What is better buy? Canon EOS 450D Digital Rebel XTi or Canon EOS Rebel XSi ?

by jbdenham

I want to buy a camera somewhere between $ 400-$ 600 with excellent record footage,quick shots,view finder…all that. lol. What do you recommend?

Answer by ✰VanGorkum◈Photography✰
Well first off, the 450D and the XSi are the same business.

Sensor wise, here are the cameras compared: http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Camera-Sensor/Compare/Compare-sensors/%28appareil1%29/185|0/%28appareil2%29/184|0/%28appareil3%29/|0/%28onglet%29/0/%28brand%29/List/%28brand2%29/List/%28brand3%29/List

Answer by Skye
In case you didn’t know about it, Snapsort.com is a really excellent website for comparing cameras.
Here’s their comparison of the two models in question:
http://snapsort.com/compare/Canon_EOS_Digital_Rebel_XSi-vs-Canon_EOS_Digital_Rebel_XTi

Looking at that, I’d say the XSi is what I’d choose. I’ve used the XTi and it is a nice camera but it is older and is lacking a small in features. These features aren’t absolutely necessary obviously but they’re certainly nice to have and I don’t reckon you’d pay that much more for the XSi than the XTi, so the only reason I would consider the XTi is if you’re really on a budget and you can find it for a much lower price than the XSi. BTW, hope you’re okay with buying used because both of these cameras are discontinued, so you’d have a hard time result them in supplies, but you may maybe maybe find them new on Ebay.

I just realized though that you said you wanted excellent record footage, and neither of these cameras take record….so you might want to look around a bit more if you want record. Maybe look at the Nikons, such as the D3100, D5000, or D90, all take record. The Rebel T1i, T2i, and new T3i all take very nice record as well, a small more expensive, but you may maybe try and find a excellent deal on the used market.

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No Parking #2


Image by jbdenham
View On Black

List EOS Rebel XSi, EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS, f3.5, ISO400, 18mm, HDR, 5 Exposures

Another shot from the REST garage and another No Parking sign, this one life much harder to read than the first one, which is here. Again, more repetition on the round pillars, but the front one is the only one with a sign on it, or maybe, the only one with an official sign. What can I say, I find this area fascinating.

There’s a lot of grit here on and around the pillar. I like the gnarly grass around the base – looks nearly like steel wool! The rust on the pillar and the chipped up concrete are also reasonably fascinating. The wood paneled ceiling has many places in it that leaks water from the street above, but this particular area is not one of them.

Busy Weekend

This weekend marked a couple of firsts for my photography growth. Saturday, November 6, marked my first ever photo shoot, taking family pictures for their holiday cards and some candid portraits. It was reasonably stressful to be honest. I was not comfortable with the light and the whole business was a bit disorganized. This was mostly my fault for not knowing exactly what the family was looking until time to shoot, not knowing the area and the best places to take pictures there, and not life really experienced with the right light for portraits.

The family, but, was very simple going and made it considerably less stressful than expected. After downloading the images and doing some basic control in Camera RAW, I was much more comfortable with the results and reckon there’s some excellent stuff there. We’ll end the control this week and see where it goes!

The additional first is my print show at the Dunn Bros Coffee in Oakdale, MN. This particular store is very close to my work and one of my colleagues place me in touch with the owner back in April, she liked my work and scheduled me in to have my work showed on her walls from 11/8 to 1/3/11 – nearly 2 months! 15 prints were hung this afternoon, but not without stress! It was hard, especially life a vertically challenged man – I’m not tall! Did get them hung up, though, and they look fantastic! We’ll see if it produces anything!

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I want to exchange it to the fastest speed but I don’t know how.

Answer by Eclipse
You’ve got two (2) choices on how you want to do this.

First, you can any place the camera in shutter priority (Tv) mode which will let you exchange the shutter speed with your mandate dial. In this mode, the camera will automatically exchange the aperture for proper exposure. if the aperture value is flashing in your viewfinder, it earnings that maximum aperture value isn’t wide enough to realize proper exposure. You may have to lower your shutter speed, boost your ISO, add a flash or all three to get proper exposure.

The alternative is to place the camera in manual (M) mode. Again, turning the mandate dial allows you to exchange shutter speed. But you will then need to press/hold the Av button to manually exchange the aperture for assess exposure. All the same issues mentioned above still apply. 1/4000th of a second is a very high shutter speed and it’s one that generally requires reasonably a bit of light for proper exposure.

Answer by Ansell A
SHUTTER speed!!!

Repeat after me, WHEN I BUY A NEW CAMERA I MUST READ THE MANUAL.

It can be found here http://www.usa.list.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=139&modelid=16303#DownloadDetailAct
at the bottom of the guides and manuals section.

Answer by cubfan745
Eclipse has it assess. Use Shutter priority (Tv) to take control of the shutter.

The business that some public overlook when they reckon about quick shutter speeds is the fact that a proper exposure is a combination of the shutter speed, aperture background and ISO background.

A proper exposure earnings enough light lands on the sensor to get a bright image – something that looks like the scene you are photographing. Changing your ISO can make your camera more sensitive to light so you need less of it, but it comes at the expense of noise/clarity of the image. On your Rebel 450, I wouldn’t go past ISO 400 if you intend to enlarge a print.

As you increase your shutter speed, it earnings less and less is going through to the sensor (because the shutter is moving nearer). To compensate, the aperture – the hole the light comes through – must be made larger and larger so more light comes through in less time. There is a limit as to how huge the hole can get (though it varies by lens) so there is a limit as to how quick you can practically set a shutter speed.

The more sun outside, the nearer you can go with your shutter.

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