Ordered Canon Rebel XTi

As I suspected, Canon is bringing its 10 Megapixel CMOS sensor to the Digital Rebel line . I preordered mine from Amazon .

Despite the many rebates Canon has been offering in the past couple of months (down to $500 for the Rebel XT body-only), I could not bring myself to buy an SLR to move up from 7.1 Megapixels (SD550) to 8 Megapixels, and I didn’t want the size of the 5D or its price.

This is ideal!

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By Dave

He was born in Canada, but currently lives in Boulder, CO up in Boulder Heights.

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Have you received the camera yet? Any initial impressions? I just pre-ordered mine today, but, being in Canada, will have to wait a few more days for it to be released and shipped. I also have the SD550, and love it, it will be interesting to see how much I use the SD550.

Nothing yet…. Release date was "September", but Aaazon still says October 20.

Should have arrived today…. Will post review when I try it (I’m in Europe).

I’ve been playing with it for a day (got back from Europe yesterday), still working out the features. Here’s a preliminary first take.

It’s FAST. I mean, really fast, startup and repeat mode are alarming with a 10 megapixel capture.
Just bought a 2 GB Ultra II SanDisk compacflash for it. (On sale at Costco until Sept 24 at $79.99-$15). 2GB=444 pics at highest resolution.
Ultrasonic cleaning happens when you turn it off. Cool.
Need to figure out how to make the LCD display the image. It doesn’t by default, which means I have to start using the viewfinder (how old fashioned….)
I’m trying to get all-risks insurance to reduce the deductible to zero on this camera, so that I’m not afraid to take it out and play.

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