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Canon 400D details

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1. Donal Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 12:22 pm

   Hopefully this will mean that the 350d will come down in price so I can get my hands on one of them!

2. Doug Says:
   August 30th, 2006 at 9:15 pm

   Heh. The 2 extra megapixels are just marketing fluff. But the XTi/400D has some other significant improvements.

   Some people would say that the anti-dust measures are the big improvement. I’ve never had a dust problem with my XT/350D, so it’s not that big to me.

   For me, the big deal is that Canon finally got rid of the “barely adequate if even that” 7-point autofocus system and replaced it with the 9-point AF from the 30D, including the dual-precision center sensor. Finally, a decent AF system. With any luck we won’t see the huge number of complaints about poor AF performance on the XTi/400D that we saw on the earlier Digital Rebels. The 9 AF points also are a lot better positioned than the 7 points were on the earlier models, and AI Servo tracking should be somewhat better.

   Some other goodies are the RGB histograms, so that you’ll know if you’re blowing out the red channel when taking a picture of a rose, twice as big a buffer for bursts of continuous shooting (10 Raws, almost 30 JPEGs), and Picture Styles for us JPEG shooters. You can program the Set button to take you to Flash Exposure Correction, there are some improvements in file numbering. If you happen to use Direct Print that feature has a whole bunch of new stuff.

   There are some changes to the controls that people complained about in the XT/350D. You don’t have to press Set to lock in a change, half-pressing the shutter will do it (like it did on the DReb/300D). At least one report says that you can’t accidentally change to timer or continuous shooting mode by bumping the drive mode button, that you also have to scroll to the new setting and either press Set or half-press the shutter.

   And of course, there’s the LCD that’s bigger, much brighter (Canon says 40% brighter than even the 30D), and visible from almost every angle. And those of us who need reading glasses will probably appreciate the much larger readouts of shooting information.

   I don’t know if it’s really an “upgrade” camera, though. At least not from the XT/350D. But then, that’s not the target market. The XTi/400D is intended to be an upgrade from point-and-shoots, and it seems well designed for that.

3. .. Says:
   November 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 am

   [...] Finally, the Canon Rebel XTi EOS 400D is reviewed. I excitedly mentioned this camera when it came out and my brother Donal bought one of these and I’ve played with it briefly. It’s impressively light, the screen is great, and the mirror flip-up is quieter than my Canon 20D. I can definitely recommend buying one if you’re looking for a DSLR! [...]

4. Subho Says:
   November 30th, 2006 at 12:28 am

   Hi
   I bought one and very disappointed. Most of my photo’s are coming dark. Basically the changed the metering and the pictures are underexposed. It also lost its sharpness.

   I am looking someone to sell it.

5. Donncha Says:
   November 30th, 2006 at 9:20 am

   Subho - there’s nothing wrong with the metering on the 400D, it has to be either the specific camera you have or some setting on the camera is wrong because I’ve used it and it works as well as any other Canon camera!

6. paradicephotography.com Says:
   March 8th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

   This camera DOES have a metering problem - there is ABSOLUTELY no doubt about that - you have to push it by about 2/3 - 1 stop to get the correct exposure and it’s a pain in the ass.

   If it is an intermittent problem, then a hell of a lot of people have it!

7. pocura Says:
   March 11th, 2007 at 11:53 am

   There is a major metering problem with the CANON 400D. The photographs are very dark and underexposed. My 400D camera is virtually unuseable. The problem is widespread and Canon are not interested in resolving it. In my experience Canon customer service is useless and so is the camera. NIKON have just gained a new customer.

8. Donncha O Caoimh Says:
   March 21st, 2007 at 8:56 am

   My brother has a 400D and it’s fine. Read this post which explains some of the reasons why you might think it has an exposure problem.

9. paradicephotography.com Says:
   April 26th, 2007 at 5:39 am

   Granted, I can understand - it’s a novice camera and I understand underexposing it SLIGHTLY to stop blowing out highlights, but 1 stop???????? Totally unnecessary and it’s a total pain!

10. Rod Puckey Says:
    August 19th, 2007 at 4:11 pm

    I have just got back from a 6 hour photo session with my new400D and can only say that I wish that I had found this site before I made the purchase.

    I haveonly been taking SLR photos for about 19 years, digital for about 7 years, DSLR for about 3 years and find that the exposure on the version of the Canon 400D that I have is so unpredictable that it will be going back on Monday. I cannot batch process the results of today to get something viewable to start with, I am having to edit each one and each one, even on continuous shooting is different.

    Is this typical or have I rogue camera?

11. Kearsley Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    I’ve just had the underexposure problem on a two month old 400D - some images are completely black - with the added problem that the flash had stopped working in automatic mode in any light conditions. The retailer agreed it was a manufacurers problem so exchanged the kit for a new one. No problems so far with the new kit but I’ll keep an eye on this thread.

12. Elizabeth Says:
    March 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    I’m considering purchasing the 400d, but now i’m extremely worried.
    Are there really huge underexposure problems? i havent heard this anywhere else
    im a novice, will the problem affect me, or is it only an issue for professionals?

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