Canon Digital Rebel XT Review

The Canon Digital Rebel XT is designed to provide the users with ease of use, comfort, and convenience. This digital camera significantly features Canon’s Digital Trinity that includes its 8.0 Megapixel resolution CMOS sensor, DIGIC II Image processor from Canon, plus the compatibility of more than fifty EF lenses.

This digital camera has improved a lot, this time being very lightweight, and has a more compact body. Moreover, its performance has greatly improved and its operation has become a whole lot easier to manipulate, thus simplifying those complex tasks, while guaranteeing perfect captures. With its powerful performance, along with intuitive simplicity and unprecedented affordability, Rebel XT is indeed a digital camera ever body should have.

To capture images with tonal range and exceptional clarity, Rebel XT features an 8.0 Megapixel CMOS sensor. This particular APS-C-sized CMOS sensor creates effective angles of views similar with those film cameras. This sensor also features a Noise Reduction Circuit, expanded within the ISO range, thus providing professional performance on consumer package.

Most people today also prefer to have smaller digital camera. Thus, the Canon Rebel XT is made smaller compared to its predecessor. Measuring only 2.63” deep, 3.71” tall and 4.98” across, this digital camera perfectly fits on your palm. And because it is very small, it also weighs very light, less than two pounds in fact.

The Rebel XT is actually designed to be more intuitive and a lot faster than the original Digital Rebel. This modern digital camera has very fast 0.2 second start-up time, a 100 millisecond shutter release lag, and a 175 millisecond viewfinder blackout time. Its high speed shutter can shoot at speed about 1/4000 second can take fourteen shots while synchronizing with the flash at 1/200 seconds.

For an accurate and speedy focusing on any possible situation, the digital Rebel XT is equipped with a 7-point AF system that is newly developed to provide better precision. You are free to choose your own preferred point of focus, or you can simply let the camera automatically choose for you. To guarantee that your moving subjects remain focused, you can try to make use of the predictive AF feature.

Additionally, its built in adjustment system called the dioptric, along with a high precision matter screen, users can efficiently obtain sharper focus, regardless of the time or the place where the pictures are taken.
This high-end digital camera additionally provides the users with easy operation, just like what most of the other digital cameras offer today.

Aside from that, the Rebel XT provides varied advanced setting options that are normally found only on high-end models. This particular model offers the user with choices on varied metering patterns, namely the point evaluative metering, the partial metering on the image’s center, and the centerweighted averaged metering, the same with the traditional 35mm cameras.

As for flash photography, the Rebel XT uses one of Canon’s most impressive flash systems; which is the E-TTL II. This system can further be customized with different customized modes of flash metering or the flash exposure compensation. Although these specific functions are not that useful for automatic functions, these are readily available right at your fingertips that moment that you want them.

Once the user has his pictures with him already and wants to print them, the Rebel XT makes this pretty much easier. The Rebel XT digital camera will work well with any printer that is PictBridge compatible. Also, the Exif 2.2 can also include shot details in every image so that printing pictures are more optimized. Furthermore, the Rebel XT digital camera can be readily connected to computers that run either on Windows XP or MAC, without using extra software because of PTP compatibility.

Finally, the Rebel XT works well with the other Canon lenses that are included under the EF line-up. This line up generally employs far more advanced optical know-hows, so it could deliver superb performance to all the photographic processes of a Canon Camera.

Pros: This digital is very small, that it fits perfectly on the palm of your hands. Because of that, a lightweight but top-performing quality digital camera is found on the Digital Rebel XT.

Cons: Since it is only using Lithium Ion battery, users tend to purchase counterfeit battery packs as they are more affordable. By doing so, it can compromise the performance of this camera.

Overall: The Digital Rebel XT is a collaboration of a sleek digital camera that exudes high-end performance. If properly taken cared off, this digital camera can efficiently work for years.

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