Canon and Nikon have always stood head and shoulders above the rest of the Japanese camera companies as the choice for professionals.
Today, partly thanks to the EOS 5D Mark II and the EOS Rebel T2i, Canon offers a better range of DSLRs at the professional and prosumer levels. There is no equivalent in the Nikon arsenal. The EOS 5D Mark II has a full size sensor, about 21 Megapixels, and is probably the best DSLR on the market for also shooting HD video. What’s more, you can buy it for under $2,500. That may be the star of the Canon show in many ways, but it is far from the only great camera offered by Canon. The top of the line, most expensive, pro camera designed for sports and news photographers and others who need a very rugged camera with high speed shooting, is the Canon 1Ds Mark III. The 1Ds Mark III has dual image processors to speed up the transfer of data and the frames per second attainable. This, combined with the tougher body, more durable shutter and other factors important to some professionals, brings the price you pay for the 1Ds Mark III to over $6,000.
But these high end pro and prosumer models are only a small fraction of Canon’s range of excellent SLRs. There is the EOS 7D, the EOS 50D and the popular favorite, the new Canon Rebel T2i EF-S which offers 18 Megapixel photos, full HD video and has many of the features of the 5D MII with a smaller sensor size, but at under $850 with an 18-55 lens is a fantastic prosumer DSLR and perfect for someone who wants an excellent DSLR at a very reasonable price.
All together there are ten current Canon DSLRs ranging in list price from $550 to $7,000. Canon cameras come with a vast array of accessories, every imaginable lens (about 50 different zooms and fixed focal length and specialist lenses), including thelegendary L series of superior quality lenses along with a parallel range of more modestly priced but still excellent optics. Interchangeable focusing screens, remote controls dedicated flash units and a host of other accessories make these Canon cameras, the EOS DSLR range a really great choice. But the range of top notch Canon cameras does not end with the EOS system of DSLRs. Canon also has a great range of so-called “point-and-shoot” cameras, the Powershot. These include six advanced Powershot models including the top of the line G11, the smaller but still very high quality and feature rich point and shoot cameras in the ELPH series, many of which will comfortably fit in a shirt pocket or handbag, and the low priced A-series digital cameras, all in all a total of 22 current models in the price range of about $100 to $500 and all using high quality Canon camera optics.
You cannot really go wrong with Canon cameras.
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camera companies as the choice for professionals.
Today, partly thanks to the EOS 5D Mark II and the EOS Rebel T2i, Canon offers a better range
of DSLRs at the professional and prosumer levels. There is no equivalent in the Nikon arsenal.
The EOS 5D Mark II has a full size sensor, about 21 Megapixels, and is probably the best
DSLR on the market for also shooting HD video. What’s more, you can buy it for under $2,500.
That may be the star of the Canon show in many ways, but it is far from the only great camera
offered by Canon. The top of the line, most expensive, pro camera designed for sports and
news photographers and others who need a very rugged camera with high speed shooting, is
the Canon 1Ds Mark III. The 1Ds Mark III has dual image processors to speed up the transfer of
data and the frames per second attainable. This, combined with the tougher body, more durable
shutter and other factors important to some professionals, brings the price you pay for the 1Ds
Mark III to over $6,000.
But these high end pro and prosumer models are only a small fraction of Canon’s range of
excellent SLRs. There is the EOS 7D, the EOS 50D and the popular favorite, the new Canon
Rebel T2i EF-S which offers 18 Megapixel photos, full HD video and has many of the features
of the 5D MII with a smaller sensor size, but at under $850 with an 18-55 lens is a fantastic
prosumer DSLR and perfect for someone who wants an excellent DSLR at a very reasonable
price.
All together there are ten current Canon DSLRs ranging in list price from $550 to $7,000.
Canon cameras come with a vast array of accessories, every imaginable lens (about 50
different zooms and fixed focal length and specialist lenses), including thelegendary L series
of superior quality lenses along with a parallel range of more modestly priced but still excellent
optics. Interchangeable focusing screens, remote controls dedicated flash units and a host of
other accessories make these Canon cameras, the EOS DSLR range a really great choice.
But the range of top notch Canon cameras does not end with the EOS system of DSLRs. Canon
also has a great range of so-called “point-and-shoot” cameras, the Powershot. These include
six advanced Powershot models including the top of the line G11, the smaller but still very
high quality and feature rich point and shoot cameras in the ELPH series, many of which will
comfortably fit in a shirt pocket or handbag, and the low priced A-series digital cameras, all in all
a total of 22 current models in the price range of about $100 to $500 and all using high quality
Canon camera optics.
You cannot really go wrong with Canon cameras.
