2 new entry cams ....

Ralph McKenzie wrote:

Helen wrote:

Ralph McKenzie wrote:

Labe wrote:

canon uk just announced the 2000D and 4000D £369 and £329 . Anyone short on cash can now afford a new dslr .

Just might inject some new life into the forum, yes they are basic but the 2000D has the 24mp sensor add to that the cheap 10-18,18-55 and 55-250 you get a great start for not a lot.

Here in New Zealand they seem to be badged as the 3000d and the 1500d. I'm assuming that there are different naming conventions for the southern hemisphere. Its a practise I have always hated about camera manufacturers. The same camera with differing badges really only serves to confuse us, why they dont kept it to one name only is a bit of a mystery.

I believe the same numbers apply in Australia too. Actually, I think yours make more sense than the Euro/UK numbers of EOS 2000D and 4000D - somehow they make it sound like the 4000D is the better one (far from it), whereas EOS 1500D sounds logically like the 1300D successor it is, and 3000D an obvious new direction offshoot. Much clearer.

Of course, North America has that confusing Rebel naming, and for the moment they're not getting the bargain-basement model anyway.

This practice has gone on sporadically for many years - even back in the 1970s. It is apparently a way of preventing grey marketing, or discouraging it at least.

Yup you are probably right about the grey market issue.

Not a lot of specs shown on the camera shop website here as yet, but the 1500d does look to be the successor to the 1300d with quite a bit of improvement added as well, full specs will tell us more and the 3000d is precisely the type of camera that would appeal to the absolute beginner and reminds me of what Fuji did with their XA10 model which has now been discontinued.

If the 24mp model (2000D?) has the current DPAF sensor then it will be a good little camera to own.  Even if the DPAF is disabled.