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Canon EOS Rebel XSi -- A Gorgeous Digital Camera

Canon is a Japanese multinational corporation well known for image and optical products. They produce cameras, steppers, computer printers and photocopiers. Canon launched a new powerful DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera called Canon EOS Rebel XSi.

Canon EOS Rebel XSi has a 12.2 Megapixel resolution of CMOS sensor. Rebel XSi has a 3.0 inch TFT LCD display having 230,000 pixels. The dimension of this camera is 5.1 x 3.8 x 2.4 inches (129 x 98 x 62 mm). The ISO sensitivity ranges from ISO 100 to ISO 1600. With ISO 100, the shots are available at 16 x 20 inch prints and with ISO 1600, the shots are quite good at 11 x 14 inches. It contains an electronic self timer of 10 and two seconds. It has an extremely tight viewfinder in it. The viewfinder allows magnification up to 0.87x.

EOS Rebel XSi features a DIGIC III processor which allows 14 bit analog to digital image processing. The auto lighting optimizer is enabled by DIGIC III and it maintains the highlight and shadow lighting. It has a built-in flash which works well at all the times. It provides good angle up to 16 feet of wide angle. It contains an improved nine point autofocus sensor. It gives a pleasant shooting experience. At full focus, the camera shutter lag is 0.16 seconds. The prefocus shutter lag will be 0.089 seconds. The full AF contrast detect and phase detect will be 0.250 seconds and 0.232 seconds respectively.

EOS Rebel XSi has a new image stabilized lens of size 18 to 55 mm. Canon EOS Rebel XSi comes with an interchangeable lens which supports all Canon EOS series lenses. The lens offers better sharpness and chromatic aberrations (CA) is under control. It provides sharper images in all conditions. It has a versatile menu system and while using the menus the user has to scroll to the top of the menu list and highlight the tab in order to move to the next tab. It has mymenu tab which contains the recently used six menu items for quick access.

EOS Rebel XSi delivers 3.50 frames per second. The shutter speed varies from 1/4000 to 30 seconds. It offers a live view mode for excellent capturing of the subjects with great quality. The live view mode contains quick phase detect mode and live contrast detect mode. It features a dust reduction and automatic sensor cleaning in it. It includes a flash exposure lock function as well. It bears a built-in illuminator which reduces the red eye reduction. It provides continuous shooting up to 53 images.

The body is made up of plastic (stainless steel chassis). This camera uses SD/SDHC cards for memory storage. The camera weighs 539 grams (19 ounces) with batteries and 475 grams (16.76 ounces) without batteries. It uses a custom lithium ion LP-E5 rechargeable battery. This camera is perfectly suitable for the amateurs. Overall it is a great camera for photographers.

dbal
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:41:58 +0000

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