The modern digital new Canon Rebel is a not heavy, comfortable camera. It has a 10.1 megapixels 3-2 aspect ratio high sensitivity CMOS CCDsensor and a 2.5 inches LCD display. Canon has kept compatibility with its old lenses so if you already have a few you are in good shape. You can use any of Canon lenses in the EF lineup, ultra-wide angle all the way to super telephoto lenses. You can get extra photo shooting capacity with the battery grip allowing carrying up to 2 extra batteries. The digital files generated by the camera are the standard JPEG and RAW. With 10MP files can be quite high so a large capacity memory card is recommended. The camera uses the standard Compact Flash memory card format. The camera supports USB 2.0 for fast delivery of photos to your PC. The Rebel XTi is an SLR camera with shutter speeds ranging 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 in comparison with older models. I like the picture style option allowing choosing between landscape and portrait film. As with different Canon cameras it focuses extremely fast and allows taking picture with almost hardly any digital delay.

I tested the camera with a zoom lens and with image stabilizer. I went to the ocean to take some sunset pictures. The Canon performed great it focused very fast and took crisp pictures. A few scenes were difficult on the Canon to focus on specially when I tried to take zoom digital photos of birds with the skies as the background. This is however expected as it is hard for any automatic focus to handle such scenes. The Canon on the other hand makes non automatic focusing easy so I switched to manual to overcome it.