Who's still using Rebel T1i or older bodies?

stomrunner wrote:

bmoag wrote:

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.

I found minimal noise up to ISO 1600. If you print huge posters things may well be different, but under "normal" viewing conditions ~1600 should be good. At ISO 3200 and above things start to deteriorate rapidly. I compensate with an ultra fast 30mm f1.4 lens, which I use 90%+ of the time.

As mentioned in the post above, I found no reason to upgrade to any of the newer Canon APS bodies either. Their so called improvements are more like gimmicks to me. This is not necessarily Canon's fault. The DSLR technology is so mature, there isn't a lot of new ground to be broken. That's why I kind of favor going with non-DLSR in the future.

I "pushed" to ISO 3200 by shooting ISO 1600 and underexposing by one stop.  A slight adjustment in post processing and Bingo!  Easily covered by the DR of the sensor.