Happy 21st Anniversary Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D

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The local Microcenter regularly ran promos like “10% off everything”* with a long list of exclusions. Then one time the sale hit and the 300D wasn’t listed in the exclusions so of course I pulled the trigger. Shot the hell out of it until some part of the shutter failed, but it kept me on Canon as my prior point and shoots were whatever seemed decent at the time. Today I’ll pick up my pre-ordered R5 mk ii from the local camera shop.
 
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I\'m a proud owner of a 300D since November 2003. It was my transition from old fully analog cameras (no autofocus or exposure settings) to modern (D)SLR. I\'m glad I got to experience the whole Canon DSLR era from the 300D to the 5D Mark IV. Not sure if I am prepared to leave this era behind and switch to full digital without optical viewfinder.
 
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I was going to buy it (first DSLR; I was transitioning from my Eos 5 and Eos 33 film SLR's), but I then found a lucky deal on a used and cheaper 10D, which appealed me more due to the rear dial I was already used to on my film cameras, and so I pulled the trigger on the bigger sister.

From that day, a long run passing from (main bodies) 20D, 5D classic, 5D II, 6D, arriving today at the R6 (actually two R6's, as I just recently swapped the backup R for a second R6, 250k shots, pretty beaten up, but works good and costed me less then the reselling price of the R).
 
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In 2015 I tried to decide between Nikon (D70?) and this Canon 300D - in these ancient DSLR times the Canon was way ahead in colors and natural rendering of the scene.
I decided to buy the EOS 20D with the great EF-S 2.8 60 Macro which performs very well on the M50 despite its 3 times larger pixel count (or 1.7x greater linear resolution, or 2 times in comparison with the 300D).
 
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It was a gateway drug for me! My wife and I justified buying it based on how much we'd spent on film and development over the previous few years. Over time the economics have definitely worked out. And the instant feedback on how ISO, SS, Aperture affects the images made us much wiser hobbyists very quickly.

I have a 13x19" print of a waterfall in Yosemite I took with that camera, framed and hanging still in my house today. Amazing, considering 45mp is still not enough to print that size. ;)

Brian
 
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I bought one in July, because I wanted to have a camera, cheap enough to look under its hood. My idea is, to disassemble it and take a look at all the parts in it. I fear that it will no longer work after I took it apart, but there might be a miracle...
It is a very honourable camera, indeed.
 
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Richard CR said:
The Canon EOS 300D is now old enough to drink in the United States.

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Happy 21st Anniversary Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D

The Canon EOS 300D is now old enough to drink in the United States. On this day 21 years ago, Canon announced the Canon Digital Rebel. It was known as the EOS Kiss Digital in Japan and EOS 300D in…
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This was my first digital camera, served me for 9 years, took endless pictures. Reaplced it with the 7D cause it broke down.
 
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f2_productions said:
I bought one in July, because I wanted to have a camera, cheap enough to look under its hood. My idea is, to disassemble it and take a look at all the parts in it. I fear that it will no longer work after I took it apart, but there might be a miracle...
It is a very honourable camera, indeed.
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Last year I disassembled myself a 6D following an online tutorial (I have manual skills, but definitely I'm not trained, especially with small and dense apparatus like a DSLR) to swap the shutter button + front dial ensemble, as the front dial lost the rubber wheel and was unusable, and the thing was working pretty well after the servicing. Now, I don't know the different level of complexity of a 300D, but if you have basic skills and the right tools, I'm pretty sure you can do it without damaging it :)

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This was my first DSLR, bought secondhand in 2011, and I would still have it if it hadn't been stolen in a burglary a few years later. I loved the images I got, even with the kit lens. It was a gateway drug, and the reason I still use a Canon camera today. Partly because of its drawbacks - for instance it was barely usable indoors at night without the flash - it pushed me to upgrade lenses and bodies. But mainly it was solid and cheap and produced pleasing results once I figured out what I was doing.
 
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