New: Canon T2i. Amazon link.
If you like megapixels, this is the ticket. Eighteen MP in an "entry-level" camera!
Even if one thinks this is overdoing it, as I tend to, I have learned that mucho megapixels, while not always the great advantage some think they are (very demanding of lenses for example), are not really a downside at least, and can be useful. In any case this is a hot camera for eight hundred bucks, that's for dang sure.
Update: it has full HD, and more importantly, takes an external microphone!
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I've used the 18mp 7D a little, and I assume the same sensor/software (for the most part) is in the T2i. All told, I was surprised by the 7D's low-light capability at ISO 3200, considering all the pixels. ISO 6400 was fair, but passable in a small print.
But I work on an aging Mac laptop, and 18mp slows me down. So I turned it down to the medium 8mp setting. Got a nice 18x24 print out of it, too.
I'll bet the T2i is a hell of a camera. But 18mp is flat-out ridiculous in an entry-level camera. Or any small-sensor SLR, in my opinion. The extra pixels are only in there for marketing bullet points, I fear.
Yes, I agree.
They are big files.
And up to 13x19 inches, 12MP is more than enough.
I think I heard that the sensor is not actually the same as in the 7D, although Canon has never put out a camera with a poor sensor.
What makes this additionally killer is the whole video thing, Which could lure in potential high end camcorder shoppers as well...not to mention how a product like this FORCES the other manufacturers to really respond aggressively, which means in less than a year we'll all be tempted by entry-level on steroids (and growth hormones) offerings from Nikon, Pentax, Olympus. Sony will likely compensate by releasing 10 new sub-$1000 DSLRs--all without video
Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i / Kiss X4 Digital)
This thing seems to have more AKAs than a Vegas hooker's rap sheet:
http://www.dpreview.com/previews/CanonEOS550D/
http://bit.ly/cjMXCL
Ross doesn't seem too impressed with the light gathering abilities of such small pixels?
Seriously doubtful of this camera.
Anon, what's an AKA?
Not to step on Anon's toes, but AKA=Also Known As.
Like, XXX YYY aka Eolake Stobblehouse.
I should also add it is usually a law enforcement term. Not as lofty as 'Nom de Plume'. Goes along with 'Rap Sheet' or list of known offenses.
As a person living in Las Vegas, I could take offense to the reference of our hookers, but I will pass. I am sure many have a long list of aka's and also rap sheets. I know none of them.
Ah, thanks.
I knew a.k.a. used as a verb, but not a noun.
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