{"id":66,"date":"2009-10-01T21:54:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T01:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-03-13T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:38:46","slug":"canon-eos-rebel-xs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/2009\/10\/canon-eos-rebel-xs\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon EOS Rebel XS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the cameras I had in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FujiFilm Finepix 1400 Zoom<\/strong> bought new for $500 in 2000. I also got myself  32MB SmartMedia card for $100. What a deal! It had a whooping 1.3 megapixels. Although it had shining reviews from multiple sites, I was never really satisfied with the quality, all the pictures were a bit too red. Went on a trip to California and brought back crappy pictures. I told myself I would NEVER go on a trip with such a crappy camera again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canon PowerShot A60<\/strong> bought used on eBay in early 2006 for around $70. The quality was MUCH better than my previous camera. It had a manual mode that was really helpful.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canon SD700 IS<\/strong> bought new for $370 at the end of 2006. I wanted a small camera that I could carry in my pockets all the time. It served me well for years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I loved both of my Canon cameras, but I found myself too limited in some situations. Particularly in low-light situations. At ISO 800, there was a lot of noise with my SD700.<\/p>\n<p>I always loved photography, so after looking around for months, I finally found a great deal and bought myself a Canon EOS Rebel XS. It&#8217;s an entry-level SLR, but the level of control you have is simply in another league. I understand pretty much all the theory, but I need more practice.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I only have the 18-55 IS lense that came with the body. But I might buy a 50mm f\/1.8 prime lense sometime in the near future, it&#8217;s helpful in these low-light scenes such as weddings and all.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few pictures in the \u00ab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/kpicasa-gallery-demo\/?album=Experimentations\">Experimentations<\/a> \u00bb album in the kPicasa Gallery demo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the cameras I had in the past: FujiFilm Finepix 1400 Zoom bought new for $500 in 2000. I also got myself 32MB SmartMedia card for $100. What a deal! It had a whooping 1.3 megapixels. Although it had shining reviews from multiple sites, I was never really satisfied with the quality, all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}