Canon Digital Rebel XT review

Since the Canon Digital Rebel / EOS-300D revolutionised the DSLR market in 2003, the company have been working hard to improve on what was and still is a very successful DSLR. In the past year several rivals from other well know brands have appeared, with the immensely successful Nikon D70 as their strongest competitor. Now that Canon have released their new Digital Rebel XT - or EOS-350D as it is called in some markets - the tables have been turned once more and it will be interesting to see how the competition will react to this.

Apart from being smaller and lighter, build quality on the Digital rebel XT has been improved and several new features have been incorporated. Canon have updated the pixel count to 8 million, using a newly developed CMOS sensor - the fourth new CMOS sensor from Canon in just 12 months - and the same DIGIC-II processor that can be found in Canon's pro and semi-pro models. The camera will be sold as a kit with Canon's EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II lens or as a body only.