Reviews for Canon EOS 50D Digital SLR Camera3" Active Matrix TFT Color LCD - MPN: 2807B006 
By member:
bwaggo
- Jun 26, 2009
EOS D50Strengths: Extremely Fast with USDMA Card. Some photos are very sharp. Very fast camera with USDMA card. Resolution is great and color of photos is good. Weakness: Too Heavy ! Some photos are blurry when taken from a distance. CR2 files need additional software to handle. The battery goes down quickly. This camera is very heavy with the f2.8 zoom 70-200mm L lens. 47% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
Reply by member: sanjeedbd
May 27, 2010 First I think there's a typo. The camera is EOS 50D. I have both 50D and 450D/Xsi. Both are great advanced hobbyists' cameras. I am using both for same and different purposes.
By member:
growlsburg
- Apr 7, 2009
One of my favorite yet!Strengths: Very easy to use, even for a disabled person Weakness: Nothing really I have been a Canon fan from the late seventies. Am not a pro, but advanced user. The one draw back that I have now that I did not deal with is being disabled with MS. Meaning my eyesight is not all that great, I tend to shake at times, and have not found a camera that could help me enough under $2,000. Am not into the point and shoot cameras, and the others in the lower price range just did not seem to put out the photos I like to do. Am into dog shows, meaning moving dog shots for form and function of the breed without any blurring. Was so happy with just about every shot I have taken from day one of my getting this camera. The nature shots have the clear crisp look I put into my work, and when enlarged still look fantastic! For someone who was thinking I had to give up one of my favorite things, photography, due to my health declining just got a second chance of life it seems. 94% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By anonymous - Nov 18, 2008
Canon 50 D OperationStrengths: Faster then the 40D and much cleaner pictures with the DIGIC 4 processor. Even at 6400 ISO using the high filter setting. It was equal to 40D's 3200 ISO shots. Weakness: Wish the ISO scale from 100 to 6400 was graduated in 1/3 increments like the NIKON D3. Understand the New Mark II 5D is. Great camera. A must purchase if your an advanced shooter or a professional looking for a back up model. I shoot Women's Gymnastics and use the 6400 ISO 95% of the time with a 70-200 F28 IS lens. 77% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
productwiki.com - May 30, 2011
The Canon EOS-50D was announced as a sister model, rather than successor, to the EOS-40D. The 50D uses the same body as the 40D, but inside is an upgraded 15.1 megapixel CMOS sensor and the next generation processor (Digic 4, versus the 40Ds Digic III), Canon claims that the Digic 4 allows for up to 90 photos in a single burst mode. The 3" LCD screen has more pixels than the one found on the 40D,... Top
reviewgist.com - Dec 28, 2009
Best Midrange DSLR Digital Camera For Wildlife Photography
Image is Excellent according to 39 Digital Camera experts. -- "your photos will be top-notch, a win-win situation for all in our book."-reviews.digitaltrends.com -- "very impressive high ISO performance"-digitalcamerareview.com -- "the 50Ds default color rendering is quite faithful to the original, with accurate saturation levels."-imaging-resource.com Read more to find expert opinions on more... Top
bestcovery.com - May 11, 2009
Best dSLR Camera
Bestcovery experts have rated the Canon EOS 50D Black SLR Digital Camera as the #5 Best dSLR Camera. This product has also been ranked as the Best Semi-Professional dSLR. Bestcovery's experts recommend the best products and services for a particular need based on extensive research and evaluations. Click below to see Bestcovery's full review of this product. Top
TopTenREVIEWS.com - Dec 22, 2008
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EOS 50D receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS score of 0.67 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #95 Professional DSLR digital camera of all time. The overall rating represents an intelligent balance of features, value as a function of price to features, and a summary of reviews from a variety of sources. The TopTen REVIEWS' formula gives a picture of important consumer features, market value, and a... Top
letsgodigital.org - Nov 23, 2008
Canon EOS 50D review
