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Who's still using Rebel T1i or older bodies?

Started Aug 19, 2016 | Discussions thread
bmoag Veteran Member • Posts: 3,387
Re: Who's still using Rebel T1i or older bodies?

I have one and three lenses sitting in a box. They did not cost me much for a variety of reasons.

When it was new I liked the  size, weight and image quality. I have never used it for anything but raw images and video snapshots.

In retrospect it was quite noisy at anything much above base ISO. When I go back and try to massage the raw images they are just not what I thought they were. I have images from a contemporary Nikon d5100 and the comparison does not favor Canon.

I could see no reason to update to the now geezer status 18mp sensor that Canon is still hawking as I never saw any test that showed a significant improvement over the T1i 16mp sensor. I can see no reason to upgrade to the 24mp sensor cameras as for me the Canon price/quality ratio, as well as the heft of the APS rebels, makes no sense when a D3300 can be had for giveaway prices and yields images of better technical quality.

The lenses have a miniscule resale value, the camera none at this point.

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