5 Comments for Canon EOS 6.3MP Digital Rebel Camera with 18-55mm Lens

• 1. Pecan Bob  |  November 17th, 2009 at 8:15 am

  When I received this from Amazon and went thru several test shots I was amazed at how good it really was.
  Rating: 2 / 5

• 2. Anonymous  |  November 17th, 2009 at 10:52 am

  disappointed that i waited for a week before i was informed product was not available. had received email confirms that order was to be shipped and then no word, then i emailed for status and was informed it was a cancelled order. i bought it somewhere else the day i found out and paid extra to ensure it shipped in time for xmas. a very unprofessional transaction. the camera is fantastic. my boyfriend can’t stop taking photos. but i wont buy from this place again – too risky, poor communication.
  Rating: 1 / 5

• 3. Anonymous  |  November 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

  I tried. I really tried. Circuit City has a pretty poor return-to-exchange program for cameras, 14 days!??! and it took me longer than that to find out that my camera has AF problems.

  You don’t have to look very far on the net to see that a *significant* fraction of Canon 300D and 10D camera buyers are finding that the cameras do not always produce sharp pictures. For those so stricken, it is a toss up whether the picture they are about to take will have focus at the right spot, or the wrong spot, or be overall much too soft (”soft” is too kind – shot through a vaseline coated lens is almost a better description). Such a life is miserable. If you can’t trust your camera, then photography becomes torture.

  The camera and lenses are clearly capable of sharp pictures, I have a number that came out, but I could not rely on it. Buying more lenses in an effort to get around or test the problem just sunk me into a black hole of expenditure and confounded me further as the camera refused to obey any consistent pattern of misbehavior.

  User error you say? I’m not some point and shooter who has never seen an SLR before, nor someone from film who is pleased with 4×6″ prints that look sharp. I’ve used an F707 for a year and bad digitals before that, and good SLRs before that as well. I know an out of focus picture when I see one! I know canon tends to slightly blur even perfectly focused pictures to achieve a “naturalistic” look, but that is not the problem I saw. I saw that AF point of focus was not repeatable, that AF strips were much too big, that spot AF was if anything less accurate that auto-AF, and on top of that, if the camera did the right thing, then Canon zoom glass was a pretty poor show at 6 megapixels unless you worried constantly about aperture and extreme zooms.

  On top of all this I read (but do not care) that the camera has exposure issues when using the flash, and have the white balance on “auto” is worse than useless unless it is a sunny day. Lastly, the camera went through a phase when its firmware ate entire sub-folders of pictures on my 1gb CF card.

  Unfortunately, after reading about others with focus and softness issues with the Canon 10D (which shares basically the same sensor and system as the 300D) I had no confidence that Canon would acknowledge there was a problem with my example or a problem with the model, and no interest in waiting weeks in the hope they might be nice. So I sold the lot, at a ridiculous loss, and am retiring to lick my wounds and wait until Canon sorts out its production line quality control problems or is exposed for making a camera that does not have tolerances up to its megapixels.

  It is obscene for Canon to suggest that anyone who wants to see accurate focus down the pixel level at a mere 6mp spend thousands on “L” series lenses, or thousands on the 1D.

  Good luck on your purchase, maybe you’ll get one that can AI focus correctly and does not suffer the problems I saw. Or perhaps if you’re coming from cheap digitals or from basic film you won’t notice the problems, and are the ideal customer for Canon! I’m missing my F707 badly and waiting for the next round of those types of cameras before getting back. Or perhaps I’ll pickup a second-hand F717 while people trade up to the F828.

  A digital SLR is nice for action shots, the mirror slap sound is cool (although does it add to camera shake?), but the cost of glass and the amount of equipment necessary for decent shots is extraordinary.
  Rating: 2 / 5

• 4. Rose Reyes  |  November 17th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

  This is an amazing camera and the first d-SLR to be priced below $1000. Wow.
  Rating: 5 / 5

• 5. ning  |  November 17th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

  I bought this camera 2 weeks ago.It’s kind of fun,but just for beginners only! If you are a serious photogrpher, don’t waste your money on it!
  Rating: 2 / 5

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