Canon EOS 550D SLR With (EF-S18-55MM IS) Lens

Canon EOS 550D is the first digital single-lens reflex type camera with built-in flash in the category to which it belongs.

Its main selling points include

Display

3 inch, 1, 040, 000 dots TFT Color LCD which offers 7-level Manual brightness adjustments, and offers approximately 100% coverage.

Viewfinder

 It’s eye-level pentamirror type viewfinder, having fixed screen and quick return type mirror, and features 95% Vertical / Horizontal coverage, 95% Vertical / Horizontal magnification and 95% Vertical / Horizontal Eyepoint.   

Lens Elements

Includes EF & EF-S lenses.

Focus

It’s TTL secondary image-registration and phase detection type focus, featuring 9 AF points, EV – 0.5 – 18 (ISO 100) AF working range, AF-assist beam and focusing modes, namely, Autofocus, One-Shot AF, Al Servo AF, Al Focus AF, Manual focusing.

ISO & Shutter Speed

Offers 100 to 6400 ISO settings, which can be expanded to 12800. In other words, this camera works equally well whether you shoot in low light indoor situation or in broad daylight.

It’s electronically-controlled, focal-plane shutter that offers 30 – 1/4000 sec speed range and X-sync at 1/200 sec.

Efficiency

Owes a great deal to its

Image Sensor

It’s 22.3 x 14.9 mm, 3:2 CMOS image sensor featuring dust deletion features such as Auto, Manual, Dust Delete Data and approximately 18 megapixels camera effective pixels.

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Image Processor

It’s Canon’s proprietary cutting-edge DIGIC 4 image processor, which features

• Picture styles: Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome
• White balance: Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Light, White Fluorescent Light, Flash, Custom
• Noise reduction
• Automatic Image Brightness Correction
• Highlight Tone Priority
• Lens Peripheral Illumination Correction and
• Color Space

Live View Functions

These include

• Shooting modes: Still photo shooting and movie shooting
• Focusing: Quick mode (featuring Phase-difference detection), Live mode, Live face detection mode (featuring Contrast detection) and Manual focusing (featuring 5x / 10x magnification)
• Metering modes: Evaluating metering with the image sensor (still photos), AF point-link evaluative metering Live face detection mode (movies), Center-weighted average metering Live and quick mode (movies)
• Movie

Inter face

Includes

• Hi-Speed USB
• Audio (stereo)/video output (NTSC/PAL)
• HDMI Mini OUT Terminal
• External microphone IN terminal
• Remote control terminal and
• Eye-fi card

Power Supply

It’s supplied through LP-E8.

Thus, Canon EOS 550D is packed with features that would please with ease when it comes to photography.