While it was the unique Canon EOS Digital Rebel (Canon EOS 300D in Europe) that was the primary sub-$1,000 digital SLR when launched in 2003, it was its successor two years later that basically kick-started the DSLR revolution for hundreds of thousands of latest rookies world wide.
The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT (Canon EOS 350D in Europe) was smaller, lighter with a lot better specs than its predecessor, bringing an inexpensive ‘interchangeable lens’ digital digicam to the beginner lots.
Before the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/EOS 350D, the digicam market was primarily making costly and larger skilled cameras. The Rebel XT was totally different – it was a funds entry-level digital SLR for customers, and helped speed up important progress within the DSLR beginner market in 2005 and all through the 2000s.
The 350D gained many upgrades beforehand ‘locked’ within the authentic Digital Rebel, together with an 8.0 megapixel CMOS sensor (up from 6.3 megapixels), producing 3456 x 2304 pixel photographs, a brand new DIGIC II picture processor, sooner power-on time of 0.2 seconds.
It may additionally shoot at 3fps for 14 JPEGs or 4 RAW photographs constantly earlier than hitting the buffer. This was very spectacular again in 2005!
Writing photographs to the CompactFlash card was thrice sooner, and an USB 2.0 connection meant higher-speed information switch to your PC.
Plus it was the world’s lightest digital SLR digicam on the time, weighing in at 485 grams. It got here in a classier black physique so it seemed extra like a correct digicam, though silver variations had been out there for many who wished one to match the 300D.
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