Your Questions About Canon Rebel Xti

rob answers:

That mostly depends on what you shoot. Portraits? Sports? Landscapes? Macro? More details, please.

P.S. Read the link below. It will help you understand camera lenses and probably will help you make your decision on a lens along the way.

Http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-lenses.htm

It also wouldn’t hurt to pick up a book or read a site about DSLR cameras and/or lenses.

rob answers:

The Canon Rebel XTi is the world’s most popular digital single-lens reflex camera. The Rebel XTi is compact, lightweight, rugged, inexpensive, responsive, and compatible with dozens of the world’s best lenses.

Both cameras would do well in nature and portraiture. What the biggest deciding factor would be (for me) is what kind of lens I could afford on top of the kit lens it comes with. An image is only going to be as sharp as the lens it was shot with. That being said I would get the XT and spend the extra $200 on a better lens.

Now also think about what would probably be “whats a better lens”. I would suggest a 50mm f/1.8 lens. It doesnt zoom (fixed focal point) so you would have to use your feet to get closer, but the f/1.8 part of it means it takes pics in much lower light, and it can get the background to blur really well in those portrait shots. I have an XTi with a 50mm lens, and if I knew what I know now when I bought the XTi I probably would have bought an XT and got a better lens.

I Also have a Nikon F80 hehe.

rob answers:

It is not the camera but the photographer.

I have a link to a friends glamour website and he uses an old Rebel XT ..

If you like I will forward it to you.

rob answers:

If you don’t mind taking the camera out of the fully automatic modes and venturing towards P, Av, Tv, M, or A Dep. Modes you have this thing called Picture Styles. Press the center OK button on the back of your camera and you have access to which one you want to shoot in. You can even download more Picture Styles off of Canon of Japan’s website. Http://www.canon.co.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/download.html That addresses colors.

The contrast is accessed in the menus. It’s in the picture styles and you can up the contrast there.

If you shoot in RAW format rather than Jpeg you can do all of these adjustments in the computer. You can even take a black and white picture (shot in RAW) and revert it back to color. You can’t do that with a Jpeg.

Another thing that helps is getting a proper white balance. Refer to your manual for instructions on both these things. Http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=139&modelid=14257#DownloadDetailAct

rob answers:

Why don’t you just switch your current lens to manual focus?