new rebel gossip looks like it might come to light, like anybody that follows this stuff didn't see it coming...

8mp sensor digic 2 chip, some current disabled features now enabled

rebel xt in the US ...eos 350 elsewhere

best part is the price $999

where does that leave the 20d, well just about the same spot the rebel left the 10d when it arrived on the scene...

here is a upc entry: http://www.upcdatabase.com/item.pl?upc=013803049626

well here it is

http://www.pma-show.com/review/canon/001_EOS_digital_rebel_xt.html

Nice to see an all-black body! I was never a big fan of the silver.

silver is still there

http://www.imaging-resource.com/EVENTS/PMAS05/1108638359.html

I played with one at PMA.......It's TINY! Feels more solid than the last rebel, but is extremely small.

Looks like a nice camera, now where to find the money... hmmm...

Here is some good info on that cam:

www.dpreview.com/news/0502/05021704canon_eos350d.asp

Plus a detailed review:

www.dpreview.com/articles/canoneos350d/


If you haven't seen it, www.dpreview.com is a great source for anything about digital cams... they have incredibly detailed (sometimes 20+ page) reviews with everything you can ask for.

So bad... I just purshased the original Rebel three weeks ago.

But for at least 250$ CDN less!

Where is the best place to find a regular digital rebel? I checked resellerratings and found three nice places for cheap but I was wondering if there are any other places that I may have missed. Thanks everyone!

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B&H, EVS & Zotz can get the Rebel for you. Hope this helps,

The new rebel is WAY too small, I handled it the other day and I could barely hold it with three fingers on my right hand. My fingers on my right hand had no where to go except into the lens. Too small.
The grip isn't rubberized either, it has a weird sand paper like finish on it. Not good.
Great features, but I don't understand why they keep making these cameras smaller.
The 20D is even smaller than I like (My old 10D was the perfect size).

Jeff, are you saying the new Rebel is smaller than the 20d?

Yes... the 10d is a good fit in my hands.....

the original rebel was smaller than the 20D, and the new one is 25% smaller than the old one!!! Non sense...

It is tiny. It might be alright with a grip, but let's just hope the grip for the XT doesn't have all the problems the 20D grip has.
I am on my second 20D grip and I just sent that back to Canon on Tuesday for ANOTHER fix.

WHat's been breaking with the grips?

Nothing is breaking on them, just bad design. If you have a flash mounted on the camera and you turn the camera into portrait position while holding onto the grip, sometimes the camera will momentarily lose power! There is too much flex in the grip and it causes the connection pin to lose contact with the camera.
Canon supposably fixed the problem and all grips with serial numbers greater than #05xxxx aren't supposed to have the problem.
So I exchanged my original grip for one with a serial number starting with #06xxxx and it still has the same problems. Canon in Canada hasn't officially claimed anything. I talked to Camera Canada, where I bought it and they have returned ALOT of these grips because of the same complaints.
I called Canon and they didn't seem very surprised and said to send it in and they will perform a 'small adjustment' and send it back to me. Hopefully it works better.
I miss my 10D grip, that thing was SOLID, as you know.

I've taken to juggling my 10d. I can get it 6-8 feet over my head and catch it by the grip on the way down. Sometimes, I just wait to catch it on the first bounce.


:)

I had the pleasue at being at Canon event, where some Japanese Canon big bosses also were present. We were all given a XT to play with and afterwards we had a Q&A with the japanese management.

We were all complaining about the size of the camera, but the complaints sort of silenced, when one of the really big bosses annonced that *he* had missed several good shots because he accidently has pressed exposure lock due to the small size of the camera. He was in fact quite angry. And his statement apparently had a major effect on the present Canon people. Far more than our remarks

I think that it is beginning to dawn on Canon that smaller is not better.

I just bought mine yesterday, got the battery grip with it as well, but, yeah, it is a lot smaller than most cameras. I guess I'll get used to it the more I use it, I thought my XL-1 was "too big" when I first bought it but I soon got used to it. Several camera stores that I went to had the black version sold out, luckily the store I went to had them in stock and for about $100 less.

The standard wide lens that comes with it has a very cheap feel to it so I bought the body only and got a different lens, money is tight so I had to settle for a Sigma 18-50mm f:2.8 which is at least 1 stop faster than the lens Canon had on the camera, except over here in Japan it's called the Kiss Digital N. The acutally have a cute campaign for the camera, on the subway trains they have a photo of 4 kids with makeup like the band KISS and with a slogan something like "We need a KISS".

This camera is good enough for me now, I am hoping in a year or so to upgrade to a much better camera. I was using a Olympus E-10, this new camera is very fast compared to that camera, would have bought a 20D if I had the money. I paid about $1,400 US for the set up, body, battery grip, extra battery, Sigma 18-50mm f:2.8.

The Sigma 18-50 F2.8 gets some pretty decent reviews
http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=232&sort=7&cat=37&page=2

I think you will be much happier with it as compared to the Kit lens.

jeff,
thanks for the link to the lens reviews, yeah, the kit lens is a joke, I felt like I would break it the first time using it. The Sigma is very solid.

I bought a XT after my 20d was stolen. My conclusion is that functionally it is nearly identical, although not quite as quick. It is much smaller, and the viewfinder is not as big, but for 400$ less I can live with that. It's still one of the best cameras I've used.

I've had it about a month and have taken around 1500 exposures, and have no major complaints, and the price was right. (Too bad the 20d was stolen) :(

Yeah, it's a nice camera, the only thing so far that has bothered me is that the light, aperature, and timer/one shot/multiple shot buttons are so close together. I was going to shoot a friend's dance routine and I went to adjust the aperature, I hit the timer button by mistake and it seemed to freeze up, it actually was on timer mode so it seemed like nothing was happening, it was a good 5 min. before I figured out what was wrong, then it was okay. Luckily it wasn't a real important shoot, just went to see my friend's dance and I decided to bring my camera.