Reviewing the Canon EOS 1000D

Your suppose to be sad after your daughters wedding. Oh, not because I just lost a daughter. I spent the whole wedding ceremony and reception clicking away with my digital Kodak 290 and when I transferred the photos from camera to laptop only a dozen or so were recognisable out of over 200.

The Canon eos 1000D was something I needed to buy. There’s no comparison between these two cameras as the Kodak had to be less than 10 ft to take a decent pic but the new Canon gets shots 50ft away with its auto-focus lens.

I also found the Canon light and easy to operate considering how long I’d had the Kodak. Once I got the Canon out of the box I had to rummage for the manual which I sat and read before I started snapping away like mad.

The Canon is sold along with a lens that is 18mm to 55mm letting you take great pictures before you upgrade to something a bit larger. The Canon has a great little battery that seems to last for ever as I’ve already taken over 400 shots with it and I haven’t needed to recharge it yet. The charging is quick except for the first time after you purchased the camera when the battery needs to be charged for over 2 hours.

I always found it fiddly when it came to re-charging the Kodak s 4 AA batteries but now its easier with Canons single battery. Its just a matter of slipping the hatch open on the top and dropping the battery in. If you use a big memory card in the camera like 16 gigabytes you could take over 4000 photos.

Photo Stitch and Picture Style Editor are also given away free with your Canon package and will help you when you transfer your photos to a computer.

Getting another book besides the Canon manual seems like a good idea. Pinning all your hopes on the manual that comes with your camera isn’t such a good idea but the “Canon eos 1000D for Dummies” is.

To say the Canon is easy to use and takes great pictures is an under statement. With the autofocus on there isn’t any chance of the picture coming out blurred. Posters are not the sort of thing I would have thought of doing with my Canon but if it can do that what else can it do.

I found over time that your laptop wasn’t always happy with what you plugged into it so it was great to see the Canon folder appear on my laptop screen immediately I plugged in the USB cable. Naturally there is a software program you need to install on your computer before you can transfer any photos from one to the other but the camera show up at once without any problems. All of a sudden there it was as if by magic.

When I was choosing a camera the Canon wasn’t my first choice but am I glad I changed my mind and now I urge anybody thinking of buying a camera to look long and hard at this model.

Want to find out more about The Canon eos 1000 D, then visit Michael O’Callaghan’s site on how to choose the best a Digital Camera for your needs.