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Canon EOS Rebel XS / 1000D Review
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Sometimes camera companies want to service more than one segment of the
audience with the same product, but Canon decided to de-power its EOS
Rebel XSi and introduce it at a lower price with it’s
near-identical Rebel XS… it comes in two body designs
–
authoritative black, and hip two-tone silver and black, this camera is
aimed at the sub-$700 and it hits the bull’s eye with amazing
results.
The XS comes with an 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS kit lens and has
been
designed for easy-single handed operation. Its menus are easy to
navigate, and Canon equipped this little powerhouse with My Menu, a
feature normally reserved for Canon’s higher end models.
This supremely convenient feature enables you to build a customized
go-to list of all the features and settings that you use the most!
The XS is also graced with Picture Styles which is Canon arguably
successful analogy of bringing various “film
stocks” to the
digital photography space. You’ll get a kick out of this
function, as finding the “look” that you want is
just a
click away.
The XS has impressive entry level specs -- a 10 megapixel CMOS image
sensor, 7-point user-selectable autofocus system (which performs
extraordinarily well in low-light conditions), 35-zone Through-The-Lens
metering system and Canon’s nifty Auto Lighting Optimizer, a
function that automatically adjusts contrast and brightness in your
photo isn’t quite perfect.
ALO works in all the exposure modes and uses face-detection technology
to prevent underexposing backlit faces. The XS’ shutter speed
ranges from 30 second to 1/4000 and has a flash sync speed of 1/200.
It’s ISO sensitivity ranges up to ISO 1600, and produces
acceptable images with very little noise at that setting.
The XS has stand-out shooting speed, as you can turn it on and snap a
photo in a little under 0.2 seconds! Yeah, that’s exactly
what I
said, “wow!” And it snaps off RAW photos in 0.7
seconds,
and JPEGs in 0.4; the flash-recycling time only bumps the time between
pictures to 0.8 seconds. Like I said, this camera is a speed freak.
Its JPEG burst shooting rate of 8.5 fps outpaces nearly every camera in
its class and some outside of its class. The XS has the great and
extremely useful Live View feature (in which the LCD screen acts as the
viewfinder, like on most point-n-shoot cameras) and the XS gloriously
uses its vivid 2.5-inch LCD screen to make this feature quite
satisfying. The one big draw back on the XS, though, is that is
doesn’t have a spot meter.
Maybe you can live with out this, maybe you can’t…
it all
depends on your shooting style, technique and needs.
The Rebel XS truly obvious advantage over its competitors is its photo
quality, which is remarkable, especially at the higher ISO
sensitivities. The camera’s color and exposures are accurate
and
it boasts a broad dynamic range, and the include kit lens delivers
sharp-as-a-tack photos for this class of camera.
So you have to ask youself, how does the EOS Rebel XS compare to its
sub-$700 competitors? If you want the best photo quality and/or need
fast, low-light focus, then the XS stands head and shoulders above the
rest.
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