| So, you've had your Canon Digital Rebel XT for a | | | | frame sensor cameras will result in better image |
| while, and you're starting to get a little camera envy. | | | | quality, wide angle shots, and photographs more suited |
| Nikon, Canon and the competition keep releasing new | | | | for cropping during the editing process. |
| models with more bells and whistles. Which of course | | | | Your current inventory of lenses is a consideration as |
| leads you to thinking about how much better your | | | | well. Depending on the lenses you have, they may |
| photos could be with the latest technology. Can't say I | | | | work better with one camera over another. It's pretty |
| blame you, it happens to the best of us. Just for the | | | | typical for Rebel XT owners to have several EF-S |
| heck of it, lets take a look at a couple of upgrade | | | | lenses. These lenses simply won't work with the 5D, |
| possibilities you may want to consider for your Rebel | | | | but will work with the EOS 40D. If your keeping the |
| XT. One is the Canon EOS 5D, which is considerably | | | | Digital Rebel, and don't mind buying more lenses, then |
| more expensive, but includes a multitude of features | | | | the 5D is still a worthy contender. I've heard from |
| the XT doesn't have. Keeping it in the Canon family, | | | | several photographers that like to have vastly different |
| lets also take a look at the Canon EOS 40D. The 40D | | | | cameras for different situations. If you share this |
| is pretty much in the middle price wise between the | | | | diverse thinking, then the Canon 5D is likely the better |
| XT and the 5D, but with some pros and cons worth | | | | choice. |
| considering. | | | | Of course, its hard to have a camera upgrade |
| For the sake of argument, lets assume your a typical | | | | discussion without the subject of price coming up. The |
| Digital Rebel owner, and shoot a wide variety of | | | | Canon 5D is a little less than twice the price of the |
| subjects. Family portraits, sports, landscape, nature, | | | | EOS 40D. You have to wonder if maybe it's better to |
| family outings, and vacation pics. | | | | go for the cheaper 40D, and dump the rest of your |
| One place to start thinking in your upgrade process, is | | | | budget into some nice glass (photo geek speak for |
| to ask yourself why you want to upgrade. Is it speed? | | | | lenses). Many would argue that spending your money |
| In which case, the Canon 40D has a faster | | | | on great lenses and a good camera body is the best |
| frame-per-second rating. 6 FPS for the 40D, while the | | | | way to get value for your money. Pretty subjective of |
| 5D shoots at 3 FPS. How about image quality? The | | | | course, and really depends on how you like to take |
| 5D comes with a pretty sweet full frame sensor. Full | | | | pictures. |