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Canon EOS 50D Review
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 If
you’re beyond the entry-level actions of a digital photographer, then
you’ll feel comfortable stepping into the $1000 to $1500 price range
for a dSLR.
Canon has designed the 50D to replace their
EOS 40D by giving it higher resolution – an outstanding 15-megapixels –
and one additional stop of ISO sensitivity (up to 6400), multiple
compressed RAW options (i.e. 15, 7 and 3.8 megapixels) and enhanced
single-shot performance.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the canon eos 50D looks
just like the 40D, because under close inspection you’ll see that Canon
makes some changes that push this camera into the stratosphere.
The
huge 3-inch LCD provides complete information and the newly added
joystick and Quick Control dial enables you to make all the necessary
function settings that you want to make to customize your photographic
experience.
The most notable new feature being Creative Auto, while this is
something that you might expect to see on Canon’s Rebel, it’s inclusion
on this canon 50D give it a little more flexibility based on your
proficiency with dSLRs. Creative Auto is a semi-manual mode that is
more like a stripped-down Program mode.
All
the features are automated (single, continuous, or self-time shooting;
Picture Styles – Canon attempt to mimic various “film stocks” in the
digital world; photo size & quality and flash mode), except for the
shutter speed and aperture, which are replaced by two sliding scales –
Exposure and Background, which obviously adjust the shutter and
aperture.
Like all Canon eos digital slr cameras, the EOS 50D is a
FAST camera, with a high-speed burst shooting more of 6.3 fps, and if
you drop in a UMDA CF memory card you’ll be able to extend the buffer
from 60 to 90 JPEGs frame (it’s fixed at 16 frames for RAW). The canon
50D has a top shutter speed of 1/8000th and a flash sync 1/250… see?
Just like I said, the 50D is fast!
You can pick up the EOS 50D is three different configurations, the
body-only or with two different kit lens – the 28-135mm, f/3.5 – 5.6 IS
USM lens or the new EFS 18-200mm f/3.5 – 5.6 IS lens.
Both
lenses are super sharp, but the 28-135mm is a little more accurate.
You’ll be viewing your super sharp images on the 3-inch LCD, which
Canon found a way to fit an extra programmable button beneath the
screen that controls the LCD’s brightness, image quality, exposure
compensation, image jump during playback, and LiveView (that amazing
feature in which the LCD acts the viewfinder… just like on any digital
point-n-shoot camera).
The
DIGIC 4 image processor chip set gives you face detection in LiveView
mode, and the DIGIC chip provides additional settings for Auto Lighting
Optimizer (which preserves the details in the highlights in challenging
lighting situations) and high-ISO noise reduction. The 50D has three
9-poit AutoFocus modes – single-shot, AI servo tracking, and AI focus,
which switches between Single and AI Servo if the camera detects that
your subject has moved. The 50D also has four metering modes –
evaluative, partial meter, spot meter and center-weighted – that
provide a large amount of flexibility when searching for the perfect,
expressive exposure.
Canon has bestowed the 50D with a full range of
white-balance settings, including bracketing and custom corrections
along the blue, amber, magenta and green axes. It’s has the standard
program modes (from full auto to completely manual), that will produce
images with a fantastic dynamic range.
When you look over all the new features that imbued into the 50D to
surpass the 40D and consider that a sharp lens will put this camera in
the image-capturing class of more expensive cameras. If you’re in the
market for this class of camera, you could hardly do better.
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