Originally posted by Adam Maybe you're just under-exposing your photos through poor metering or EV compensation. You can indeed tweak sharpness, contrast, and saturation in-camera, so that when shooting JPEG, you'll have good out-of-camera shots. In RAW, obviously all this is up to you when processing the photos.
Isn't the rebel Canon's lowest-level SLR? That would be a step down if anything.
I am - if I do it manually - all depends if the light changes or not every few minutes - like outdoors when you're constantly on the the run and clouds/shade changes.
But I thought the point of digital was that it would be pretty decent for auto metering... I mean - if most of us generally agree Pentax UNDER-exposes - then why can't they just design the camera to boost the EV automatically,... instead of making us do it manually every time. I mean, if most of us already boost the EV +.3 to +1.0... why doesn't Pentax just auto-boost it in-camera a little more as part of the design and we wouldn't even know it's under-exposing.
On the contrast/saturation - yes I boost them too in-camera, but I find the images come out artificial looking or too harsh - the in-camera manual adjustments just don't tend to work so well no matter how subtle or how much I do it.
On the Rebel - the stats seem pretty good.... HD video, 18MP, etc. That's my point - the Rebel as a starter camera seems to have the K-7 beat or come close... which is a shame if that is true. I know the K-7 has a better build... but the Rebel stats do seem impressive.