New Digital Camera Body!
March 20th, 2007 by Jerry
With the addition of my new lenses into my collection, it became obvious that my trusty but dated Drebel (300d) was sorely out-matched. Since Canon decided not to release a 40D, I decided that the Rebel XTi was the right body to upgrade to. The 30D is nice, but I’m not obsessed with the alloy body and the newer features offered by the XTi at a lower price were too hard to pass up.
The biggest difference is the startup time. The old Drebel took over 2 seconds to get to where it could take a picture after turning it on or waking it up. At the time, it was just the way things were, but now Canon cameras can start up fast enough that you hardly can notice a delay. The published time is 0.2 seconds – faster than I can move my finger from the power switch to the shutter button. I don’t really notice much difference in picture quality, but most of their improvements are probably in high ISO exposures. The image buffer is much bigger, so I can take almost limitless JPEGs and 9 or 10 RAWs in a row.
One peculiar thing though – when taking a picture, after the mirror and shutter do their thing, there is an extra “ZZT” sound. It sounds remarkably like a film drive, which is a little absurd. I haven’t been able to figure out what part of the camera could be making such a sound.