The modern digital new Canon Rebel is a thin, comfortable camera. It includes a 10.1 mega pixels 3-2 aspect ratio extreme sensitivity CMOS CCDsensor and a 2.5 inches LCD display. Canon has kept compatibility with its other lenses so if you already purchased a few you are in great shape. You can use any of Canon lenses in the EF lineup, ultra-wide angle to super telephoto lenses. You can get additional photo shooting capacity with the battery grip providing carrying up to couple extra batteries. The digital files generated by the camera are the standard JPEG and RAW. With 10MP files can be quite big so a high capacity memory card is recommended. The camera uses the standard Compact Flash memory card format. The camera supports USB 2.0 for extremely fast delivery of photos to your PC. The Rebel XTi is an SLR camera with shutter speeds all the way from 1/4000 to 30 seconds. It weights 18 ounces and is 4.98 inches wide, 3.71 inches high and 2.56 inches deep.

I took the Canon Rebel XTi for a test drive. The camera grip has been improved a bit relative to older models. I like the picture style option that makes possible choosing between landscape and portrait film. As with different Canon cameras it focuses very fast and allows taking picture with almost no digital delay.

I tested the camera with a zoom lens also with image stabilizer. I went to the ocean to take some sunset pictures. The Canon performed amazingly it focused instantaneously and took sharp pictures. A few scenes were difficult on the Canon to focus on specially when I tried to take zoom photos of birds with the skies as the background. This is however expected as it is hard for any auto focus to handle those scenes. The Canon however makes manual focusing easy so I switched to manual to overcome it.