julesnjade says "Well worth the investment; amazing photos and high quality video" about Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i Digital Camera with 18-55mm lens

This is a wonderful camera and well worth its price tag. I would have expected to pay much more for this camera. My primary usage has been photographing and videotaping my children as well as nature photography.

The 15.1 megapixels allows close to professional cameras and it is also very valuable when you want to make large prints or zoom in to a small object in your photo editing software.

It feels great in your hands and I particularly like that it powers up in less than a second and fires rapidly.

This camera has a great automatic settings that allows it to take fantastic photos in the hands of a beginner as well as the ability to adjust all the various photogarphic elements in manual mode for the more advanced

Even better is that this camera has a video mode that is HD and absolutly stunned me. I had an expensive digital video recorder that could take very low quality pictures and the video was not impressive at all. While this camera takes amazing photos AND video. I was simply…

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