Buying a Canon Rebel XTi or Nikon D40x-How do little things compare? Battery life, ease of data transfer, etc.

by dougbutchy

I know the tale with megapixels, etc. etc. But after I buy one of these, what will I wish I had renowned beforehand? Will I learn that one or the other isn’t very durable? Is hard to clean? Takes forever and is complicated to upload data to a computer? The battery dies quickly, or takes forever to charge? The menu is unnavigable? The accessories are expensive? Key accessories are not widely available? The lens cap falls off easily?

Answer by Leslie C
I own the Canon XT and XTi – LOVE them both. Very simple to use and wonderful battery life. (I am a professional photographer) I have played around with the Nikon – I didn’t like the feel of it and how the pictures looked on it. I don’t use the software that comes with the camera – I use a seperate card reader to pull my pictures from to the computer.

Battery life is the best thing – I can do a full day of soccer (3 to 6 games) and never worry about my battery dieing on me. Charge time is about 4 hours. I would recommend having a spare – just in case. Battery life also depends on how much you will need your sparkle for that drain the battery.

The Canon is very simple to get accessories for. They are expensive, especially lenses. No problems with lens caps falling off – more in keeping up with since it is rarely on the camera.

I like my Canons.

Answer by lumpy
i just went through the exact choices and went with the Nikon D40x. I just listened to my 81 year ancient Father who’s been a professional photograher for 62 being. His pluses were simple to steer and durability.He also said the extra lenses I bought were superior to the canon’s extra lenses but he did not say anything really terrible about the canon.

Answer by fhotoace
When you get into this level of DSLR’s they are comprable when it comes to battery life, since they both use state of the art Li-ion batteries. Charging time is about 3 hours for both when first charging, less when recharging depending upon how much charge is left in the battery.

Both are duable … they are made by the two leaders suppying camera systems to the professionals. For this reason lenses are available everywhere professional camera systems are sold as well as litterally millions of excellent used cameras and lenses made by them.

There seems to be an issue with Canon’s in that they are not directly accessable by the computer as a removable drive, so the Canon software has to be installed on the computer being used in order to access the image files though, a simple card reader solves that conundrum for unually under $ 10.

The length of time it takes image files to go from the memory card to the computer depends mostly on the digit and size of the image files on it. Both use USB 2.0 tie ports.

For the absolute best test to see which one is the best for your style of shooting, you might want to do this: Go into a camera store that sells both brands and hold both in your hands … practice by them.

* Which is the simplest for you to use?
* Which menu is the simplest for you to steer and make crucial changes while shooting.
* Which do you find the simplest to adjust gap and shutter speeds while looking through the viewfinder … without having to remove your eye from it. (Action and sports photographers need this feature).

Lens choice really depends upon the type photography you tend to shoot. You will need to buy what you want at the time of buy.

You will need wide angle lenses for shooting landscapes and architectural subjects, telephoto for shooting flora and fauna and sports or action photography and of course a general lens for shooting most of your images.

Choose the lens or lenses which will best provide you with the shots you tend to shoot

If you do not have any experience with shooting a 35mm SLR, you may want to attend a photo class and learn how to compose, expose, renovate and print your own images. It is this experience which will get you into the magic of photography in a huge way and preclude the many frustrations that befall new photographers.

Answer by Elvis
go to yahoo search
type the name of the camera followed by the word review

Answer by George Y
Just one more bit of reading for you.

http://www.jdpower.com/electronics/ratings/digital-camera-ratings/dslr

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Sparkle Comparison – Pup-up vs Pup-up+Diffuser vs SB-400 vs SB-400 bounced


Image by jesusscc
By a tripod I made these 4 shots in a dark room to see the difference of by Pup-up sparkle, Pup-up + Diffuser, SB-400 Sparkle direct and finally with the SB-400 Sparkle bounced at 60 degrees.
See "ALL SIZES" for more details

Gap Priority
f/6.3
1/60 sec
ISO 100
32mm
Nikon D40x + Nikkor 18-135mm

They both look to be available for around the same price.

The G10 has more features and stuff, that I can see, and it has liveview and more pixels.

But at the end of the day, it’s still a compact. Is it comparable to the D40x in terms of image quality?

Delight bear in mind I’m an amateur, and have never owned a prosumer camera before, let lonely a DSLR!
Fascinating… but, and I know this is quite attacking in the camera world, but I don’t reckon I’d be changing lenses.

So just bear in mind it’d be Canon G10 vs. Canon D40x… with one lens only.

Answer by EBA
it depends…

in perfect lighting situation (excellent sunny day) when you can shoot at ISO 100, the subject is still, and the D40x is equipped with the kit lens, the image quality might be nearly like peas in a pod…

but toss any curve ball at the G10, and image quality will be worse than the D40x…
if lighting is terrible and you need to step down to lets say ISO 400, the D40x will be much more noise-free
if the subject is moving, G10 might not focus quick enough to capture excellent moving images
if D40x is equipped with a excellent lens, it’ll certainly be better no matter what…

so… I would say about 10% of the time, you might get similar results, all the other times that D40x will be better…

PS D40x is made by Nikon, not Canon…

Answer by fhotoace
At the end of the day the Nikon has a much, much larger sensor and it can use interchangeable lenses from fisheye (10.5 mm) to extreme telephoto lenses (600 mm)

Features are fun, but they don’t produce quality images.

Image quality has mostly to do with the lens quality, size of the cameras sensor and skills of the user, NOT features or pixel counts

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm

Answer by Moral fiber
Dude get a Canon In any case of Camera type(D slr etc..)
This is a test shot from a canon rebel t1i. its so incredible the Clarity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkEQaP0N14A

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See and buy my Photos at: momentsofnaturephotography.com A detailed comparison between thses nikon cameras. this review was made to help people choose which camera is right for them.
Video Rating: 4 / 5