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A new rebel is coming. How will it be better than the last?

Started Jan 17, 2015 | Discussions thread
quiquae Senior Member • Posts: 2,265
Re: It will never happen

Digirame wrote:

Does Canon market all Rebels as entry level? I assumed that the Canon T3 (1100D) and Canon T5 (1200D) are entry level; however the other models to me seem to be for more advanced users, people that want to go beyond a P&S camera and also have a reasonable amount of features and control to create nice photos.

It appears to depend on the market.

For example, in Japan the T3-T5 line is in the catalogue, but gets zero attention from Canon's marketing machine. Instead, Canon promoted T3i as the base entry model until it got discontinued last year, after which it shifted to SL1 and T5i. This is reflected in the sales data, in which T5 is a mere blip while SL1 and T5i fight over the top seat with Nikon's D3300. I suspect the only reason Canon even bothers to offer the T5 in Japan is to address the strange Japanese customer tendency to pick the second cheapest item on the menu rather than the cheapest one.

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