Canon EOS Rebel T2 with 28-90 lens 35mm Film Camera

Product Rating
4.71 of 5
7 reviews

Price Range
$0 - $0

Product Description

Summary

Excellent camera for the price. This camera is extremely versitile, as it will go completely manual, or simply use it's EOS program modes and let the camera do everything, so you can just point-and-shoot. Has built in "dept-of-field" preview, and flash-on-demande button--aslo capable of 3 frames/second (3 photo shots per second). All with a huge, back-lit LCD display on the back of the camera body. The 3 factors that I found have effected picture quality on this camera (as with all other cameras) are the Shutter speed, apreture, and of course ISO speed/quality of the roll of Film you are using. These will determine your pix quality (along with the lens optic quality). At this price, the technology offered is unheard of. Take for example, the 35-zone metering system (the Canon T2 SLR uses Canon's famous CMOS sensor--found in their expensive Digital SLRs to calibrate the subject(s) you are pointing at (which automatically sets the metering/contrast system). It should also be known that the Canon T2 utilizes 7 points of "autofocus sensors" (red-dots) in the viewfinder(all individually selectable to the desired selected area where you want more focus) . When you are in manual mode, you may use these 7 auto focus "points" to "focus-lock" into the camera's "Spot Metering" system--this helps to get you perfect contrast balance between light and dark areas before you make the photo shot (helps with over and under-exposing). But what trully makes this T2 camera so remarkable is its flash system: Canon's infamous ETTL-2 flash system (Evaluating Through-The-Lens II). The ETTL-2 flash system of the Canon T2 SLR automatically pops up the built-in flash in dim-light situations and preflashes multiple burstes of flashes to help the camera set correct exposure and focus in dim lighting)--an excellent feature compared to my old Canon A2E's A-TTL flash system. The avaiable shutter speed on the Canon T2 is maximized at 1/4000--which should be fast enough to freeze almost anything (6-second drag-race cars require only 1/1500 shutter speed to be "froze" on the picture shot--and this Canon has 1/4000 available!). It should also be noted that the Canon T2 SLR has very similar specifications to it's bigger brother Canon's Elan 7N (the 7NE has "Eye-controlled Focus"). It is required that you use a EX series Canon Speedlite flash instead of the other line of flash(EZ, E, etc) to take advantage of the camera's ETTL-2 pre-flashing flash system. Also, recommended to use canon's BP-220 vertical-grip because it makes the T2 camera look more perfessional and gives it weight--and at the same time lets you use AA batteries instead of the expense C2R lithium batteries ($10) and...this makes the camera capable ot 3 Frames Per Second.

Strength

Performance and accuracy of this camera's metering and autofocus system (excellent and ultra-fast). ETTL-2 blows away my old Canon A2E's flash system, and there are endless "add-on's" for this camera--making it very capable for amatures to learn just about everything of SLRs.

Weakness

light-weight construction (plastic), but this is mainly due to its protablity (but sometimes light-weight cameras are great for traveling VS my Canon A2E (heavy on the neck). 3rd party flashes (Sunpak, etc) will not work with this camera due to it's need for a ETTL-2 capable flash.

Summary

What a nice surprise ! This little wonder does almost everything its big brother the EOS1V can do but costs only 8% as much and is super light as well. This must be one of the best photo bargains of all time and a compelling argument for staying with film. I would give this one a 6 rating for value if that were possible.

Strength

Does everything well. Fast, accurate AF even in low light, accurate metering, bright clear viewfinder, remarkable suite of features for the price including a very sophisticated flash capability.Metal lens mount, it's a real camera.

Weakness

At this price none but I wish it could do mirror lock up.