Others say...

"Excellent Camera"
What can I say, the camera is wonderful. This is my first D-SLR and their are so may capabilities with this camera. I continue to learn so much. Very quick and responsive. Only side thought, is that you must purchase a extreme III sd card to handle the speed of the camera. Must have consumer camera.

"horrible Auto Focus"
I bought this camera with kit lens because of great features and small size but after first round of shots I was shocked how bad AF was. Sometimes
it is not possible to focus at all at some distance. Manual focus is much better but still not to my expectation. Camera went back to store, and I'll look probably at Nikon. As I find out on the net other users have problems with AF either[...]

also I'm a little disappointed with amazon because camera had some fingerprints on LCD and the switch was turned to ON indicating it might be returned item.
On the lens I found same scratch too.


"Great cam..."
I've had this cam for about 4 months now. It's great. Came from a Canon 20D, so though technically it's a downgrade, it's really a superior cam in terms of image quality and performance. I like the small size - the main motivation for not going with a 40D - I can shoot one-handed all day long doing street photography.

Most of the pix on my photoblog below were snapped with the XSi...

Brad
Urban photoblog: http://www.citysnaps.net/blog

"Has potencial, but its AF is not soooo good"
I bought this camera after graduating from an old Olympus C-5050 point and shoot camera. The C-5050 offered almost every DSLR feature except for bulb, which I need for my Astrophotography. After spending several years understanding the manual features of the C-5050 I thought is was time to graduate to my first REAL dslr.

After shopping around testing out various models such as the Olympus evolt, Nikon D80, and this one, the Canon XSi, I found the XSi was the best choice for the money, features and quality (as noted in all the reviews online). I thought I made an informed decision and couldn't go wrong with all the research I did.

After I got the camera out of the box and set it up I began my many adventures testing it with long exposure light painting, landscape photos, and close-up portrait photography. One thing began to emerge as I used the AF feature on the camera. I couldn't for the life of me get the thing to focus on anything past 10ft. I always had to use manual focus to get the pictures the way I wanted them. I shot in all AF modes: AI Focus, One shot and AI Servo without any luck. I studied the 9-point wide-area AF feature very closely to be sure I wasn't the cause of all my problems, but still the problem AF persisted. After taking about a 1000 actuations, I gave up. BACK TO AMAZON WITH YOU!

Although most of my photography will be using MF, there will be those times when I need to take a quick photo of something that rushes past me and I just need to pull out the camera and shoot. This issue eliminates that as a choice, which is not a trivial thing.

BTW: I tested the camera using two Canon IS lenses, the 28-135mm and the stock 18mm-55mm IS lens. Both had the same issue with focus. Below you will find two photos. One I took at short distance and the other with the oak tree at infinity using AF.
See for yourself.

After 10 days of frustration, I returned my camera to the good folks at Amazon. I really wanted this camera to work and had high expectations.

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"What an upgrade for this price!!!"
As a part-time professional photographer, this is a bargain of an upgrade even from the Canon Rebel Xti which is what I did! I thought my Xti was a great camera & it is but the Xsi is so much more! The increased image quality is worth the price alone. (See images below). Then when you add in the benefit of the improved & larger LCD, Highlight tone priority, excellent noise reduction, you have an exceptional value. Many pundits have listed some things as negatives that I feel are advantageous. Namely, the smaller size of the body seems to fit my hand very well & the light weight helps me carry it since I do a considerable amount of hiking & travel. Its easier for me to carry along with all the rest of my gear. I feel like it is a "BEST BUY" in my book. greenngold1@cox.net