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PCMag has posted a review on the Canon EOS Digital Rebel SLR



The impressive Canon EOS Digital Rebel SLR carves out a new niche in the ever-harder-to-define prosumer digital camera market. With a street price of $900 ($1,000 with an 18- to 55-mm lens), the 6.3-megapixel Digital Rebel costs about the same as the Olympus E-20N, the Minolta DiMage 7Hi, and other prosumer cameras. But the Digital Rebel uses interchangeable lenses, a major attraction for advanced amateur and hobbyist photographers, offering buyers a carefully balanced mix of features and performance without stepping on the toes of Canon's higher-priced cameras.

The Digital Rebel even manages to steal some of the thunder from Canon's own EOS-10D digital SLR. The two cameras share much of their internal electronics, including the CMOS image sensor, DIGIC image processor chip, and even the battery pack. Also, the image quality from the two is nearly identical, but the Digital Rebel sells for about $500 less.
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