by blech​

Camera 500D – Amazing Camera, Canon Rules

My Requirements for a DSLR were as below:

1. High Resolution LCD Screen.
2. Great/Easy to use – User Interface.
3. HD Video – 720 (30FPS) – (1080 was optional for me).
4. Live View.
5. Amazing Image Quality.
6. Comprehensive Software Package.
7. Large Variety of Lens options.
8. Performance.
9. Obviously, Cost (
In the curent market, i narrowed down to 2 cameras – Canon EOS 500D/Camera 500D or Nikon D5000 (Since i trust both brands for amazing image quality).

Canon EOS 500D Scored over Nikon in below areas:

1. LCD Screen 3inch 920,000 dot compared to Nikon’s 2.7inch 230,000. For me high resolution screen is very important to enjoy the pics in the camera itself and obviously for better judgement of the focus. I bet, you will fall in love with Camera 500D, immidietly after seeing pics in its brilliant LCD screen.

2. I verified both Ti1 and D5000 user interface and i felt Camera 500D’s user interface/menus were well organised keeping in mind of the entry level DSLR users. Again i love this on Camera 500D.

3. I have seen many people complaining about Camera 500D’s 1080 (20 FPS) HD video. But Nikon doesn’t even have this feature. And Camera 500D has HD video 720 at 30 FPS which is a treat to eyes when you see it on HDTV. But Nikon provides 720 at just 24 FPS.

4. Both has Live View – Here Camera 500D has the advantage of better resolution screen and D5000 has Lower resolution vari angle screen. My preferenece was high resolution screen.

5. Image Quality, I am very very happy about the Super sharp images of Canon Camera 500D. My interest is mainly Macro and Landscape. And Camera 500D gives me Amazing Quality images (I don’t believe much in camera reviews) combined with Canon’s brilliant lenses.

6. Canon’s provides the best – with camera software package. Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility, Photostitch and many more are very simple to use and powerful tools and provides necessary inventory for more than basic image editing (Don’t compare this with specialized photo editing tools like Adobe Photoshop).

7. Again Canon has the most comprehensive Lens set to choose compared to Nikon (Again don’t bring in the theory of 3rd party lenses). I own the kit lens, Canon 100mm Macro, Canon 10mm super wide angle. And these leses combined with Camera 500D produce breathtaking images.

8. When it comes to performance, Camera 500D has got very great start up time, fast focus and good continious burst (9RAW/170 JPEGS at 3.4 FPS) which satisfies my needs. Nikon D5000 can shoot at 4FPS.

9. Cost wise, Camera 500D is cheaper than Nikon D90 and Canon 50D.

I have read many reviews comparing Camera 500D and D5000, saying Nikon has better Low light performance. It may be true, but Camera 500D produces brilliant pics till ISO3200 (Nikon may produce little better than this at same ISO range), but I use my camera very less for low light photograpy and Canon Camera 500D’s JPEG quality in normal light is a very sharp, captures more detail due to its 15MP resolution and it is better than that of Nikon D5000.

Handling wise i never felt Camera 500D as bad. It has a great grip and due to its less weight, it is very portable compared to Nikon D5000.

Final word:

For my use/requirements Canon Camera 500D fits perfectly and it produces Amazing Super sharp images with market leading feature set for an Entry level DSLR. Camera 500D has many improvements compared to that of 450D XSi keeping the similar (Better JPEG quality – compared to both 450D XSi and 50D) image quality and it is way ahead of Nikon D5000.

Hats off to Canon for giving a Brilliant Entry Level DSLR again.

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