It's Official: Canon Rebel T1i

I suppose that my main question here would be - if the 40d for a similar price would be a "better" camera than the 500d. I am interested in the video capabilites. I am interested in the lower weight of the 500d. I am not sure that I will ever have need or occassion to shoot at 1/8000 second or that I would need a shutter rated for 200K actuations. And I don't believe that I would need 6 frames per second (3.5 frames per second is quite fast as well) but I also want an IQ at least that of the 40d. I mean, if the 2 cameras are approx the same price, but I gain all the above in addition to better ISO and IQ, I will sacrifice the weight and the video......

Am I making sense?

ceriltheblade wrote in post #7649856
I suppose that my main question here would be - if the 40d for a similar price would be a "better" camera than the 500d. I am interested in the video capabilites. I am interested in the lower weight of the 500d. I am not sure that I will ever have need or occassion to shoot at 1/8000 second or that I would need a shutter rated for 200K actuations. And I don't believe that I would need 6 frames per second (3.5 frames per second is quite fast as well) but I also want an IQ at least that of the 40d. I mean, if the 2 cameras are approx the same price, but I gain all the above in addition to better ISO and IQ, I will sacrifice the weight and the video......

Am I making sense?

It seems you have answered your own question. If the XSi is any indication, the T1i will have just as good IQ as the 40D. You seem to want a smaller lighter body, the T1i is that. You say 3.5 FPS is fine, the T1i does that too. You want video, check. You don't care about shutter life... okay, the T1i will probably be rated for at least 50k.

So the few things left are, the top LCD on the 40D, better/faster focusing with the 40D, pentaprism with better VF, the jog dial/ergonomics, user changeable focusing screens, and custom settings.

If you can live with that, then it looks like the T1i is your camera!

Or, you could get both. I want the new X1i for the video, but I will keep my 40D for stills.

I have been spending a lot of time on YouTube in the last few days. They have a couple pages of video shot with the X1i, from test cameras I assume. They look pretty darn good to me, even the HD @ 20fps looks OK and if you shoot a country pano scene instead of people walking at a street crossing, it should look darn good. I can't wait to use my wide angles and telephoto lenses on mine when I get it.

The Secondary LCD And the 6.5FPS on the 40D make me choose it over the T1i.

Joshh

MLphoto wrote in post #7649710
I'm so excited about this camera, as soon as I see them for sale I'm ordering one.

There are places you can pre-order already in the USA and UK that I'm aware of. Not sure about Canada yet.

We're tracking that over on our 500D/T1i buyer's guide

MLphoto wrote in post #7649710
I'm so excited about this camera, as soon as I see them for sale I'm ordering one.

Futureshop & Best Buy Canada has it on pre-order. Check thier site out.

http://www.futureshop.​ca …id=22553&logon=​&langid=EN

http://www.bestbuy.ca …INGFS10120034&c​atid=20222

I've seen some Canadian stores pre ordering the 270EX flash as well.

http://www.bccamera.co​m …th=11_18&produc​ts_id=3505

ceriltheblade wrote in post #7649856
I suppose that my main question here would be - if the 40d for a similar price would be a "better" camera than the 500d. I am interested in the video capabilites. I am interested in the lower weight of the 500d. I am not sure that I will ever have need or occassion to shoot at 1/8000 second or that I would need a shutter rated for 200K actuations. And I don't believe that I would need 6 frames per second (3.5 frames per second is quite fast as well) but I also want an IQ at least that of the 40d. I mean, if the 2 cameras are approx the same price, but I gain all the above in addition to better ISO and IQ, I will sacrifice the weight and the video......

Am I making sense?

You just basically described yourself as a 5D mark II user

That's what I said when i got my first dSLR. I didn't need this, I didn't need that. But as I got to learn on it..I really wanted more from it. Things that I thought I'd never want but end up wanting.

narci wrote in post #7652146
Futureshop & Best Buy Canada has it on pre-order. Check thier site out.

http://www.futureshop.​ca …id=22553&logon=​&langid=EN

http://www.bestbuy.ca …INGFS10120034&c​atid=20222

I've seen some Canadian stores pre ordering the 270EX flash as well.

http://www.bccamera.co​m …th=11_18&produc​ts_id=3505

I wanted to get the 500D with the 18-200 lens, it will cost a couple hundred bux more but worth it.

Cool I will keep money for this.

narci wrote in post #7652146
Futureshop & Best Buy Canada has it on pre-order. Check thier site out.

http://www.futureshop.​ca …id=22553&logon=​&langid=EN

http://www.bestbuy.ca …INGFS10120034&c​atid=20222

I've seen some Canadian stores pre ordering the 270EX flash as well.

http://www.bccamera.co​m …th=11_18&produc​ts_id=3505

I've seen Amazon UK Stores pre ordering for EOS 500D also check thier site out

Pre Order Canon Rebel T1i (EOS 500D) from Amazon UK

Henry's in Toronto has Body only for $999.99 CDN pre-order

http://www.henrys.com …oryId=10429&ite​mID=258002

Question...

Is it more safe to order the camera from a site for example like BH photo then ebay? just asking.

MLphoto wrote in post #7657377
Question...

Is it more safe to order the camera from a site for example like BH photo then ebay? just asking.

I believe E-bay is pretty sharp about keeping scammers out of their ranks, but an established store will be easier to deal with if you need to return something. Consider what happened to me recently. I ordered a Canon SX-10 IS, new from B&H. It got here, I opened the box and the camera was defective. Had a bad joy stick switch and would not play back the video. I called them, got a RMA, which took 5 days to get to me by e-mail, I sent it back and had to wait another several days for them to check it out and refund my money. I ordered another one. It arrived with the exact same defective part. I was pretty upset. Long story short, I got all my money back except the one day air shipping cost of the second one, but it took 30 days. From my perspective, I took it in the shorts and won't deal with B&H again, but, I did get the money back. Something to think about when dealing with an E-bay dealer.

MLphoto wrote in post #7657377
Question...

Is it more safe to order the camera from a site for example like BH photo then ebay? just asking.

You can get some good deals on ebay, but you can also get burned fairly easily. I used to buy a lot of things from ebay, but over the years, after a couple bad experiences, i decided to just spend a little more for the piece of mind of places like adorama or amazon

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JackProton wrote in post #7638771
What does this mean in terms of performance?

Yohan Pamudji wrote in post #7644767
How do you know it's software? Could be that the T1i has a smaller buffer than the 5DII. Or the processor has to be underclocked to not deplete the smaller battery too quickly. There are probably other possible hardware factors that would limit the T1i to 1080p/20, but those are a couple I can think of right away. I'm not saying it's not software; just that nobody knows.

Actually it seems more like a hardware limitation. Taken from http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/T1I​/T1IA.HTM :

"whereas the 50D's sensor has a four-channel readout, the Rebel T1i's sensor uses a 2-channel readout, which means that the image data will come off the T1i's sensor more slowly"

I'd imagine that's the reason 1080p shoots only at 20 fps and continuous shooting is 3.x fps instead of 6.x fps.