Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi

I am using the camera with a 35-80mm Canon lens which I had used with my Rebel, and so far that lens is suiting me fine.

Although the lens that comes with the camera is pretty basic and different lenses will require a lot more investment!

I miss the ease of the point and shoot, and the size, but I love being able to use interchangeable lenses.

And with the sports setting, you are more likely to get a sharp image when there is lots of motion.

Here you can see the advantage of using the Landscape Picture Style when shooting shots with a lot of folliage and blue skies, with a more pleasing green color hue and stronger overall color response.

I am a former pro, in the fiel of industrial photography, and I used to work whith medium and a large format cameras getting along whith high quality.

I bought the Rebel EOS Digital XTi 400D to upgrade my almost 3-year old Rebel EOS Digital 300D (which, by the way, is still a great camera).

After going through 3 generations of Canon compact digital cameras (s410 being the last and still working after 2.5 years), I am very glad to finally have made the investment in a digital SLR camera.

This camera has everything that you need, has been easy to learn how to use (it's my first digital camera), and takes great pictures.

I like the iso/burst mode and other controls handy on the backadn also the larger screen is a nice.

The quality of images taken is superb, and you have the option of saving to Canon's RAW format, for which Canon has delivered RAW viewers for both Windows Vista and XP.

Although increasing the resolution over same image sensor area can increase noise, Canon has improved the sensor technology to maintain low noise floor and high dynamic range.

Good looking camera with good handling (It looks just like the XSI to me, except smaller lcd screen).

LCD screen is awesome.

And with a quick touch up in Adobe Lightroom, I'm turning out very good quality pictures (in my beginner opinion) with very little work required.