Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Have a check on Canon EOS 550D

The Canon EOS 550D is a difficult product to categorize. Ostensibly designed to appeal to first-time DSLR buyers and enthusiasts, it offers a lot more technology, and at a higher price, than we might expect for a camera aimed squarely at this sector. Although it might seem logical for the 550D to replace the EOS 500D, the older camera is set to continue in Canon's lineup, which leaves the 550D pinched between its entry-level (represented by the still-current EOS 1000D and the 500D) and nominally enthusiast (the EOS 50D) peers. Confusingly however, apart from build quality (which is all but identical to the EOS 500D), the 550D has more in common with the prosumer EOS 7D, and - perhaps even more confusingly - it out-specifies the EOS 50D in many areas.

Central to the impressive specification of the EOS 550D is a high-spec movie mode which offers full HD capture at up to 30 fps, manual control over exposure, and the option to use an external stereo microphone. The new camera also inherits the EOS 7D's sophisticated metering system (which brings it a lot closer to similarly positioned Nikon SLRs).

Video Capture
Movie Mode:Yes
Movie Resolution:1920x1080, 1280x720, 640x480
Movie Frame Rate:30/25/24, 60/50, 60/50
Movie Audio:Yes
Movie File Format:.MOV (H.264)

Headline features
18 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor
DIGIC 4 processor with ISO 100-6400 (Expansion to 12800)
Continuous shooting at 3.7fps
Full HD movie recording with manual control and selectable frame rates
7.7cm (3.0") 3:2 Clear View LCD with 1,040k dots
iFCL metering System with 63-zone Dual-layer Metering Sensor
Quick Control screen to change shooting settings
Exposure compensation +/-5 stops (although viewfinder scale is still +/-2 stops)
Select maximum value for Auto ISO
External Microphone socket
Movie crop function
Eye-Fi connected functions compatibility

Helpful reading:
Mac HD Converter can convert regular videos such as AVI, ASF, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MOV, FLV, 3GP, 3G2, DIVX, M4V etc. to different formats such as MKV, 3GP, 3G2, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, FLV, SWF, DV, M4V and MOV and so on and players including iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Creative Zen, cell phones, Zune, BlackBerry, Gphone, iRiver, Palm, Walkman, Gphone etc.
DVD Maker for Mac is the perfect DVD Creator specializes in burning all kinds of videos to DVD Disk. It supports importing dv, wmv,3gp, mov, vob, mpg, asf, flv, avi, rm, rmvb, mp4, mkv, mka, m4v, ac3, tod, mod movie formats to output DVD for DVD 5 and DVD 9 Disk.

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