Canon EOS 450D - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Powerful and versatile entry-level digital SLR camera offers terrific image quality.

Pros: Easy to navigate basic features, Many pro-quality features

Cons: Complicated options may confound newbies

Verdict: The Canon Digital Rebel XSi stands out as a versatile digital SLR that is easily navigable on the surface but also offers powerful options, some that you may never even get to. Once you get the hang of the basics, this camera has the depth to take ...

Review summary: Outdoing its semi-pro 10-megapixel Eos 40D as well as the Eos 400D, Canon's new mid-range Eos 450D features a higher resolution 12.2-megapixel Cmos sensor with automated dust removal, 14-bit colour capture, and a new, larger 3in LCD with Live View. ...

Verdict: Like the makers' other offerings, the Eos 450D is very likeable in use and for the most part produces stunningly detailed images. The few niggles aren't deal-breakers, but the current pricing in the UK with Canon's cash-back offers on the 40D pitches ...

Review summary: The Canon Digital Rebel XSi is an update to last year's XTi that ups the resolution to 12.2 megapixels and adds a handful of other new features, including a bigger 3-inch screen, an improved autofocus system, and optical image stabilization in the kit ...

Pros: - Big, bright 3-inch LCD screen - Great on-screen menus - Very good image quality - Lightweight and easy to hold - Live view works well - Image stabilization in the kit lens

Cons: - Autofocus is slow with the kit lens - Manual controls are a little awkward - Focusing in live view adds to the shooting time - Camera body feels fragile

Review summary: Canon EOS Rebel XSi advertising campaign : In full support of the Company's two leading digital camera brands, Canon USA launched the first of two new television commercials to support the Canon EOS Rebel and Canon PowerShot digital camera lines. The ...

Award: Highly Recommended!

Review summary: The Canon EOS 450D (also known as the Digital Rebel XSi) is the successor to the popular EOS 400D DSLR camera, and it offers a number of significant improvements that Canon hope will fight off the ever-increasing competition. The inevitable resolution ...

Verdict: The Canon EOS 450D is the fourth model in the best selling digital SLR series of all time, and as with many recent DSLR launches (with the exception of Nikon, who have raised their game considerably), it refines a winning blueprint, rather than ...