Canon EOS Rebel T1i Digital Camera Review

While not brand new and released from Canon about a year ago this past April, the Canon T1i can be a perfect and small compact digital SLR that’s priced and ships with a image stabilized zoom lens for about $750.00 from  most online vendors. While pricier than compact cameras, the T2i can  take your photography to an entirely different level due to the DSLR format, you’ll enjoy faster startup and  less lag time and the T2i is fully compatible with a wide selection of lenses and flash units. The T1i works well as a stand alone camera, or you can use it to grow your dslr system as your photographic skills improve and your budget allows.

The T1i was one of the first digital SLRs to offer High definition video recording, as well as still photography. The high definition video is recorded at a full 1920×1080 digital resolution and can be viewed in all it’s high def glory on your high definition TV using the built in HDMI output allowing you to share  your movies with friends and family.

With 15.1 megapixels, the Canon T1i beats many other digital SLR’s in the megapixel war – even more expensive digital SLR’s that are aimed at the more advanced and even professional digital cameras. The T1i is hard to beat if you value a high megapixel  count.

But there’s more to buying a digital camera than just counting pixels. More important features such as handling speed, autofocus speed exposure and other modes should mean more than just the resolution of a digital camera.

the T1i offers these features: Using  the high end digic iv processor, the T2i is a fast and responsive digital DSLR from Canon that also offers some pretty neat features such as a bright 3 inch LCD display, a ‘live view’ function so you can use the display to compose your photos – just like you would with a point and shoot digital camera and an array of autofocus modes including face detection, so your friend  and family will always look their best when shooting with the T1i.

Included with the camera body, is an 18-55 image stabilized zoom lens, that due to the smaller sensor used in the T1i, works out to be about  a 28mm to 80mm (approx) zoom lens that is a great starter lens for this digital camera, as both wide angle and telephoto ranges are included with Canon T1i digital camera kit. One of the most important features of this lens is that it was built for the EOS system cameras and offers image stabilization that results in sharper photos that you may not get otherwise.  And due to the DSLR format as your skills and needs grow, you can exchange lens and add to your Canon digital camera system as your photographic needs grow.

The Canon EOS T1i with 18-55mm lens is an excellent peformer  that included a high megapixel count,  HD video recording and sharing, and modern digital camera features such as face detection, live view,  and fast startup and almost no lag time. The suggested retail price on the Canon T1i digital camera is $899, but with a bit of shopping at Amazon, Ritz, B+H and Adorama you can do much better on price and save $100 or more off the retail list price  on the Canon T1i.