Canon EOS 300D

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The Canon EOS 300D, marketed in North America as the EOS Digital Rebel and in Japan as the EOS Kiss Digital, is a 6.3-megapixel entry-level digital SLR camera, initially announced on August 20, 2003 at a price point of $899 without lens, $999 with the "kit" lens. It uses Compact Flash storage. The 300D and Digital Rebel's polycarbonate bodies were originally available in silver color only, whereas the Japanese version was also available in black. Later, black versions of the 300D and Digital Rebel were also released in the US and Europe.

The 300D is often regarded as the little brother of the Canon EOS 10D, which features virtually the same CMOS image sensor and image processing chip. Interestingly, the two cameras also seem to share much of the same in-camera firmware which was demonstrated by hacking back some of the features the 300D missed compared to the 10D. See Hacking below.

The 300D was the first camera to use the Canon EF-S lens mount. Along with the 300D, the EF-S 18-55/3.5-5.6 was introduced as the kit lens, available in a USM version in Japan or as a non-USM version elsewhere.

The introduction of the 300D represents a significant milestone in photography history, as it was the first digital SLR (DSLR) to break the $1000 price barrier.

On 17th February, 2005, Canon announced the 8.0-megapixel EOS 350D (EOS Digital Rebel XT/Kiss N Digital) as the successor to the highly successful 300D.

1 Hacking
2 See also
3 External links
- 3.1 Product reviews
- 3.2 Guides

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Hacking

Because of the 300D's low price point, it has been the subject of much hacking, ranging from homemade white balance cards, flash diffusers and remote shutter controls to unofficial firmware upgrades which enable many of the features of the 10D that were disabled in the 300D, such as ISO 3200, flash exposure (FEC) control, mirror lockup, single-shot autofocus and some of its larger brother's custom functionality. These hacks are not supported by Canon and may invalidate any warranty that the camera may have.

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