Canon EOS 300d Review

On twentieth August 2003 Canon shocked many folks (not least us) once it proclaimed its $899 / €1,099 Eos 300D (Digital Rebel). This digital SLR supported the Eos 10D's very good six megapixel CMOS device and image processor in an affordable client body almost like the film EOS-300. This camera is intended to require the prosumer finish of the camera market by storm, everyone seems to be totally alert to the image quality of the Eos 10D (considered by several because the benchmark six megapixel digital SLR), so a client priced digital SLR supported a similar device is irrefutably enticing to ANyone UN agency would have antecedently thought of an 'all in one' prosumer digital cameras.

This camera is maybe the foremost basically necessary step for digital SLR's since the introduction of the Nikon D1. it'll place digital SLR's into the hands of customers (with a moderate budget) and can in all probability even have a really sturdy negative result on the $1,000 prosumer camera market. particularly considering that the Kit value which incorporates the new EF-S eighteen - fifty five millimeter (3x) lens prices simply $100 / €100 additional.

The Eos 300D's plastic body is simply one in every of the weather accustomed scale back the price of the camera, others embody the employment of a pentamirror within the optical device rather than a pentaprism, a discount of options (although I feel that abundant of this can be merely computer code crippling) and a shifting of producing from Japan to Taiwan. in addition Canon say that they need altered the assembly method of the CMOS device to cut back prices.

To give the camera additional client attractiveness Canon has conjointly replaced the Eos 10D's neutral image parameters with a brand new default set known as 'Parameter 1' that defines distinction, Saturation and Sharpness as +1. Adjustment to distinction and Saturation have a similar power because the Eos 10D, but the Eos 300D's sharpness is doubly as sturdy because the Eos 10D. so the Eos 300D's "Parameter 1" is that the same as distinction +1, Saturation +1, Sharpness +2 on the Eos 10D. The Eos 10D's 'Standard' setting is termed 'Parameter 2' on the Eos 300D.

In addition to the current the Eos 300D is that the 1st Canon digital SLR to support a brand new lens known as the EF-S (S = short back focus), this has a similar mount ANd electrical contacts as an EF lens however features a rear component which inserts additional into the camera permitting it to be nearer to the image device. The lens components may also be reduced in size because the imaging circle doesn't have to be compelled to be as giant, so EF-S lenses ought to be smaller and lighter than their thirty five millimeter equivalents. Note that EF-S lenses will solely be used on the Eos 300D (so far) as no alternative Eos camera supports the EF-S mount.