Canon EOS 400D

+ Excellent camera with most of the capacity and features that I have read about that are found on many of the more expensive DSLRs.

- Haven't really found any to speak of as yet.

My first Digital SLR so I have no experience or any other camera to compare with. But I am very much enjoying the experience and I find both the camera and the results it produces to be well up to my hopes and expectations.

+ Excellent picture quality, self cleaning lens, light but sturdy. Software provided with camera is first rate and easy to use.

- After 1 month of use still haven't found any bad points yet.

Produces outstanding pictures even on automatic settings. Very easy to use and operate. Comprehensive manual is ideal for experts and informative for novices. Would certainly recommend the EOS400D to anybody. In fact a work colleague, after seeing the quality of my photos has now bought one!

+ Everything has been improved over the 350D, The dust protection Image quality Nice large LCD screen

- Kit lens can be soft at times

Its a fantastic camera and the dust protection is awesome

+ The CANON EOS-400 SLR,is best used on manual settings with the lowest ISO possible & upgrade the Lens to the best you can afford.The Canon EFS EF-S 17-85MM f/4-5.6 IS USM lens is a very good general purpose zoom lens,this is what I am using with very pleasing results.

- On Auto the ISO may no shift much from 400 ISO.

+ high resolution images; sensor cleaning; easy to use

- none really - except perhaps the need to buy large memory flash card for taking many images (and no card supplied with the camera).

Excellent digital SLR with many useful features.

+ overall a great camara, i am a professional photographer, doing wedding portrait and wildlife shoots. my main camara is the canon 5D but this has proven to be a quick and easy to use backup. ideal for shooting when you dont have loads of time to set up loads of equipment. even the flash is an asset.

- the lens is poor. but ok. in my opinion the first thing to do is get a better lens. ie 28mm to 105mm usm lens. using a good quality lens on this camara gives a professional look to the camara and the pictures.

+ Easy to use / Feels good in your hand / Results outstanding.

- Can't stop taken photos

If your looking for a digital slr camera look no further

+ Simple insructions and very good for beginners like me. This is my first SLR and I am getting on well with it.

- The solutions disc free memory card did not arrive. I feel a bit miffed over that

+ Beautiful pictures, easy to use, well-built, handles well, fully-featured. A joy to use.

- Can underexpose if you don't pay close attention to the scene and watch out for highlights. High ISO performance only average and quite poor if you underexpose high ISO shots. Kits lens is optically OK, but the build quality of the kit lens is *horrible*!

+ Excellent photographic reproduction. Easy to use, intuitive interface. Good selection of glasses. Robust construction, light weight.

- Compact Flash speed/type compatibility issue. Can be slow writing large images to CF. No USB mass storage operation.

My first DSLR - overall I'm very pleased with this product.

+ Superb camera, very easy to use and excellent picture quality. Very happy with my first foray into the DSLR market

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+ Great all-round camera, especially for a first SLR. highly recommended

- None i have found after 2 months of use.

+ Beautiful images with minimal effort. good compatability with older products, i.e. my old AF long lens. A dream to hold for small hands - feels and looks very professional.

- Takes a long time between images when using flash and I find the battery runs down too quickly particuarly when driving my long lens. Could be a little more intuative - perhaps take some advice from Nokia!

Thrilled - I've had great feedback from my friends even on my first outing with the camera.

+ Fantastic pictures, very easy to use.

- Manual modes don't allow any sensible tweaking i.e. can't turn on single point focus on portrait. No screen viewfinder mode means you have to buy a special eyepiece for tripod work (or lie on the ground and get wet). No foldy screen so even if you did have a viewfinder mode it would be no good.

Love it

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This camera is exellent value for money and easy to use.

+ Size, ease of use, picture quality

- Non

Its a Canon product, need to say no more

+ The Canon EOS-4000 SLR Very straightforward to use “user friendly”. Canon has made the manual much easier to understand!

- Not many bad points just I little bit small in your hand

+ Very easy to use, great quality images, nice design, not too big compared to previous model

- Havent found any yet

+ good size, great pictures, very nice alround

- the manual lacking of info

+ Very easy to use. If you have a basic knowledge of photography you can find most of the features without having to dive into the manual.

- It would be nice if it came with a memory card. So for the price of a camera, you can start taking pictures.

+ Easy to use for a novice - excellent mix of built in features and those you can customise to give a more professional shot

- Built in flash can be a little tempremental at times.

+ Fantastic pictures, very easy to use straight out of the box but complex enough to make photography interesting.

- Makes you spend more money on new lenses, filters, memory cards, cleaning products and the like!

+ the image qaulity is extremely good and the intigrated cleaning system is genius.

- none as yet

+ Excellent camera. Easy to use.

- Very difficult to obtain a mains AC adaptor for the camera. managed to get round this problem, using a card reader and then linking my PC through my Cannon Selphi printer.

+ High image quality, ease of use and small size. Quite an addictive camera!

