Canon EOS Rebel T5 EF-S 18-55mm is II Digital SLR Kit (Renewed)

I moved over from film about 25 years ago, but even though I have had access to various digital cameras over the years, I still saved my "Good" photography for my Canon EOS 35mm film camera.At first, development costs drove me to online services, then, I setup a small darkroom to take care of the job myself.Now I had to make a decision; Buy a decent film scanner to make prints, or just make the move to all-digital.I purchased this camera, because I had a large investment in Canon EF lenses already. When I found out that my old EF lenses for my 35mm rig would work on these EOS digital cameras, I pulled the trigger on this unit.I am very happy with the camera, and it came with most of the important accessories. (Battery, charger, etc)The above 2 photographs were done handheld, in the poorest light I could imagine. No flash, regular LED room lighting. The picture of the camera is one I took of my latest, point and shoot camera, not the camera in this review.I am impressed. Cannot wait to get it outside, and see what sunlight can do for the pics.

This is a great little camera, and would be a fantastic choice for someone who is new to DSLR. I learned how to use 35mm SLR first, so it was an easy transition to digital.Exposure (f-stop/aperture) ISO, focus, shutter speed, and white balance are all able to be controlled manually on manual mode. At 18 megapixels, it shoots very pretty stills, and even with the included lens I can achieve a soft background.I bought this camera specifically to shoot video, and it does make a sharp and pretty image. That having been said, there are some drawbacks as this is primarily a still camera. It can only write files as large as 4gb before automatically stopping recording. I haven't found any way to make it continue without manually restarting. This is only a minor irritation and easily enough corrected. I use it as the main camera for the close-up when I video my dad's church services (www.godtel.org, any of the recent videos will have HD footage shot by this camera). Since I know when I'm going to be cutting to another angle, I just reset this one while it won't be up and problem solved.I soon hope to get better lenses to go with it, but as far as I can tell, this is the best bang for your buck for a starter DSLR with full manual controls.

Superb DSLR for the price! Great photo quality in almost any scenario / condition, long battery life, and included Canon 18-55mm Imagine Stabilization II lens works masterfully and makes this a great value package. Eye-Fi Mobi 16GB SD card works well... at least with photos -- haven't shot video yet. Be sure to use a Class 10 or UHS-1 or faster SD card if you are going to shoot video -- this will ensure a fast and smooth write process to the SD card (this is also true for pics). Not sure why cameras can't take high quality yet somewhat small PNG image files -- a max-quality JPEG isn't much smaller than a 24-bit PNG yet noticeably lower quality, as PNG is lossless compression and JPEG is lossy.Moving on... includes a stand mount on bottom. Easy to use for anyone and will feel very familiar to Canon users. Be sure to read up on how to access and utilize more advanced features -- you paid for them and it's got the capability. For us casual "photographers" wanting something better than your common Point-and-Shoot, this is it. I.E. if you take a lot of scenic photos traveling and/or family photos, do yourself a favor and take those pictures that will last forever on a nice camera like this.

This camera is just plain awesome!We upgraded from the cheaper point-and-shoot pocket cameras and I was wondering which DSLR camera to get. I mainly compared Nikon to Cannon and asked several Best Buy employees pros and cons. Basically it comes down to this:Cannon has slightly better electronics to the camera and the interface/menus seem to be a little more intuitive.Nikon has slightly better lenses.So we purchased the Rebel T5 and the battery life is excellent and has been a great entry level DSLR camera. the only downside that I have ever noticed is that this has 3 pictures continuous speed. But that was only a slight disappointment coming from an iPhone 5s that has about 10 frames per second for rapid speed pictures. But I'm completely satisfied with this camera and it takes great pictures for how we use it. As always the camera doesn't just MAKE good pictures, you have to obviously use it correctly and on the proper settings (meaning you can still get some blurry pictures if you don't pay attention)... For just coming into the DSLR camera scene myself I found the Cannon Rebel T5 to be just a great product and I will be more inclined to get another Cannon next time.