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Question, /p/ - In about two months, I'm going to be getting a new camera. I currently have a Canon Powershot S3 IS. :/ What I want to know is, should I get a Canon Rebel EOS Xti or an Xsi? I don't really see the difference. Thanks in advance.
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>> Anonymous
Get a Canon 50D.
Far superior to both.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
XSi's a bit better. Slightly bigger viewfinder, live view (which I've found more useful than I'd have expected), spot metering, and 14bit instead of 12bit RAW are the big updates. If you can get a good deal on the XTi, though, it's a perfectly good camera.
>> Kilz2latex !!3htj9hFDMA4
>>256891
xtis dont have spot metering?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>256898
Nope. I never found it to be much of an issue, though, although others always derided it as LOLREBELFAIL. In general, if I had enough time to spot meter, I also had enough time to fire off a test shot and then EV compensate. I've got spot metering on my 40D now and never use it. The times I have used it, it's made me fuck up because it meters perfectly on one thing and lets the other things blow out or underexpose to hell, and the shot would've been salvageable if I'd just shot with standard evaluative metering and curved the range in RAW. And then I usually forget and leave it on spot meter and it fucks up four or five subsequent shots. Your mileage, of course, may vary--other people swear by spot metering, but presumably they spend more time in manual mode than I do.

(It does have center-weighted-average metering available, though, which is close to spot)
>> Kilz2latex !!3htj9hFDMA4
>>256903
yeah i usually use spot, but im thinking il change to center weighted. ive been trying to get a feel for when metering off the sky is a reasonable thing to do and i think spot metering doesnt offer a wide enough metering area for that.
ive been using aperture priority more recently and spot seems to do pretty well, though i have it set to underexpose by .3 stops, then i just do any brightening in PS if i need to.
>> Anonymous
>>256903
My XTi has "partial" metering. Sort of like a big spot (around 10%?) in the middle.

And like you said, you could use spot metering, or you could just use one of the other metering modes, shoot a test image, adjust exposure comp. and reshoot in like 1/2 the time.