Canon 450D EOS Digital Rebel XSi Specifications
The information provided below is no longer pure speculation, the Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi has been announced at this year PMA (24 January 2008).The info provided here has become a comparison between what I’ve supposed the specifications will be and the actual product.
Considering the latest product releases from Canon, the Canon PowerShot G9, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III and Canon EOS 40D it seems that the successor of the 400D Digital Rebel XTi will have a price about 900-1000 USD (actually only $799 body and kit $899 - with 18-55 mm IS lens) and the following specifications:
- Max resolution: 4000 x 3000 (4272 x 2848 pixels, 3/2 aspect ratio instead of a 4/3)
- Effective pixels: 12 megapixels
- Sensor size: 22.2 x 14.8 mm
- Sensor type: CMOS
- ISO rating: 100 - 1600
- Auto Focus: Yes
- Manual Focus: Yes
- Auto focus type: Multi-BASIS TTL, 9 focus points (diamond shape) (9-point CMOS sensor, cross-type F2.8 at center)
- White balance override: 8 positions & manual preset (7 positions and manual preset)
- Min shutter: 30 sec + Bulb
- Max shutter: 1/4000 sec
- Built-in Flash: Yes
- External flash: Yes, hot-shoe & sync
- Flash modes: External
- Exposure compensation: -2 to +2 EV in 1/3 EV or 1/2 EV steps (-3 to +3 EV in 1/3 EV or 1/2 EV steps)
- Metering: TTL 35-zone SPC, center weighted, partial, spot
- Aperture priority: Yes
- Shutter priority: Yes
- Focal length multiplier: 1.6
- Lens thread: Canon EOS EF, EF-S mount
- Continuous Drive: Yes, 3 fps max 60 JPEG, 17 RAW (3.5 fps up to 53 JPEG / 6 RAW frames)
- Movie Clips: YES
- Self-timer: 10 sec or 2sec
- Storage types: Compact Flash (Type I or II) (SD / SDHC card)
- Uncompressed format: RAW
- Compressed format: JPEG (EXIF 2.2)
- Quality Levels: Fine, Normal
- Viewfinder: TTL
- LCD: 3″ with Live View
- Video out: Yes
- USB: Yes, 2.0
If you’ll check the whole list of improvements from the 400d to 450d you’ll be really impressed (like I was). There are only two things that might cause a problem (from my point of view):
The 450d has almost the same physical dimensions as the 400d, for my hands, it’s too small.
Image quality at 12 megapixels, a cropped sensor and the current lenses. It seems that if somebody would like to get the best out of this camera would be to buy very expensive Canon L series lenses. I really don’t think that the standard kit lens has enough resolution to cover this sensor (remember, the kit lens was first introduced on Canon 300D – only a 6 megapixels sensor)
However, overall, this is a very impressive camera. Considering the 14bit capability and the possible usage of L series lenses, this camera could provide the same image quality as a Canon 5D at only half the price!
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January 15th, 2008 at 7:58 am
what the hell are you on about…
no shit it will be able to have Aperture mode and shutter mode, that what SLRs are -about-
12mp, maybe. but video mode is just over the top. if you want video mode and pro-looking photos get a Canon G9
and i think that they may up the fps rate in the 450d, because that was one of the biggest downfalls for me as a photographer with the 400d - and also look for ISO 3200 via cf.
i dont think there will be much difference between them