| If your someone who is interested in technical | | | | you go in search of extra lenses, you'll quickly learn, |
| numbers, than you had to see, that the Canon SLR | | | | that more megapixels means more money on |
| Rebel T1i has a 15.1MP image sensor, and the more | | | | expensive lenses. The lenses designed to be used |
| expensive Nikon D90 has a 12.3mega-pixel image | | | | with high megapixel digital camera are designed to |
| sensor. If those specifications were all you needed, | | | | resolve better, and virtually always cost you. |
| then it would look reasonably obvious that the Rebel | | | | For some reason, the lens that's normally supplied |
| T1i SLR, is the optimum digital camera for the money | | | | (EF-S IS 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6) by Canon with the T1i, is |
| today. | | | | not one of those that is well suited at managing higher |
| By only considering the numbers, you don't understand | | | | megapixel counts. Canon does indeed make lens that |
| the big picture here. Bigger is frequently not better. | | | | would make a better match for the Canon Rebel T1i, |
| Megapixels is often a big part of selling digital cameras, | | | | including the EF-S 18-200mm Canon . |
| and Fuji, Nikon and the rest of the producers know | | | | If that alone wasn't bad enough, you should be made |
| that all too well. As for the Rebel SLR T1i, the | | | | aware, that high pixels can be a detriment to dynamic |
| merchandising department seems to have trumped | | | | range, ISO, and diffraction as well. Upon further |
| the design team. | | | | scrutiny, it would seem that our initial impression of the |
| The APS-C image sensor employed in the T1i SLR, is | | | | Canon Rebel T1i being better bang for the buck was |
| a hair tinier than the DX image sensor used by the | | | | slightly misguided. |
| Nikon D90. Obviously there are a few approaches to | | | | An camera industry bench mark used to measure |
| squeeze extra pixels into a smaller sensor. Using tinier | | | | RAW sensor information is the DxOMark test. Testing |
| pixels, and wadding them closer together works. A | | | | between the Canon 50D SLR (same image sensor |
| more precise indicator of photo quality than | | | | used by the Rebel SLR T1i) versus the Nikon D90, |
| megapixels, is pixel density. In this case, the D90 SLR | | | | show the D90 Digital SLR to be much more capable. I |
| comes in with much better numbers (lower is better | | | | have no doubt, that T1i DxOMark testing wll be almost |
| here) of 3.3 vs 4.5 for the Canon Rebel T1i. | | | | identical to that of the current EOS 50D test data |
| There are different concerns to think about, when | | | | currently available. |
| dealing with a digital SLR that has high pixel density. As | | | | |