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Unlike the Canon EOS 500D, the Canon 550D can be fitted with a battery grip to extend the photographer's shooting range and provide a vertical control interface for shooting portraits. Another lift-up cover (rubber) on the opposite side of the camera body protects the interface ports. All three lids close securely with an acceptably snug fit.
The camera body is supplied with a body cap plus the LP-E8 battery pack, LC-E8 battery charger and power cable, along with the EW-100DBIII wide strap. A rubber eyecup is fitted to the viewfinder eyepiece and USB and Stereo AV cables (AVCDC400ST) are also provided. The software comes on two disks, one the standard Canon EOS DIGITAL Solution Disk and the other containing an instruction manual for using this software.
The new camera will be offered as a body only kit, single-lens kit with the EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens and twin lens kit with the EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS and EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS lenses. Canon will also provide a Super Kit, which pairs the 550D body with the EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens and a Premium kit containing the camera body with the EF-S18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens. Prices for these kits have still to be determined.
Controls and Functions
Most of the controls and functions in the EOS 500D are replicated in the new model. In all, 14 shooting modes are supported: the standard P, Tv, Av and M modes complemented by the A-DEP and Creative Auto shooting modes and a cluster of Basic Zone selections covering scene pre-sets. These end with a Movie mode, which provides the only way into video recording
Although the autofocusing system uses the same type of TTL sensor, the 550D has nine AF points, like the EOS 50D and 5D Mark II, instead of seven like the 500D. They're arranged in a diamond pattern, with all sensitive to both horizontal and vertical details when using f/5.6 or brighter lenses. All are individually selectable for focusing precision. Face Detection is available for both normal shooting (with the viewfinder) and in Live View mode and it automatically adjusts both focus and exposure.
Sixty-three segments are used for measuring subject brightness with the metering system and the 550D supports the standard multi-pattern, centre-weighted average, partial and spot meterign modes. Sensitivity, white balance, dynamic range control, autofocusing and Picture Style are set automatically in the Basic zone modes and the evaluative metering pattern is locked in by default. Drive and flash modes are also restricted and the colour space is locked at sRGB.
In the Creative zone modes, just about all of the available functions can be adjusted - and you can select the Adobe RGB colour space if you wish to use it. Automatic image correction tools like the Auto Lighting Optimiser, Peripheral Illumination Correction and Highlight Tone Priority function are available for most shooting modes.
The exceptions include the Auto Lighting Optimiser and exposure compensation in Manual mode and the Ai Servo and Ai Focus and manual AF point selection in A-DEP mode. Program shift is blocked in the Tv, Av and M modes, while in the Portrait and Landscape modes in the Basic zone the Picture Style setting defaults to Portrait and Landscape respectively. Ai Servo AF is locked in by default in the Sports mode and the AF-assist beam can't be used with the Landscape, Sports and Flash Off modes.
Sensor and Image Processing
The sensor in the EOS 550D appears to be the same CMOS chip as in the EOS 7D and supports the highest resolution currently available in an entry-level camera. But unlike the EOS 7D, the 550D has only one DiG!C 4 processor, which is adequate for normal shooting but reduces high-speed bursts to a maximum capture rate of 3.7 frames/second.
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