Name of product:
Canon EOS Rebel XTiApproximate date of purchase:
2007My Review
I love my digital SLR camera. I have the equivalent film camera from the early 1980s and really enjoyed it, although the lenses were a pain to change.
Not so with this camera -- easy, easy, easy, and fast! And the lenses are so much lighter than the old ones. That was a big concern for me, because the old heavy lens made lens shake a real concern.
Because of having a previous Canon, I found the transition to the digital SLR rather easy. Many of the manual settings are familiar, and the symbols large enough to be easy to see, which was a real concern for me with other cameras I looked at. It's fine if you are looking at the display, but the camera itself was hard to see the dials and setting.
As an added bonus, my hot shoe from the manual camera fits and works fine.
My old lenses are manual focus, so they are not compatible with the new camera, but friends who had newer manuals with autofocus can use their old lenses with the new houses.
I did have trouble loading the software on the newer Vista laptop, but that's not Canon's fault, but rather the store who sold me the laptop. Canon's support helped me through this, took the time for a real person to call and make sure my camera and laptop were ready for my trip of a lifetime out to Yellowstone and back.
Camera "pros"
Easy to use
Easy to change lenses
Readily available lenses, filters, bags, etc.
Rather more lightweight than similar-sized cameras
Easy to switch from auto to manual without having to look at the camera
You can have limited use to the screen so you do not have to look into a LCD screen to shoot
Camera "cons"
The memory card is rather a old model and you have to really look for them
Lenses are expensive
Web site is not always easy to understand
I wish I had gone ahead and gotten the anti-shake lenses which were new at the time
