March, 2005

This is a field report on the newCanon EOS Digital Rebel XT(as it's known in the US and Canada), or the350Das it's known in Europe.(We won't mention that the same camera is called theKiss n Digitalin Japan).For simplicity sake I'll just call it the350XTfrom now on.

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Not Your Father's ReviewWith apologies toGeneral Motors– the isn't going to be your father's camera review. Frankly, over the past year or so I've become bored with both reading and writing traditional camera reviews. The endless listings of features and specs hurts my brain. And, these tell me almost nothing about how suitable a given camera might be as a device for taking photographs. The technical tests and comparisons are also a black hole into which it's all too easy to become captured, and ultimately devoured. Small image quality differences between cameras, or minor foibles, become the peg on which some people hang their prejudi...