Eos 550d 1100D Review
The underside-finish from the interchangeable lens camera is becoming very competitive with producers culling features and cutting-corners to provide a tempting upgrade path from compact cameras, at most attractive cost. Consequently we have seen control dials, orientation sensors as well as focus motors disappear to lessen the manufacturing costs of those entry-level, gateway cameras. In the consumer's perspective, obviously, we have also seen technologies once only within the achieve from the professionals filter lower to just about compact camera prices.
For quite some time, Canon after which Nikon could carve in the sub-$1000 Digital slr market between themselves, with no particular worry about other gamers on the market. But this hegemony never was prone to last, especially when the electronics titans for example Panasonic, The new sony and Samsung had time for you to prepare their very own rivals. Eventually even Canon needed to react to the appearance of those companies' progressively impressive low-finish choices, most particularly using the splitting of their Digital rebel series right into a multiple model range.
In June 2008, instead of just letting the outgoing model's cost drop once the next camera was introduced, Canon released a totally new model that sitting below its then very recent Digital rebel XSi/450D. The Digital rebel XS (Eos 550d 1000D in Europe) was unashamedly a cut-lower version from the XSi nevertheless its combination of a highly reliable sensor and compelling cost have experienced it still sell strongly, particularly in the cost-conscious finish from the market.
Two-and-a-half years is almost two lives in contemporary camera terms, therefore it was starting to seem like the XS might turn to be considered a one-off, before launch of their alternative in Feb 2011. The Digital rebel T3 (Eos 550d 1100D) develops a effective formula and takes it further, offering a powerful (otherwise exactly cutting-edge) group of features inside a body that indicates it ought to be very able to competing on cost.
The 1100D takes a number of familiar-sounding components and folds them together inside a noticeably conventional but nonetheless capable-sounding package. So there is a 12MP CMOS nick that's likely up to now to the 450D/XSi, combined with Canon's now-standard 9-point AF system and also the 63-area iFCL (Focus, color and luminance sensitive) metering system first observed in the Eos 550d 7D. These mix using the as well-known Digic 4 processor to provide a camera that's unlikely to provide much when it comes to surprises (that ought to also mean the avoidance associated with a nasty ones).
Canon EOS 1100D specification highlights:
- 12MP CMOS sensor
- 9-point AF system (up from 7 on the 1000D)
- 63-area iFCL color-sensitive metering (from EOS 7D)
- 720p movie recording at 30 or 25fps (H.264 compression)
- 2.7" LCD, 230,000 dots
- ISO 100-6400 (no expansion)
- Basic+ creative point-and-shoot mode
- Eye-Fi wireless SD card compatible menu options
