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After some time for me to explore the camera I now have a review of the new Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i (500D). This camera is the latest in the Digital Rebel series (what I call value priced pro consumer models). It falls in the $600 to $800 range, depending on accessories and lenses.
For me, the T1i was a giant leap up in megapixels. My first digital camera was the trend setting original 6.3 Megapixel 300D Digital Rebel that I have used for thousands of pictures over the last several years. It worked great for me and I skipped many an upgrade until the market reached the 15+ megapixel range. Then, my wonderful wife gave me a great birthday gift of this new camera.
I ordered it from Amazon, got it in several days and started to shoot right away. The first thing I had to remember is that the camera kit with the 18-55 EF-S lens did not include a flash media device (it used SDHC cards). Now what was Canon thinking? If I had not remembered to read the fine print, I would have been waiting to pick one up before I could take my first picture. This is like buying a car, but they did not include the tires.
Well, with that out of the way, the camera is great. It has a 3" LCD screen in the back that displays not only your pictures in review, but the settings you have. On most counts, the T1i offers some pretty nice specifications, highlighted by the 15-megapixel APS-C size CMOS sensor (for Canon's traditional 1.6x focal-length multiplier) and same nine-point user-selectable autofocus system as the predecessor XSi. The APS-C size sensor means that it is a "cropped" sensor that captures a slightly smaller view than traditional 35mm cameras or the Canon big professional cameras costing in the over $2500 range. I drool thinking about the possibilities.
The camera has received very good reviews regarding its image quality and I can say that the human photographer is the only weak point in getting a good shot. It has the full range of image sizes from small.jpg to RAW. I shoot almost entirely in RAW mode (this saves a very big file, but has all the information available for use in Photoshop).
One really great feature is that it shoots video too. Though not quite as robust as on the EOS 5D Mark II, which supports 30fps for its 1080p capture, the T1i's video still surpasses that of the Nikon D5000 that is limited to 24fps 720p. The movie quality is solid, but I stick with the 30fps 720p and avoid the High Definition mode of 1,920x1,080 because it is only 20fps, and the motion looks a bit jerky. You can manually invoke AF while you are shooting, which is useful, but remember that it's slow and creaky. Initiating focus creates some jerkiness, but at least you do not have to stop, focus, and restart; I definitely prefer having the option. Like many of the low-end implementations, it uses mono audio (there is no mic input).
I had the opportunity to shoot a major men's tennis tournament in October and got some great shots of tennis legends Todd Martin, Andre Agassi and Jimmy Arias (among others). The camera was great in less than perfect lighting for the night matches. I used the Auto ISO setting and it stretched the settings of the camera to be fast enough to catch the action with some very artistic blur of the ball and racquets. The daylight matches allowed me to set the camera at very fast shutter speeds and freeze those yellow tennis balls in mid flight and the players in mid stroke with feet off the ground.
Those Auto ISO setting got me in trouble several weeks later when I was in the mountains trying to get shots of the fall colors with Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB). I have used AEB before and it works great and allow some great opportunity for HDR merging of shots later. However, it is only logical if you are shooting in Auto-bracketing you have to turn Auto ISO Off lest all the auto configurations conflict and create an image that averages out everything to its most dull form. Now I know better.
All in all the Canon T1i is great camera for more advanced amateurs and the cost challenged professionals. I will stick with this one until I can figure out how to get one of the Canon big boys. I look forward to many years of shooting and learning about how to capture nature's beauty in a digital image.
Randy Jackson is an experienced Arizona photographer. His photography is about nature and events such as public functions and sports. He writes about photography and technology on his blog and displays his work at a photography site. More information can be gleaned about Randy at his blog: Random Thoughts of a Photographer.
New York Sports
New York City is most definitely a city that loves its sports and cheers for the home team. New York is probably the best represented city and state in this country when it comes to major league teams. I've never quite seen anything like it but I honestly can't imagine a night when there isn't some sort of major sporting event taking place somewhere in this great city.
The National Hockey League that almost wasn't is back and going strong. New York is represented well by the Ranger's who have made a wonderful deal this year to woo Shanahan away from the Red Wings. They play their home games at Madison Square Garden and have some of the most loyal fans. Even if you're say from Detroit and visiting, and if the Rangers are playing at home then it's the perfect opportunity (assuming you can get a ticket) to drop in and see how Shanahan is adjusting to life in the Big Apple and if he misses life back at the Joe.
Putting hockey aside for now, there are many other professional sports you can enjoy watching while you're visiting New York City. I think there are a few baseball fans in this city somewhere. I say a few because it seems that they had to create two baseball teams in order to contain all the fans. I will say though that these fans are loyal to a fault to the teams they support. The New York Mets and the New York Yankees represent this great city in Major League Baseball and both teams draw loyal support from all their fans.
The amazing thing to me is that the double-teaming didn't end with baseball. It seems that New York City also has two National Football League teams as well. The New York Giants and the New York Jets both represent this fair city to football fans across the country. While I have no favorite or even preference for all these teams and really have no idea how a city can survive with this sort of heated division. Obviously they aren't as rabid as some hockey fans can tend to be or there would be civil war within the streets.
All joking aside, it seems that so far there is only one NBA team and they are the New York Knicks. I won't go into how unfair it is to so improperly represent hockey and basketball because these guys might actually be getting the better end of the bargain-the entire city roots for them, not just half. With so many major sporting opportunities it's amazing that men in this city get anything at all accomplished without carrying a portable pocket television with them at all times.
I don't know about your house, but in my house it's difficult enough to schedule important events in our family lives around one local team for each sport (and we don't even have a baseball team). I can't imagine how women in New York do it. But to all of you women and the men you love, I have to say kudos for supporting your great teams and giving your many visitors such wonderful opportunities to watch our sports when we're away from home too. It's hard to identify one thing about this city that is the greatest but that just may be it.
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Which of the following items do you own?
A random survey... yes.
1) coconut
2) Beatles CD or LP
3) A giant lollipop like this: http://www.sweetiesonline.com.au/products/2006080721lolly-pop-large.jpg
4) Tutu
5) Tennis racquet
6) Something Bob Marley related (CD, poster, etc.)
I have 1, 2, 5, & 6.
I used to have a 3 & 4.
I have 1, 2, 5, & 6.
I used to have 3 & 4.
lol double post ^___^
1)No
2) ALL OF THEM (:
3) no
4) yes
5) YES
6 yes
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