- Kit lens is not great, suffers from quite a lot of distortion at the wide angle end of the zoom range.

+ Good Camera

- Unable to get cash back. On line form closes before it can be completed. Right address not available to send by Post.

+ Quite user friendly for a beginner in the DSLR range. Overall happy with the purchase.

- Kit lens quality shown not to be the best as I was advised prior to buying. If you've the money buy the body with a better quality lens.

+ Ease of use. Stlylish & manageable. Good quality photos with lots of choices / settings

- Flash a little too "stubborn" (says needed when not always the case). Battery life can be a little too short, but OK overall

+ excellent features, easy to use, light.

- No supplied CF card. Shop didn't even know ehich it took and thought they were obsolete. Had none in stock above 250kb. Lens supplied basic quality would suggest buy body only and better lens.

+ Excellent picture quality from CMOS sensor even at high ISO.

- No spot metering.

+ Easy to use if you're used to Canon 33mm.

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+ Easy to use menu, good feel to the camera.

- It's not possible to crop pictures on the lcd and then to save them. Quite a drawback if you don't have the time to fiddle around on the computer.

+ very easy to use on auto;light;battery life excellent;very useful software;excellent value for money.

- None

+ a good camera

- a single battery and a single memory card (not included with camera) will probably not suffice.

it is a great gift

+ It's easy to use and takes great pictures

- No bad points.

+ Size and weight - very portable All my old EOS lenses fit Processing images in RAW mode - not quick, but well worth it. Battery life very good

- Only niggle I have is the view-finder window seems very deep set. So you have to really look inside to get at the shot info.

If you want to go digital with a proper SLR that has lots of manual adjustments then this is an excellent choice. Perhaps a bit pricey but then as I already had the lenses I thought go for the 400 rather than the 350.

+ Easy to use, good battery life, quality feel & light weight. But most of all it flatters the ammature photographer

- No built in image stabilisation

+ big improvement on 350D

- none found yet

very easy to use, very good value for money

+ Excellent camera. Can still use my old EOS 1000 lenses

- Still to find anything wrong with it.

So much better to view and work with photographs immediately and not have to wait for them being developed.

+ The camera is fantastic and a great introduction to the world of digital SLR photography. I'd heartily recommend it to anyone. Great battery life.

- Nothing - totally happy.

+ excellent handling, good feel quality, excellent controls, number of shots per battery charge. liked the picture review with easy magnifying facility. Still getting to grips with the many facitilies available and gaining competence.

- The basic lens quality could be better. No imaging stabiliser option incorporated.

+ Ease of Use. Fully manual proff level with a good alternative lens kit. Fully featured kit for such an excellant price.

- No chip when purchasing camera, could get caught out if you don't check first.

+ The quality of the images is better than expected. Very pleased with the flexibility that this camera offers when shooting in a variety of situations

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An excellent camera that a professional and talented amateur can soon get used to and achieve superb results

+ Lots of features, excellent image quality, nice big lcd screen, easy to use - even for a first time SLR user.

- Feels a bit small in your hands, I will be buying the camera grip...

A great camera, I'm very pleased with it.

+ When you press the shutter it takes the picture, there is no delay like so many digital cameras.

- Manual is more complicated than an old fashioned SLR.

+ Menu system makes it easy to use even for those with no previous experience of digital SLRs

- Some of the menu buttons are a little cramped but price you pay for a bigger display. Software package is excellent

My first digital SLR and delighted with my purchase

+ Excellent straight out of the box. Better than my 20D except for continous shooting.

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+ It is so easy to use and I could use the lenses from my old 35mm eos on this. The pictures are great and you can zoon in on something in the distance crop it and it looks just as good as the original, this is from a techno phobe

- size......it is not somethng you can just put in your handbag, also I wish it did video's, but you cant have everything

+ very easy to use, on automatic setting it takes a lovely photo even with an amatuer at the controls! on manual you get some great photographic results.

- lens that comes with it is only average and limits more sophisticated photography for those who are more experienced photographers.

+ Excellent image quality. Small size. Anti dust system. Feels more solid than 350D.

- Pentamirror not as good as a pentaprism so view finder not as bright.

Excellent camera

+ none

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+ what more could you ask for in a camera other than camera shake demobilizer

- memory cards can be a pain, dont buy a high gb card

+ A great buy for the money

- A bit smaller than I'm used to

+ Easy to use, loads of manual functions, good picture quality, battery lasts ages, feels robust.

- It's got a 'creek' on the handhold grip!!

+ Easy to handle and light weight for an SLR ,Very good picture quality .

- Better if it had used AA type batteries- other than that a very good buy.

A vast improvement on the EOS300d which i have previously used - images much clearer when used with a sigma 18-50 over the standard canon 18-55.

+ Excellent camera with user friendly features.

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+ great size for holding. Superb image quality and size. Very fast start up time. I'm new to raw files, it's fantastic for changing the white blance after taking the photo eg - you can change a yellow tinged photo taken indoors to neutral by changing the WB to tungston.

