Canon EOS 400D Digital Camera - review
 Canon EOS 400D Digital Camera - review |
My Canon EOS 400D Digital is the happiness of 2006 release. How does it work in 2021? Is it compatible with Windows 10? I'll forgive him anything, except for one thing, even though it's not that important.
Today we will talk about photos again. Now many shoot on smartphones, throwing cameras on the far shelf of the closet. Of course, smartphones are now being made with 2-3-4 cameras, which supposedly shoot no worse.
Why allegedly? Because smartphone cameras have portrait mode, which very often blurs not exactly what you need. It's cool that modern technology has gotten to this, but looking at portraits and just photos taken in this mode, I want to say: "Mirror forever!"
Now we will talk about the Canon EOS 400D digital SLR camera. This is our second such camera, the first one was a few years ago and personally left me with good impressions. This is my first PERSONAL DSLR!
Let's get into the technical characteristics of this miracle of technology:
DSLR Type
Manufacturer Canon
Year of release 2006
Lens interchangeable lenses with EF/EF-S mount
CMOS matrix 22.2 × 14.8 mm
The pixel density is 3.1 Mp/cm2.
Compared to the Nikon D7000 camera, Canon EOS 400D digital is just a crumb and a fluff. Nikon is really big and heavy, at first I even had a little pain in my left arm.
The front of the Canon EOS 400D digital has camera control buttons: photo viewing mode, information, menu call button, up-down-right-left control buttons. And, of course, the viewfinder.
From behind, the camera looks just primitive: a zoom ring, a focus ring, a focus switch, here it is located directly on the lens, well, directly, the lens itself.
I have a macro lens with a focal length of 28-105 mm. Kind of like from a film maker. And despite his age and the presence of dust, he shoots just fine. But we still have some lens left from the old camera.
At the top of the camera there is a mode switch, a shutter release button, an on/off lever.
Software. We have a camera with some old firmware, and maybe we'll even re-flash it someday. Probably, it will be possible to shoot videos.
The camera's menu is quite primitive. Well, cho there, change the color space from sRGB to Adobe RGB, the shooting quality, turn off RAW, the photo is recorded in CR2 format, which means that you will have to convert the photo, since not every viewer and especially the editor, except PS, will open this format, a lot of things are available.
Unfortunately, I got the camera with a pocket reference book, and not with full instructions. But this is not a problem when there is Internet, you just need to find a PDF file and download it. And a pack of paper cigarettes, if necessary.
I'm ready to forgive this camera anything, but not the CF card! It has nothing to do with an SD card. But this is not a problem when there is a special wire to connect to the PC.
And, by the way, a nice bonus: despite its far from young age, the camera is compatible with Windows 10! And this is despite the fact that a card reader made at about the same time or an external hard drive is incompatible with it.
Well, now, directly, shooting. I have no complaints about her. Well, except that I took it out once in CR2 and only found it on my computer. The photo viewer refused to open it.
There was a way out: the Raw Therapy utility. There you can not only convert a photo to JPEG, but also edit it. I only needed the conversion.
OK, I converted it. I look, all the photos are yellow. It turned out there was something wrong with the white balance. I had to "pull" them through Gimp.
And to prevent such an outrage from happening again, I punished and reset all the settings to factory settings.
So, overall, the camera is very good for 2021. Although he doesn't know how to shoot videos, but it's not that important to me, but a CF card? I am ready to forgive her, otherwise I will try to buy an adapter, yes, there are such. The fact that the camera is compatible with Windows 10 is really cool!