many people to want to shoot at 1.5 frames per second let alone 1 lol.

The kit lens is the 18-55mm IS lens which does its job well.

Over all I would say in my 7 years of DSLR experience this is the budget dslr that has absolutely blown me away!

Cheers
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