Canon EOS 550D is a product of hard to categorize. With the excuse, is designed to attract first time DSLR buyers and fans, it offers more technology and a higher price than we would expect for a camera in the sector. Although it seem logical to replace the EOS 550D to 500D, old cameras in the Canon lineup that the 550D between the initial model (sandwich left nor represented by the EOS 1000D and 500D-time) and enthusiastic par (with co-EOS 50D continued) . However, confusing, other than build quality (which is anything but identical to the EOS 500D), 550D has more in common with the prosumer EOS 7D, and – perhaps even more confusing – and the determination of the EOS 50D in many areas.
Center with impressive specifications of the EOS 550D is a high-spec movie mode offers the full HD recording of up to 30 fps, manual control over exposure and the opportunity to use an external stereo microphone. The new camera also inherited the EOS 7D sophisticated metering system (which brought him much closer to the same position for Nikon SLR).
So why risk cannibalizing Canon 7D apparent turnover with the publication of such same-specced, low-end model? Find Now, Canon “entry level” DSLR-way back in 2003 with attractive prizes (for the time), EOS 300D, but recently, this sector is fairly crowded market. Far from enjoying a monopoly, Canon, like all manufacturers, stiff, with a view of a battle, that their products stand out among many of their colleagues. To this end, Canon EOS 550D all the stops with the Rebel-made specced and produce the highest we have ever seen.
Canon EOS 550D/Rebel T2i is the successor to the EOS 500D / T1i features a 18 megapixels APS-C CMOS sensor, DIGIC 4 processor with ISO 100-6400 (Expansion to 12800), Continuous shooting at 3.7fps, Full HD movie recording with manual control and selectable frame rates, iFCL metering System with 63-zone Dual-layer Metering Sensor, Exposure compensation +/-5 stops, and a 7.7cm (3.0”) 3:2 Clear View LCD with 1,040k dots.
Canon EOS 550D/Rebel T2i Video Review by WDC;
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Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i / Kiss X4 Digital) Review
On April - 3 - 2010
