When was the canon rebel xs made

The JPG file format is significantly more storage space efficient and has various levels of quality that also adjust space requirements. My recommendation is to shoot RAW and buy lots of memory - it is cheap and is useful for temporary archiving and backup use.

Included in the table above are the viewfinder specs. The Rebel XS viewfinder seems especially small with its. Of course, size is relative and most point and shoot users will think this viewfinder is huge.

The current ISO setting is now visible in the viewfinder - a very nice feature. Other characteristics of the current Digital Rebel line include small, light, moderately-well built chassis and a logical, attractive design.

Use the mouseover links below to compare the top of several Canon EOS models. Gone is the silver ring around the mode button. And that is a good change in my opinion. The new design is both more visually attractive and easy to use. The XS grip is a definite shortcoming. The rear thumb position is smooth plastic. The front of the grip is slightly rubberized, but the finish is not very tacky. Missing on the XS is the proximity detection feature that turns off the LCD when something typically a face is close to the viewfinder.

With a white on black display, I don't find this missing feature to be an issue. Carried over from the XTi is the XS's 2. In the menu, the XS gains a flash control option for separately controlling both the built-in, pop-up flash and an external Speedlite flash. Live View zoomed to 10x is especially useful for precise manual focusing. Quick mode and Live mode no face detection option autofocusing are available.

Live view AF uses contrast detection slow while the former utilizes phase detection fast but requires the mirror to drop which temporarily suspends Live View.

Highlight Tone Priority, Kelvin white balance and spot metering are missing. The XS is definitely not a good choice for serious sports and action photography. So though the XS has a powerful processor, Canon chose not to use it for capturing smoother images, as the XSi does. Canon's literature says that the Auto Lighting Optimizer mode uses Canon's Face Detection technology to make sure faces are exposed properly in backlit situations.

Unlike Nikon's D-Lighting, however, it cannot be applied after capture. It's designed to enhance photographs for direct printing, camera to printer, via PictBridge. We didn't notice much of an effect in our tests, though. The Canon XS's highest ISO setting remains low compared with other recent offerings from other companies, ranging from to 1, Image quality across the range is good, except in certain situations, with ISO shots producing good 13xinch prints, and ISO 1, shots looking good at 8x10 inches.

The grip is great, making the camera feel a little less tiny, and the curves make handling the camera comfortable all around. Save for the new ISO button's position, controls are very good, improved when the larger LCD eliminated the left-side buttons.

Checking exposure and focus is a lot easier with the larger LCD, and thanks to Live View, you can quickly check focus before you capture. The new image-stabilized lens included with the Canon XS is excellent, quite an improvement over the last model. Its zoom ring works more smoothly, and the knurled grip is easier to hold.

Image stabilization works very well, serving up more high quality shots in very low light. The lens isn't USM, which means it doesn't have an ultrasonic motor for fast, nearly silent focusing, but the motor isn't disagreeably loud at all, and it's fast enough.

Frame rate. When shooting in RAW mode, this frame rate is cut in half, down to 1. The shutter sound is different from the XTi, but still includes a lot of whirring and stomping, instead of a nice, simple click-click.

Some might prefer the winding sound, but to me it draws too much attention. The new lens release button makes it a little easier to change lenses, and while it's hard to get used to a Canon SLR with a small SD card door, it does fit the small body of the Rebel XS.

It has thrown me on occasion when my standard complement of CF cards was no help after I'd filled an SD card. Now I carry both. Shooting in Live View mode is pretty easy once you get used to it; though focusing by pressing the AE-Lock button is a little cumbersome when shooting from odd angles. I suppose they separated the buttons to avoid the confusion of the mirror going up when you half-press the shutter button. Surely that would make many users think they'd taken a picture, as it did with the early Olympus live-view SLRs.

And in "Live" AF mode, it's a lot slower than some digicams, especially in low light with camera movement, so I'm sure that's why they left AF activation on the AE-Lock button. As well as it works, I recommend against using the Live View mode as a default shooting method.

Use it for fine focusing while shooting from a tripod, where you can afford the time to confirm or specify which focus point or area is in use, or when shooting from odd angles, but you get better camera stability when shooting with the camera held to your face than you do holding it out in front of you.

Battery life also drops from to shots when shooting in Live View, so invest in a spare battery if Live View is your thing. There's so much about the XS that's similar to the XTi that there's not much new to say about the camera shooting experience. It works well, is fun to shoot with, and captures pretty good images. Speed, unfortunately is not up to the XTi's standard, and if that's important to you, consider the Rebel XSi.

Canon has made many changes in how they compensate for noise, especially chroma noise, and in specific situations, there are demosaicing errors that create disturbing patterns that are difficult to remove. Yes, there's noise, but it's hardly noticeable, which is impressive for ISO 1, Remember that these images above are shown at percent, and captured at ISO 1, There's a little more sharpening applied to the XS images, which makes images pop better for consumers.

You can see that there is slightly less detail, but there is much less chroma noise, especially in the shadows. The demosaicing errors mentioned above are really the only major aspect we find problematic about the Canon Rebel XS. And the fact is that many people won't see it at all. Ironically, as you raise the ISO on the Rebel XS, some of these artifacts become less noticeable, especially the diagonal bands.

