The Canon 500D

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Canon EOS 500D

2010

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Zita Chao Loyo Universidad Anahuac 16/02/2010


Contenido Contenido...........................................................................................................................................2 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................3 My personal hobby is to take pictures, and as of late, the camera I’ve been using for it is the Canon EOS 500D. I would like to present it to you ass well as the accessories like the lens and the flash....3 The Canon EOS...................................................................................................................................3 Canon EOS 500D.................................................................................................................................4 Features..........................................................................................................................................6 Canon EF lens mount..........................................................................................................................7 EOS flash system................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction My personal hobby is to take pictures, and as of late, the camera I’ve been using for it is the Canon EOS 500D. I would like to present it to you ass well as the accessories like the lens and the flash.

The Canon EOS The Canon EOS (Electro-Optical System) autofocus 35 mm film and digital SLR camera system was introduced in 1987 with the Canon EOS 650 and is still in production as Canon's current dSLR system. The acronym EOS was chosen for Eos, the Titan Goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, and is often pronounced as a word (i.e., EE-oss), although some spell out the letters, reading it as an initialism. There is no officially correct pronunciation. It competes primarily with the Nikon F series and its successors, as well as autofocus SLR systems from Olympus Corporation, Pentax, Sony/Minolta, and Panasonic/Leica. In most countries, EOS cameras have the largest market share of SLR cameras. At the heart of the system is the EF lens mount, which replaced the previous FD lens mount.

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Canon EOS 500D Canon EOS 500D/EOS Rebel T1i

Type

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Digital single-lens reflex camera

Sensor

CMOS APS-C 22.3 x 14.9 mm (1.6x conversion factor)

Maximum resolution

15.1 effective megapixels, 4,752 x 3,168

Lens type

Canon EF lens mount, Canon EF-S lens mount

Shutter

focal-plane

Shutter speed range

1/4000 to 30 sec and Bulb, 1/200 s X-sync

Exposure metering

Full aperture TTL, 35-zone SPC

Exposure modes

Full Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports, Night Portrait, No Flash, Program AE, Shutter-priority, Aperturepriority, Manual, Auto Depth-of-field

Metering modes

Spot, Evaluative, Partial (approx. 9% at center of viewfinder), Center-weighted average

Focus areas

9 AF points

Focus modes

AI Focus, One-Shot, AI Servo, Live View

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Continuous shooting

3.4 frame/s for 170 JPEGs or 9 RAW files

Viewfinder

Eye-level pentamirror SLR, 95% coverage, 0.87x magnification

ASA/ISO range

ISO 100 to 3200 (expandable to 12800)

Flash

E-TTL II automatic built-in pop-up

Flash bracketing

Yes

Custom WB

Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten Light, White Fluorescent Light, Flash, Manual, user-set

WB bracketing

+/- 3 stops in 1-stop increments;

Rear LCD monitor

3 in color TFT LCD, 920,000 pixels

Storage

Secure Digital Card Secure Digital High Capacity

Battery

LP-E5 Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery (7.4 V, 1050 mAh)

Dimensions

129 x 98 x 62 mm

Weight

480 g (body only, no battery)

Optional battery packs

BG-E5 grip

Made In

Japan

The Canon EOS 500D is a 15.1 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on 25 March, 2009. It 9


was released in May 2009.[1][2] It is known as the EOS Kiss X3 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T1i in North America. It continues the Rebel line of mid-range DSLR cameras, and is currently placed by Canon as the next model up from the EOS 450D. It is the third digital singlelens reflex camera to feature a movie mode and the second to feature full 1080p video recording, albeit at the rate of 20 frames/sec. The camera shares a few features with the high-end Canon EOS 5D Mark II, including movie mode, Live preview, and DiG!C 4. Like the EOS Figure 3 450D and EOS 1000D, it uses SDHC media storage, and is the third EOS model to use that medium instead of CompactFlash. Like the EOS 5D Mark II, video clips are recorded as MOV (QuickTime) files with H.264/MPEG-4 compressed video and linear PCM audio.

Features •

15.1-megapixel CMOS sensor DIGIC 4 image processor

14-bit analog to digital signal conversion

3.0-inch (76 mm) LCD monitor

Live view mode and built-in flash

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Wide, selectable, nine-point AF with centre cross-type sensors

Four metering modes, using 35-zones: spot, partial, center-weighted average, and evaluative metering.[4]

Auto lighting optimizer

Highlight tone priority

EOS integrated cleaning system

sRGB and AdobeRGB colour spaces

ISO 100–12,800

Continuous drive up to 3.4 frame/s (170 images (JPEG), 9 images (RAW))

Canon EF/EF-S lenses

PAL/NTSC video output

SD and SDHC memory card file storage

RAW and large JPEG simultaneous recording

USB 2.0, HDMI interface

LP-E5 battery

Approximate weight 0.475 kg

Canon EF lens mount The bayonet-style EF lens mount is at the center of the EOS camera system. Breaking compatibility with the earlier FD mount, it was designed with no mechanical linkages between moving parts in the lens and in the camera. The aperture and focus are controlled via electrical contacts, with motors in the lens itself. This was

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similar in many ways to Nikon's 1983 F3AF (and to many of Nikon's more recent autofocus lenses), although other manufacturers including Contax (with its G series of interchangeable-lens 35 mm rangefinder cameras) and Olympus (with its Four Thirds System) have since embraced this type of direct drive system. It is a large lens mount compared to most of its competition, enabling the use of larger aperture lenses.

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The bayonet-style mount

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85mm F1.2 L lens

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14mm F2.8 L lens

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TS-E 24mm f/3.5L lens

50mm F1.4 lens

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100mm F2.8 macro lens

135mm F2 L lens

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70-200mm F2.8 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 IS 24-70 F2.8 L lens L lens DO lens

Canon EF 400mm lens

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16-35 F2.8 L lens

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Main article: Canon EOS flash system70-300mm F4.5-5.6 IS DO lens

The flash system in the EOS cameras has gone through a number of evolutions since its first implementation. The basic EOS flash system was actually developed not for the first EOS camera, but rather for the last high-end FDmount manual-focus camera, the T90, launched in 1986. This was the first Canon camera with through-the-lens (TTL) flash metering, although other brands had been metering that way for some time. It also introduced the ATTL (Advanced TTL) system for better flash exposure in program mode, using infrared preflashes to gauge subject distance.

This system was carried over into the early EOS cameras wholesale. A-TTL largely fell out of favor, and was replaced by E-TTL (Evaluative TTL). This used a pre-flash for advanced metering, and used the autofocus system to judge where the main subject was for more accurate exposure. E-TTL II, which was an enhancement in the camera's firmware only, replaced E-TTL from 2004.

Canon Speedlite-brand flashes have evolved alongside the cameras. They are capable of wired and wireless multi-flash setups, the latter using visible or infrared pulses to synchronise.

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Speedlite 550EX

Speedlite 430EX

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