Canon EOS 450D - Expert Reviews

Award: Recommended!

Review summary: Is Canon's consumer DSLR too little, too late?

Verdict: If the Canon EOS 450D is intended to be an entry-level camera then it is going to have some problems. It is too expensive, and requires too much user input to get the best from its outstanding image quality. Where it may win however is for the undoubtedly

Review summary: 12 megapixels for Canon's pro-am SLR

Verdict: As prices of digital SLRs fall with more people moving up from smaller and cheaper compact cameras, so the average resolution of such cameras increases.

Review summary: Canon's EOS-450D adds 14bit capture, Live View, a larger 3in LCD and faster continuous shooting.

Verdict: Be that as it may, the Canon EOS-450D is a fine performer. The only real problem is price. The 450D sits uncomfortably close to the 10Mp EOS 40D. With the maker's current cashback offer, the better-quipped semi-pro model can be had for roughly the same pr

Award: Highly Recommended!

Review summary: The Canon EOS 450D (also known as the Digital Rebel XSi) is the successor to the popular EOS 400D DSLR camera, and it offers a number of significant improvements that Canon hope will fight off the ever-increasing competition. The inevitable resolution inc

Verdict: The Canon EOS 450D is the fourth model in the best selling digital SLR series of all time, and as with many recent DSLR launches (with the exception of Nikon, who have raised their game considerably), it refines a winning blueprint, rather than reinventin