- There is nothing i don't like about the EOS400D

+ Excellent image quality when used correctly, good frame capture rate, very easy to use.

- None really - but it's not a point and shoot, so you do need to know what you're doing to get the best result from it.

+ Battery life is excellent.

- The cheapest decent Canon lens is more than I paid for the camera body. Images have a slightly 'soft' look to them. Lack of live view. The camera defaults to aperture settings that give the theoretical best results without consideration of the exposure time. Consequently, unless you are in good sunlight, using a tripod or have a very large aperture lens you need to pay constant attention to the exposure time to ensure that the images are sharp. This is worst in the pre-defined modes. It means that for point and shoot results it actually gives inferior results to my Nikon Coolpix 7900 digital compact. Fine if you really set up every shot properly though. To be honest I have been a little dissapointed by this as my first foray into DSLRs.

+ very easy to use with automatic settings building up your knowledge until you're more comfortable and knowledgeable for the more artistic settings. Many Auto focus points Battery pack and its re-charging

- Downloads of photos -never managed all in one go using EOS facility either commanded from camera or computer. Given up now and extract card to reader for downloads. Extraction of flash card from its camera seating could be a lot better.

+ no more pauses more genuine shots

- silver scratches to leave black marks

+ quality of image and ease of use

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+ It's an excellent camera to handle, which is expected from Canon. The image quality is mind blowing! The anti-dust mechanism is an added bonus!

- I would like to see it weather proofed.

+ Fast. Easy to use if you're familiar with Canon. Auto white balance better than expected. High ISO speeds are very clean. Light-weight and compact but feels reasonably robust, good for those of us with small hands. In-built flash is very good.

- No spot metering options. No direct download via USB, although it is impied in the spec. This is just daft - even compact digitals do that! Image quality rating for JPG - not yet processed anything in RAW. When changing lenses its very difficult not to get your fingers all over the screen. Screen resolution is limited so it is difficult to judge image quality and select the keepers without downloading images. Most pre-set white balance options give poor results and setting your own white balance is awkward. Battery and card slots are awkward to use - battery is especially difficult to remove. Flash unit rattles when stored - disconcerting.

+ SOLID CONSTRUCTION. MAIN BUTTONS ARE CONVENIENTLY SITED. I'M FINDING MY WAY AROUND THIS CAMERA FAR MORE EASILY THAN I DID MY PREVIOUS ONE; A KONICA MINOLTA DIMAGE A1. THIS IS A REAL CAMERA WITH A REAL PEDIGREE. THE LAST CAMERA I OWNED THAT FELT "REAL" WAS MY 35mm PENTAX SPF.

- RIGHT-ANGLE VIEWFINDER AND REMOTE RELEASE WOULD BE A GREAT HELP TO ME BUT THEY ARE FAR TOO EXPENSIVE FOR ME TO JUSTIFY THE SPEND.

+ If your thinking of entering into the world of digital photography, I would recommend the Canon, the features available on this model, and the image quality are exceptional. The interchangeable lenses are a big advantage, enabling the user to have a basic point and shoot camera, and as confidence grows, experimenting with additional lenses and using various features. As with all Canon products you get what you pay for, and accessories can be costly. In my opinion the quality far outweighs the price.

- No real bad points. However, if the user is only using a camera for the odd snap shot I feel there are more suitable cameras on the market, for a fraction of the cost. This particular camera needs the user to study the instructions carefully to get the best results. Not the right camera for occasional use. this camera needs to be used regularly for best results.

+ So easy to use and great that it has similarities to my other canons, therefore quite easy to pick up and use first time. Quality and affordability is brilliant. It's a pleasure to play with.

- None so far!

+ Had to buy this only a couple of days before a trip to see polar bears in Canada (my old camera fell apart). Managed to use it with ease, in spite of not being familiar with digital cameras. Good size screen on back - can see what you've taken clearly.

- Too many features - maybe some peopla will use them, but I probably need only a tiny fraction.

+ nice to handle easy to use, excellent results

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+ fast shutter speed good flash well sized for all but the largest hands large range of lenses the mode selection wheel has both "begginer" and "advanced" sections making it easy to literally point and shoot, or equally to make use of the avanced settings. Good for those just entering the SLR world as the beginner section gets you started and then when you feel more confident you can begin to experiment.

- he camera can struggle to focus in low light conditions or on scenery with no focal point. Flash can be overpowering indoors (Though both the above are sumountable when using the advanced settings)

+ The camera is well balanced and has very good feel. It is svery straight forward to use from the outset. Menus are simple to use and the auto focus is rapid. Battery life is long, though at this price a spare battery ought to be supplied.

- Auto focus seems to err on the side of "soft". We had an unexpected total system failiure which due to the vageries of the warranty system resulted in a long repair yet having only recently purchased it the body should have been replaced automatically for the sake of peace of mind.