Throwback Review: Canon Rebel 300D

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My wife and I bought one in 2004. I have a large print from it up in my house still. Eventually bought a 40D and passed this one on to a grad student my wife worked with at the time.

The weird thing is, I remember buying it before a trip we were taking, and we justified to ourselves the cost of film and development would eventually pay off the high price of the camera. I suppose that turned out to be true! I have no idea how many frames we took with it, but our previous trip to Yosemite with a Film Rebel camera we had at least a couple hundred dollars in film and development.

Brian
 
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bbasiaga said:
My wife and I bought one in 2004. I have a large print from it up in my house still. Eventually bought a 40D and passed this one on to a grad student my wife worked with at the time.

The weird thing is, I remember buying it before a trip we were taking, and we justified to ourselves the cost of film and development would eventually pay off the high price of the camera. I suppose that turned out to be true! I have no idea how many frames we took with it, but our previous trip to Yosemite with a Film Rebel camera we had at least a couple hundred dollars in film and development.

Brian
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The 40D changed everything for me, what a camera.
 
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Richard CR said:
I remember this camera, I picked it up from somewhere back when it was great to be wheeling and dealing on eBay and whatnot. I took it out to the park in Scarborough Bluffs and at least 2 of the shots from that day ended up as 20×30 prints on my wall. It's amazing what

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This was my fisrt digital camera (digital rebel) at 2003, when the price went down under 1K$. at 6M image it was enough to make prints should I want to. Used it for over 9 years until it broke down and I bought the 7D.
 
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This was my second digital camera and my first dslr. I had a lot of fun with this thing and I acquired some of my most cherished images with it. When I bought it I had full intent of shooting slide film alongside. That never happened of course.
Eventually I sold my 300d after upgrading, but I think I still have a batch of expired slide film somewhere in basement.
 
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My first digital camera when it was just known as the Digital Rebel. Used it for 10 years until I bought the 6D. What I learned was that you needed to more than double the MPs to really make a difference, as I thought I would replace this camera with the 12.2 MP 450D, but then didn't. (Yes, I know there are exceptions if you need to crop a lot). Also learned that crop cameras did certain things better for me when I bought the 6D, and then bought a crop camera to supplement the full frame, which I still do to this day (and shoot the crop cameras far more often than the FF).
 
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