Comments on: Canon Digital Rebel XSi 12.2 MP Digital SLR Camera http://www.cameralocker.com/blog/2009/12/04/canon-digital-rebel-xsi-12-2-mp-digital-slr-camera/ Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:48:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Wendy L. Ortwerth http://www.cameralocker.com/blog/2009/12/04/canon-digital-rebel-xsi-12-2-mp-digital-slr-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Wendy L. Ortwerth Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:57:00 +0000 http://www.cameralocker.com/blog/?p=10#comment-16 I recently purchased this SLR with standard lens through Amazon, and have been massively disappointed. I previously owned a Powershot A540, and this SLR is no better than it, for five or six times the money. <br /> <br />1)The camera will regularly not take pictures. Despite the fact that the subject is in focus, the shutter will not release. You press the shutter button, and nothing happens. You press it again, nothing happens, etc. At times, the camera will simply not function. <br /> <br />2) The delay between pictures is ridiculous. The delay on the point and shoot camera was already bad enough. But it's worse on this SLR. It regularly says it is busy and won't do anything. I miss all kinds of pictures waiting for this camera to let me take another picture again. <br /> <br />3) The image stabilization system is a joke. I have just as many blurry pictures on this camera as the point and shoot. <br /> <br />4) The 9-point automatic focus sytem is also useless. This camera is just as bad as the point and shoot at focusing on only one thing and leaving everything else out of focus. <br /> <br />5) This camera will not take closeup pictures. The closeup setting on this camera is meaningless. I can take pictures closer to the subject with my point and shoot than with this camera. <br /> <br />6) The continuous shooting feature of this camera is worthless. Why is it that it only works on the Portrait mode? What good is that? Why not just admit you don't have a continuous shooting feature? <br /> <br />7) Unlike other SLR's, you have to look through the viewfinder to frame a shot, because the LCD screen does not show you what you are shooting. While the LCD may not be a completely accurate depiction of the picture being taken, in most cases it is a sufficient and convenient guide, rather than having to squint throug a small viewfinder. <br /> <br />I have increasingly come to the conclusion that Canon is an inferior camera manufacturer. I only wish I had known that before I spent over $700 on this piece of junk. Rating: 1 / 5 I recently purchased this SLR with standard lens through Amazon, and have been massively disappointed. I previously owned a Powershot A540, and this SLR is no better than it, for five or six times the money.

1)The camera will regularly not take pictures. Despite the fact that the subject is in focus, the shutter will not release. You press the shutter button, and nothing happens. You press it again, nothing happens, etc. At times, the camera will simply not function.

2) The delay between pictures is ridiculous. The delay on the point and shoot camera was already bad enough. But it’s worse on this SLR. It regularly says it is busy and won’t do anything. I miss all kinds of pictures waiting for this camera to let me take another picture again.

3) The image stabilization system is a joke. I have just as many blurry pictures on this camera as the point and shoot.

4) The 9-point automatic focus sytem is also useless. This camera is just as bad as the point and shoot at focusing on only one thing and leaving everything else out of focus.

5) This camera will not take closeup pictures. The closeup setting on this camera is meaningless. I can take pictures closer to the subject with my point and shoot than with this camera.

6) The continuous shooting feature of this camera is worthless. Why is it that it only works on the Portrait mode? What good is that? Why not just admit you don’t have a continuous shooting feature?

7) Unlike other SLR’s, you have to look through the viewfinder to frame a shot, because the LCD screen does not show you what you are shooting. While the LCD may not be a completely accurate depiction of the picture being taken, in most cases it is a sufficient and convenient guide, rather than having to squint throug a small viewfinder.

I have increasingly come to the conclusion that Canon is an inferior camera manufacturer. I only wish I had known that before I spent over $700 on this piece of junk.
Rating: 1 / 5

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