Canon EOS 1000D is a 10.1-megapixel
digital single-lens reflex camera
A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor.
The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between ...
announced by
Canon on 10 June 2008 and started shipping in mid August 2008. It is known as the EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in the United States and Canada. The 1000D is an entry-level DSLR that has been described as being a step below the
450D.
The camera shares a few features with the 450D. It offers
Live View shooting,
DIGIC III Image Processor, and
SDHC media storage. However, it has seven focus points (opposed to nine) and does not have spot light metering. The 1000D is also the second Canon EOS model (after the 450D) to exclusively use
SD card and SDHC memory storage instead of
CompactFlash.
Features
* 10.1 effective
megapixel APS-C
Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C ("Classic") format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 31.15 mm field d ...
CMOS sensor.
* Sensor Size : APS-C 22 mm ×14 mm
* Sensor Crop Factor: 1.6×
*
DIGIC III Image Processor.
* TFT color
LCD
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monitor with 230,000-dot resolution.
* Wide-area 7-point AF with center cross-type sensors.
*
EOS Self Cleaning Sensor Unit.
* Continuous Drive up to 3
frames per second for as many
JPEG
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files or up to 1.5 frames per second for 5
RAW
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files or 4 RAW+JPEG files.
*
ISO sensitivity
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100–1600.
* Canon
EF/
EF-S
The Canon EF-S lens mount is a derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. It was released in 2003. Cameras with the EF-S mount are backward compatible with th ...
lenses.
*
NTSC/
PAL video output.
* File formats include:
JPEG
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,
RAW
Raw is an adjective usually describing:
* Raw materials, basic materials from which products are manufactured or made
* Raw food, uncooked food
Raw or RAW may also refer to:
Computing and electronics
* .RAW, a proprietary mass spectrometry dat ...
(12-bit Canon original).
* Custom Functions (C.Fn) Such as Exposure Level Increment by f-stop etc.
* Canon LP-E5
battery
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pack, battery life (shots per charge) approx. 190–600 without
flash or 180–500 with 50% flash use.
* Approx. weight .
Reception
The 1000D has garnered positive reviews from independent photography review websites.
Video recording and conferencing
Canon Live View with resolution 768x512 px can be recorded directly to a computer (not internal memory) with software:
* EOS-movrec (open source)
* Canon EOS Utility 2
Video conferencing can be done with the same resolution with EOS Webcam Utility 1.1 (not listed in the officially supported cameras, but it works)
References
External links
Canon EOS 1000D Product Page
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1000D
Live-preview digital cameras
Cameras introduced in 2008