Canon EOS 500D – Canon Rebel T1i

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30 May 2010

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Canon SLR line consumers have a new flagship: the 15.1 megapixel Canon EOS 500D. Once again, we see a new SLR from Canon in less than 18 months from the last in a given line. It’s absolutely alone eight months back the XS was announced, and about 14 back the XSi; either way you attending at it, antagonism has beneath artefact cycles in the agenda SLR space.

While the new HD cine approach is the gee-whiz affection on the Canon EOS 500D, the important affection for best photographers is the still angel affection at 15.1 megapixels. According to our tests, its only rival even near this price point is the Canon EOS 50D or the more recently-announced Pentax K-7, both of which are considerably more expensive at retail. (But both of which are also more ruggedly constructed, particularly the Pentax, which has a die-cast body and significant environmental sealing).

Controls and anatomy administration are about identical (differences are burst bottomward in the User Report below); the capital changes are internal. The Canon EOS 500D’s new sensor is ever slightly larger at 22.3 x 14.9mm compared to the 22.2 x 14.8mm measurement of the XSi’s sensor, but the bigger change is the new sensor’s high ISO capabilities, running from 100 to 3,200, with two expanded settings: 6,400 and 12,800.

Canon’s DIGIC 4, which handles most 4752 x 3168 at a slightly reduced speed of 3.4 frames per second (at 1 / 500 second or more – below the XSI 3.5 fps), with a gust up to 170 JPEG frames or 9 frames RAW. You can additionally now abduction RAW images in all of the Canon EOS 500D’s modes, whether Basic or Creative Zone.

The Canon EOS 500D‘s 3-inch LCD is a 640×480 design with 920,000 dots, making for a noticeably sharper onscreen image, great for focusing and confirming sharpness after capture. The Canon EOS 500D is the first rebel to have a high resolution display.

The Canon EOS 500D can use EF and EF-S lenses, and uses SD/SDHC cards, admitting Eye-Fi wireless cards. The array is the aforementioned as the XSi, and it uses the aforementioned array grip.