Canon Powershot G7 Prosumer Compact Digital Camera
It has been almost two years since Canon’s last release of a G series camera, the G6. The G series was once one of the best prosumer level digital cameras in an era when digital SLR’s were at least a couple thousand dollars.
The G6 and now Canon G7 fall into the “bridge” camera category. It “bridged” the gulf between an expensive full on digital SLR and the compact consumer digital slr’s. These cameras often had decent pixel counts and a higher zoom than the regular consumer models but were still lacking the full feature and functional set of a true digital slr. Things like full manual control, swappable lenses, extensive metering options, noise free high ISO shooting speeds were missing from even the best bridge cameras. Still, users could get most of the dslr’s pertinent features for about a third of the price of a true slr. Cameras like the G6 were good bang for the buck.
No longer. Since then entry level dslr’s have dropped by at least half in price and digital cameras have fragmented and developed separate niches. Ultra zooms, pocket compacts, waterproof and wide angles all can do specific things better than the all in…
Read Full ArticleCanon EOS 5D Digital SLR
Canon’s EOS 5D dslr comes with a 12.8 megapixels in a 35mm full frame sensor. With a maximum 4,368 x 2,912 pixel resolution you can print large size images or crop with more flexibility without having to reduce the print size too much.
Previous to the 5D Canon only had one other camera with a full frame sensor, the EOS-1Ds Mark II. Being a full on professional D-SLR it was expensive and quite large and heavy.
With the EOS 5D digicam, Canon finally has a product that fits nicely between the high end and the prosumer level EOS 350D/EOS 400D digital Rebel Xts. For lens compatibility the EOS 5D supports Canon’s EF series lenses (not EF-S).
Reviews have given the camera high praise for its high resolution (of course) and low noise images. Couple this with a quality lens and you should get outstanding images.
Being a full frame camera, a 50mm lens will give you exactly that, not the longer 35mm equivalent 75mm with a smaller sensor. Optics matter on a camera with a full frame so this may mean upgrading to better camera lenses if you do decide to shell out the money for this DSLR.
With camera…
Read Full ArticleCanon 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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