http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/ Engadget Comments for Hands-on with the Canon EOS Rebel XSi DSLR http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/]]>Jan 31st 2008 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Feb 1st 2008 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Apr 9th 2008 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/
Still definitely NOT a Canon though :)

And thank god for no 5D replacement as I would hate for my invesment to be obsolete :)]]>Jan 31st 2008 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Does it have better than a tiny toy tunnel of an eye piece yet....
When I looked at canon before, the pictures it produced were fine.
But, the handling was like an ungainly fisher price toy, with crappy little tunnel of an eyepiece.
Better handling and attention to such details definitely led me to pentax at the time.
Or does the new feature of live view now mean that the eye piece will become ignored in this level of cameras too?
I hope not... that would be a crying shame.
I wonder how everyone is accomplishing there live view ... prism I guess... funny how for the past several years, the company lines were all about not corrupting the light path with such shenanigans.. but now that the low end dslr market has bled into the prosumer camera space... all the cams have to have the live view!
Might be handy at times... but is almost surely a trade off in image quality.
It's all too bad as well, because it certainly leaves all the players free to slack off in relation to not improving the eye pieces, which were already very, very, very, very horribly sickly cousins of the often excellent eye pieces which were available on even lower end 35mm slrs back in the day.
And it's hard to get a good image, when you can't properly see if it is in focus or not.

- Mike
]]>Jan 31st 2008 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/This is another BIG reason I hope the new gotta-have dslr feature of live view doesn't promote declining design interest in the eye piece.
But... I know it will. I just know it.
Oh.. feeeewwwie.

- Mike]]>Jan 31st 2008 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Apr 9th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/
Larger LCD, larger viewfinder, Digic III, SD, better grip, improved auto focus, new CMOS sensor which supposedly helps decrease noise, Live View, sounds like a winner.

And while a lot of pros and pro wannabes talk trash about live view, only an idiot would say it has no use whatsoever. Some of these people would rather crawl around on their belly in the mud to compose a shot than admit that they use live view like "normal" people.

I've been in situations with my XTi where I can't physically get my head behind the camera, be it in a corner, or down low, or up above my head. In all of these situations I've had to shoot blind and hope for the best, often missing important shots. While practice might make perfect, I'd rather be able to glance at the LCD even at an extreme angle, to make sure I'm at least pointed at the subject.

But I'm not a pro so what do I know? I just want my camera to be a tool that is easy and fun to use.]]>Jan 31st 2008 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/My point was that where all the talk used to be about it corrupting the dslr, now everyone has it.
My second point was that it is no substitute for a good eye piece, like it has been treated on pocket cameras.
And I hope its presence does not lave the manufacturers feeling as though the eye piece doesn't need attention too. I however, think that is just what will happen. And that is much to the detriment of these cameras if it does.
Live view makes precise focus often more difficult than with a good eye piece, and it also promotes holding the camera in a much less stable fashion.
It surely has its uses, but if I could only have live view or a decent eyepiece and not both.. I'd take the eyepiece without a moments thought.

That all being said, even the high end dslr eyepieces aren't very good by old slr standards.

- Mike]]>Jan 31st 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/
I don't get the switch in low-end SLR's to SD. It's not like the xsi is any smaller than the xti (nor should it be - the Rebels have always been a bit too small to really hold properly).

Well, maybe Canon's trying to push CF users to the higher-end bodies... and they'll probably succeed in my case.
]]>Jan 31st 2008 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/
I can understand if you've built up quite a collection of CF cards that you'd be peeved, though.]]>Jan 31st 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/More and more common to get a built in SD slot on notebooks and stuff too.
I think compact flash has more or less seen its day.

- mike]]>Jan 31st 2008 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/
http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/Canon%20EOS%20Lens%20Tests/181-canon-ef-s-18-55mm-f35-56-is-test-report--review

Tasty and cheap, basically.]]>Jan 31st 2008 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/

So disappointing that a better camera is released within 1 month of my gift.

My real question is whether the XSi will have the same XTi flash issue - unable to take more than 20 photos on the built in flash in fast succession. I know for true quality and to dismiss the issue you should have a speedflash, but sometimes you just have no reason to lug one of those around.

If no flash issue, the additions to the XSi make it such a dramatically better camera at such a mildly elevated price point, it makes XTi recent buyers feel totally and completely screwed with a big rubber one.

Addition of 2mpxls, no big deal
Addition of: live view, Image stabilization lens, SD, ALL big deals for just a $200-300 increase at price point.]]>Feb 2nd 2008 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/
Personally, Live View and 2MP arn't worth considering an upgrade for me, SD is a downgrade from CF, and if I really want IS on a cheap lens, I could pick up the same 18-55 IS for around $200, but I'd rather have the 17-55 f/2.8 IS.]]>Jan 31st 2008 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Jan 31st 2008 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Feb 1st 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/hands-on-with-the-canon-eos-rebel-xsi-dslr/Feb 18th 2008 5:24PM