Through a consistent and natural colour reproduction, a convincing dynamic range, excellent frame rate, fine applicable ISO range, excellent reproduction and user-friendly operation, Canon shows what the Canon EOS 50D stands for. It is an all-round DSLR camera for the enhanced hobby photographer who can deal with any branch of photography with this camera. It’s a convincing performance of an... Top
Imaging Resource - Nov 3, 2008
Canon EOS 50D Review
Many features stand out to make the Canon EOS 50D a great digital SLR camera. What will really catch and hold users is the impressive image quality they'll get from the Canon 50D across the standard ISO range of 100 to 3,200. The Canon 50D's new gapless microlenses allow greater light gathering ability, making for surprisingly detailed images, even at ISO 800 and 1,600. The Canon 50D's 14-bit... Top
Digitalcamerainfo.com - Oct 28, 2008
Canon EOS 50D Digital Camera Review
The 15-megapixel EOS 50D is Canon's newest mid-range SLR. Available for $1399 for the body alone, or packaged with a variety of kit lenses, it's the successor to 2007's 40D. After putting the 50D through a rigorous body of tests (undertaken using the 28-135mm lens, part of a $1600 kit set), we came out with an impression of it being a solid, dependable camera, but without any amazing new... Top
cnet.com - Oct 20, 2008
Canon EOS 50D (body only)
THE GOOD: Excellent performance and photo quality; solid, comfortable shooting design. THE BAD: Relatively basic feature set for its class. THE BOTTOM LINE: A very good midrange dSLR, the Canon EOS 50D is a compelling--but not necessarily a must-have--choice for Canon upgraders. Top
testseek.com - Oct 16, 2008
Canon EOS 50D
Testseek.com has collected 91 expert reviews for Canon EOS 50D and the average expert rating is 87 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Testseek.com to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions. Top
cameralabs.com - Oct 15, 2008
Camera Labs – Canon EOS 50D review
The Canon EOS 50D is a feature-packed semi-pro DSLR which takes the already capable 40D, increases the resolution to 15.1 Megapixels, quadruples the sensitivity to 12800 ISO, and packs in all the latest features – bar a movie mode. It becomes the first Canon DSLR with a VGA screen, HDMI port and in-camera correction of lens vignetting; there’s even the AF micro-adjust feature inherited from... Top
photographyblog.com - Oct 2, 2008
Canon EOS 50D Review
Announced just one year after the 40D, the new EOS 50D is Canon's latest semi-pro DSLR camera. With a price-tag just over £1200 / $1399 body only, the Canon 50D is firmly aimed at the prosumer, who will use it as their main camera, and the pro photographer looking for a reliable and relatively inexpensive backup body. The main headline-grabbing feature is the 15.1 megapixel CMOS sensor, which... Top
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Canon EOS 50D Prosumer DSLR
Strengths: Great detailed IQ, Fast burst operation, Good ISO performance
Weakness: High pixel density
I've bought the EOS 50D recently and quite happy with it. Had been using EOS 450D for last one year and 50D is a nice upgrade. As a hobbyist nature/wildlife photog, these 2 bodies are more than enough for my needs.
I was really impressed with its burst frame rate even with an ordinary CF card. The Digic IV is a commendable development. Have shot and compared images from these two great DSLRs at same settings in same low light condition. The 50D images contain more details undoubtedly however, the 450D gathers more light. Its gapless microlens technology is definitely an advancement although, not as much as it should have been. Therefore, Canon would have made this an unbeatable camera had the sensor contained 12 megapixels.
However, there's no denying of the fact that EOS 50D is excellent in good light. In such conditions it produces virtually noise free images at ISO 100 and 200. ISO 400 also produces excellent results. Noise starts from ISO 800 and beyond. But, is there a camera out there that doesn't produce noise at high ISOs? There isn't. So, too much fuss about 50D's high ISO noise is baseless. Wildlife shooters like me use ISO 400 most of the time, occasionally 800 and rarely 1600. I always shoot in RAW and high ISO noise is effectively tackled by various processing software including Canon's own DPP.
All in all EOS 50D is a decent prosumer camera and advanced hobbyists will be happy with it for quite some time to come.
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