Canon Eos 400D / Digital Rebel XTi News, Reviews, Comparisons, Prices and Specs
Canon’s new ten megapixel EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi is the latest addition to their budget digital SLR line of products.
Key features/specs include a ten megapixel, ISO1600 capable CMOS sensor.
Also new is a dust reduction system, nine area auto focus and shooting information on the 2.5” LCD. The small monochrome LCD above the 2.5” LCD in the EOS 300D/350D is now gone.
Cnet gives the Canon EOS 400D Digital Rebel XTi mixed results, largely faulting it for jumping to a higher resolution on the same physical sensor size as the EOS 350D but lowering sensitivity sensor to compensate. Inexplicably spot metering is not featured on this camera.
Cnet Asia has just released a review of Canon EOS 400D-Digital Rebel XTi and gave it a lower rating (7.8) than usual for a Canon camera. It seems Canon sacrificed a few features and lowered specifications to compete with the likes of the 10 megapixel Nikon D80.
Canon upped the resolution but kept the sensor size the same thereby reducing the ISO rating by a full stop to ISO 1600 instead of 3200 for the EOS 350D. While Canon has enlarged the LCD to 2.5” they have removed the monochrome…
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Blurb, the Cafe Press of On Demand Book Publishing
Blurb is an online on demand book publishing service. You download their free Blurb BookSmart software to organize to layout your photos and text content for your personal book.
A number of predefined templates gives you a quick jumpstart to creating a cook book, poetry book, blog book plus baby book, dog book and cat book premade styles.
The Blurb book making software is available for both PC and Mac and allows you to customize your photos, add design effects and enter your text.
The finished books on the Blurb site look high quality and professionally printed but come only in 10x8 portrait or 8x10 landscape format.
The printed books are on heavyweight, archival paper stock ideal for photos and text come in bound hardcover with a custom dust jacket. Blurb plans on including softcover binding in the future.
The book prices are reasonably priced at around $29.95-$37.95 US for hardcover books 20-120 pages. The Blurb book service is only available in Canada and the USA at the moment. Quantity discounts on orders of 25+; custom quotes on 400+. Books are expandable up to 440 pages and no limit on number and size of photos.
Blurb even lets you sell…
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2
The Lumix DMC-LX2 is the successor to the Panasonic wide screen 16:9 format digital camera. Announced in July it is now widely available and the reviews are starting to come in from around the web.
What made the LX1 unique are still around in the DMC-LX2 with some extras in the revision.
The f2.8mm, 4x zoom, 28mm x 112mm equivalent lens is the same but there is now a larger 2.8” 207,000 pixel LCD. Of course Panasonics’ own MEGA O.I.S. antishake system is included. In fact all Lumix cameras now have the MEGA O.I.S. system incorporated. The LUMIX LX2 is also equipped with the world’s first* Intelligent ISO Control (hereafter I.I.C.) within the advanced image processing LSI Venus Engine III.
Panasonic calls this camera triple “wide” because it features three wide functions, 28mm wide angle Leica lens, 16:9 wide CCD and 16:9 LCD.
Panasonic has long called their image processing engine the Venus Engine and with the LUMIX LX2 Panasonic uses the Venus Engine III for noise reduction. Noise was the dealbreaker on ISO speeds higher than 200 on the previous LUMIX LX1 and unfortunately it appears the same problem persists with the DMC-LX2.
The LX2 includes 13mb of internal…
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