When we printed the images to see when the artifacts would appear, we found that the color errors appeared early on, affecting images at ISO when printed at 8x We knew what we were looking for, however; most would not notice the effect at all.

The diagonal banding didn't appear until 11x14, and didn't really stand out until printed at 13x19 inches. So take it with a few sprinkles of salt, and the XS is still a good, usable camera. You have to decide whether the above artifacts would bother you if you didn't see them at 8x10, especially when you consider how little you paid for your rather capable SLR.

You can use the Rebel XS to get great images almost all of the time, and you'll get impressive detail at all ISO settings, so we think the tradeoff of artifacts against high ISO performance is worth it for the average consumer photographer on a budget. The Canon Rebel XS is a good quality digital SLR camera, well-suited to the consumer shooter looking for a little more from a digital camera. Canon sought to compete with Nikon and Pentax at the extreme low price level, and they had to cut a few corners.

The body isn't quite as nice as the Canon Rebel XSi, and the image quality suffers from a few more hitches, but you'll only notice if you zoom to percent onscreen and search around like we do.

The Canon Rebel XS's image stabilized lens and impressive high ISO performance should mitigate most of the other problems, and the Rebel XS's fast autofocus should make this year's holiday pictures better than ever.

Canon will likely sell a lot of Rebel XS kits. It's a pretty good SLR at a pretty astonishingly low price, and that's what it was designed to be. Most consumers will be very happy with the Canon Rebel XS, thanks to the high quality, image-stabilized lens, the well-rounded feature-set, and impressive print quality. But there are a few technical foibles that enthusiasts will do well to take note of.

Still, that won't affect most shooters, as it's the rare person who enlarges to 11xinches, let alone 13x19 or 16x The good news is that Canon made minor but important improvements to the grip and controls, and kept most of what is great about the XS's predecessor. Adding Live View and image stabilization addressed a few elements that other companies, namely Olympus and Pentax, have had in their favor at the low-price end of the market.

If anyone knows how to address the image stabilization problem, it's Canon, with years of experience and a proven track record. There is surprisingly little corner softness and chromatic aberration, and the lens's build is better than past models. It delivers such a good focal length range with so little weight that I recommend most people buy the kit to get this fine little lens for those days they just want a light, high-quality optic along.

But with overall performance and image quality marks that are top notch, it's hard to fault the manufacturer too much for sticking with a formula that works. And in almost every regard, the Rebel XS does just that.

Traditionally, Canon has demoted its previous-generation Rebel into the entry-level spot with each new announcement. To this end, the XS uses the previous-generation Basic Zone presets are as follows:.

Note that in the Basic Zone, many exposure control and general shooting options including AF drive mode, metering options, and flash modes are locked out or limited. The camera does incorporate an orientation sensor that automatically rotates portrait-orientation images during playback. Not surprising then that on balance it seems to perform better here than on the XSi. For a detailed listing of specifications and features, please refer to the specifications table found at the bottom of the review.

These two share that much in common in terms of form. In reviewing the XSi, I expressed some displeasure with the cheap feeling that the use of an oddly finished, all-plastic body exudes. Styling is a direct carry-over from the XSi, with swooping lines and few hard edges. I still maintain that some will find the level of fit and finish for what is unquestionably one of the premier entry-level DSLRs on the market unappealing.

Well considered dedicated controls provide quick access to just about everything that the average shooter might need to adjust in setting up a shot, making the XS easy to shoot with once you figure out its layout. The most advanced arrangement of controls lies in the multi-page custom functions menu. Otherwise, the XS eschews multi-page menus in favor of brief lists of options under each of its tabbed main menu headings. Color reproduction is reasonably accurate, as is contrast.

When in shooting mode, the rear LCD also serves as status indicator, providing detailed information about exposure parameters, battery life, and number of available shots remaining.

The biggest operational advantage the XS offers over competitors is My Menu, which, unlike some other features, it inherits from higher-end models. With My Menu you can build a go-to-list of the most frequently accessed menu settings--in my case, for instance, Format and Live View settings.

However, like the XSi, the menus can be--irritatingly--a little inconsistent and sometimes dumb. For instance, you can change ISO sensitivity with either the dial or the navigation buttons, but can only navigate metering choices via the navigation buttons. Also, in some cases, when you have two columns to navigate, as with Picture Style settings, it doesn't let you navigate to the right or left; you must navigate all the way down the first column to get to the settings in the second.

The AF indicators are tiny red dots that briefly flash when focus locks. They're neither persistent nor large enough to be easy to spot, so I frequently found myself having to prefocus several times to make sure that the spot was on the correct subject and that it was focused. As you can imagine, it slows shooting a bit. Is it more annoying than the faint focus lines Sony uses? I think so. Also, like the XSi, the XS includes Canon's Auto Lighting Optimizer, which automatically adjusts contrast and brightness in case the image you captured isn't quite perfect.

Introduced last year in the 40D, the Auto Lighting Optimizer is now available in all exposure modes and employs face detection to prevent the underexposure of backlit faces I complained about in the XTi and it works. Remaining specifications are in line with the XSi. Canon also offers the BG-E5 battery grip.