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by Michael Brown on Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:58 pm

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Just read on DPReview forum that in fact, the Canon 300D is in many of the Best Buy stores.
I will be paying them a visit tomorrow morning!!

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:06 pm

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Good to know for many I'm sure. What is the asking price?

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by Michael Brown on Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:15 pm

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Still the same price as announced, but in that forum, some mentioned that if you sign up for some kind of membership at Best Buy, that they were getting the supposedly 10% off as stated in the membership.

I meant to post this in the other forum EJ, where most would see it.
You can move it if you think that is best.

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:20 pm

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I think most people looking for a digital body will know to look here. Quite often threads like this turn into a description and dialog about the merits of the camera so for future reference purposes, I think its better here.

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by Michael Brown on Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:21 pm

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Whoops, I just duplicated the same message and sent it to the other forum before I saw your message.
Oh well!

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:24 pm

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I took care of it sending anybody that enters the thread over there into this forum.

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by walkinman on Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:28 am

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Oh, this is a camera? I thought it was a new closeup filter, between the 250D and the 500D. I couldn't for the life of me figure why Best Buy would stock them.

It's an interesting concept though .. a camera that doesn't actually shoot film. Do these things really work?

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by E.J. Peiker on Sat Sep 13, 2003 11:33 am

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The North American name for the 300D is the Digital Rebel by the way.

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by sdaconsulting on Sat Sep 13, 2003 1:09 pm

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The 300D is an interesting camera to be sure. The most interesting thing for me is the new lens type it can take -- the EF-S. I suspect that eventually there will be a lot of EF-S lenses out there, designed for the 1.6x crop of the less expensive Canon dSLRs.

However, I am interested in a more robust and professional body than the 300D. Something like the 10D. Only the 10D can't use the new EF-S lenses. So I will wait for a while, I think.

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by Lillian Roberts on Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:00 pm

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sdaconsulting wrote: However, I am interested in a more robust and professional body than the 300D. Something like the 10D. Only the 10D can't use the new EF-S lenses. So I will wait for a while, I think.

I don't know about these lenses, but if they are for the EOS system they should work with all the cameras. The original Rebel, for example, would work with all the same lenses I used on my 1v and now on my 10D. Why would they make lenses that ONLY work with their sub-pro bodies?

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by E.J. Peiker on Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:33 pm

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Lillian Roberts wrote:I don't know about these lenses, but if they are for the EOS system they should work with all the cameras. The original Rebel, for example, would work with all the same lenses I used on my 1v and now on my 10D. Why would they make lenses that ONLY work with their sub-pro bodies?

Lillian, these lense do not work with full mirror design DSLR's. Currently the only camera that the EF-S lenses work with are the Digital Rebel/300D. the lenses so far announced with the EF-S moniker are low end interchangeable lenses.

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by Paul on Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:26 pm

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Given that Canon uses 3 different image sensor sizes, I would think that EF-S lenses might work well with some digital bodies and not very well with others. Or am I wrong?

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by sdaconsulting on Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:27 pm

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I strongly suspect that you can get a much better ultrawide angle lens (let's say sub-15mm) using the EF-S design constraints instead of massive retrofocus, etc. to cover the full 35mm frame with the full sized mirror clearance.

I also suspect that 1.6x is the future for Canon SLRs and that (eventually) the FF sensor goes away.

Just my guess at this point -- I could be wrong for sure.

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