Canon EOS 50D 15.1MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only): Customer Reviews & Product Details

Once again Cannon has done it! This camera is well made, easy to use, takes breathless pictures and has unlimited resources available to teach you how to expand your horizons in digital photography. I am a
hobby photographer and have taken pictures with this camera and my Canon Digital Rebel that would rival
the best professional photographer's out there! Cannon makes it easy.

If you already have a 40D keep it! If you don't, save some money and get that instead or wait for the 60D and hope for something better.
The image quality is soft. Focus is no better than the 40D and the higher ISO (over 3200) is worthless.

The nice features (big screen, higher Megapixels) don't make up for the fact that the image quality is inferior to the 40D.
My 50D is on it's way back... and I'm glad I hadn't already sold my 40D!!

Do a search for 50D reviews and you'll see this message over and over!

Camera arrived just as advertised; new in box never opened.
Excellent camera and the 18x200 lens is perfect.
I really like this camera and I have owned alot of cameras.

I am a professional wedding photographer and purchased this camera as a backup camera in February 2009 before going to shoot a Puerto Rico wedding. I have owned Canon Rebel, Canon 20D, Canon 30D, Canon 50D, and Canon 5D MkII, and this 50D is by far the worst of all of them. I feel a little stupid for taking this long to realize that the camera quality is this awful. It is not my main camera, and when I have used it just for convenience of not having to switch lenses as often, I am ALWAYS disappointed with the picture quality. It doesn't seem to matter what the ISO is set to...ISO 100 or ISO 2000, the picture always has noise. No matter what lens I have (which I have a large collection of Canon "L" lenses), the picture is never sharp and crisp. All this time I've never paid much attention...most of the time I just thought it was user error somehow. Recently a fellow photographer friend mentioned that the Canon 50D was said to have bad reviews for the noise and picture quality...the reason being because they packed too much mega pixels into it. More pixels does NOT mean better quality on the smaller sensor cameras. I've had it too long to return now...so I'm just stuck with a crappy camera. I've actually gone back to using my 30D and 20D cameras as backups. When my budget is plump, I'm definitely splurging on another Canon 5D MkII. I love that camera so.

I purchased the Canon 50D in the spring of 2009 because I was so pleased with my 20D and thought it was time to update. It has been a major disappointment. I've shipped it to Canon for three repairs. When it works I get nice pictures, but I also get nice pictures with my 20D. In most cases the pictures taken with the 20D are sharper with much less noise. The viewfinder and LCD monitor are much nicer on the 50D compared to the 20D but picture quality is most important to me and the extras are not worth the price of this camera. If you purchase the 50D be sure to check it out carefully the first 30 days so that you can return it to Amazon if it is defective. Canon technical staff was very nice and acknowledged the problems but they have not been able to make this camera work as it should. When I requested a replacement camera I was told that is not an option under the warranty. Based on my experience, I do not believe that Canon honors their warranties and I would not recommend this camera to anyone.