People are becoming more and more familiar with SLR cameras as new ones enter the market everyday. Now, digital SLR cameras are not as common as other types of cameras, and have usually been used more by professional photographers.
It was inevitable and necessary. I refer of course to the inclusion of the cleaning system sensor that Canon has developed and, for the first time, has installed on a SLR. Apart from the 10 megapixels or pricing discrepancies, there is no doubt that the EOS 400D is the company’s response to a demand for a automatic dust cleaning system, that allows photographers to focus exclusively on taking pictures.
Maybe the new users that come first to the world of interchangeable lens cameras (SLRs) will not attach greater importance to this detail and prefer to focus on value for money offered by the cameras. However, with the inclusion of the cleaning system, Canon has managed to kill two birds or flecks of dust with one stone: First of all, to become more competitive with other manufacturers already offering this feature, and tempting more automatic compact camera users to the SLR fold.
That is why, given the striking similarities in the EOS 400D with its predecessor, in addition to the new cleaning mechanism the current SLR landscape is changing.
The aforementioned cleaning system is based on two separate actions for the same purpose. On the one hand, the sensor-or rather, the Low Pass Filter, has a special coating that seeks to prevent dust particles from attaching to it.
The optical zoom is 3.7x and you can go with the digital zoom up to 4x. The photos are saved in JPEG format and the ISO varies between 80 and 1600. You can choose between manual and auto exposure and it also comes with lens-shift image stabilization. The lowest prices you can find them at is $300.
The EOS 50D is the latest model offered by Canon and it’s the replacement for the 40D model. It comes with the DIGIC 4 image processor, an LCD screen that has 3 inches and a CMOS sensor of 15 megapixels.
The ISO can go as high as 12800, it has an EF/EF-S lens mount and you can save photos both in RAW and JPEG formats. It’s an expensive camera though, as you have to spend around $1200 on it.
This camera was launched as competition to other DSLR cameras that are entry-level. Though it’s based on the 450D model, it’s a cheaper version, that still has some of the good features (very good ISO, Live View preview, saving files as RAW or JPEG). The price is around $500.