EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR with 18-55mm STM + 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Lens Bundle (Black)

For 6 months now, I can still say I love this camera. It is my first digital single lens reflex camera that I’ve ever owned, and it is perfect. I like that it is small, lightweight, and takes beautiful high quality images. If you want to see the high quality of images it can take, you can view the 7,000+ photos on the Canon EOS 100D/EOS Rebel SL1 - Official Group right here on Flickr [...] Lots of other Amazon reviewers have listed the differences between this camera and the T5i or more high end cameras. Let’s face it. You are looking at this camera because you don’t want to haul around a big, heavy, clunky camera just to take nice photos. Your ego does not need to be defined by the size of your lens. In fact, I suggest that you just purchase the camera body alone, and buy smaller lenses as you can afford them. Using a Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens keeps your SL1 lightweight and modest. I tend to take pictures of my kids, vacation trips, and family events such as birthdays. My goal is not to look like the paparazzi when photographing. This camera is as simple as taking pictures with your phone, but provides the professional look that no camera phone can accomplish. The helpful menu features on the camera explain what each mode does which is perfect for the novice. It is easy to make quick adjustments and the creative modes are fun. I particularly enjoy the touch screen display for more intuitive selections. Remember, you want a high quality camera, that’s compact so you can take it everywhere. If you have hands the size of Shaquille O'Neal than perhaps you might want something bigger. Nearly everyone should be able to take beautiful pictures with this camera comfortably though. Try it! Buy it! You'll love it! Other suggested purchases: Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens - Awesomely small compact lens great for low lighting, blurred backgrounds, and landscapes. Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM Lens - Great for a zoom lens that's compact Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM - 18mm is good for wide angles and the 135mm is a nicer zoom than the kit lens. Canon LP-E12 Battery Pack - Always good to have a 2nd battery Lightscoop Deluxe - Great when using the on camera flash. Allows you to bounce flash off the ceiling, wall or other directions to create softer lighting. Now go take some pictures!

This is currently the best crop sensor camera you can buy right now. It's odd, because it's also one of the cheapest DSLR's Canon sells, but the nature of the game, is that Canon introduces the best technology into their more expensive lines first, the 7D in 2009, for example. The same sensor technology and advances has then been put into each successive camera, the T3i, the T4i, the 60D, etc., and finally, it has trickled down into the Eos SL1. Having used the 7D, the 60D, and the SL1, I can say the SL1's user friendliness and ease of use is up with the 7D, and indeed better than the 60D or the T2i (haven't used T4 or the new T5). Another strange thing about Canon, is they'll sometimes put really neat features into their lower end cameras to kind of see how they work out, as a test of sorts. The reason I say the SL1 is better than the 7D is the 7D had the digic 4 processor while this has the digic 5 processor. sensors being even identical, the better processor will enhance noise reduction in low light shooting, and the speed of the processor being 6 times faster adds to snappyness all around. The SL1 does indeed have a touch screen, and actually, it's very useable, close to using an iphone in touch sensitivity, and the beauty of Canon's design is, you can turn it OFF, and you can navigate all the menus without using it at all either, which is something very important to me. I don't want my nose hitting the screen to suddenly change a setting while looking through the viewfinder, or maybe i want to save that extra bit of battery life, etc. it is indeed small, and my only real beef with the SL1 is that while the whole point of it is it being small and portable as all heck, my hand wants just a little bit more depth in the grip itself. otherwise, a perfect little camera. I'm sure some third party vendor is going to come out with an extension grip, or one of those hand strap accessories to remedy this. I wear glasses, and this viewfinder will be smaller than a 5DmkIII or 7D, and again don't like my nose smashing on the screen, so, I HIGHLY recommend the EP-EX15II extender for the viewfinder. Just look it up on amazon. it makes using the viewfinder infinitely more useable, and it's a very inexpensive accessory. That being said, I think Canon has a winner on their hands. I will take the SL1 + 40mm pancake combo over the FujiX100S or even Canon's G1X, or any other compact, 4/3's, or other 'lightweight' body camera. This is the one to beat! people complain about the 'only one cross-type' sensor, but I've found the autofocus points to be speedy and smart and accurate. The only time this should even be an issue is when holding the camera vertical/portrait mode, but what I tend to do is half-press to focus the center point where I want focus, and then compose the shot with button still pressed, then push all the way to take the shot. even with 20 cross-type focus sensors, you're better off just using the center to get focus anyways. At least, that's how I shoot. One other caveat is you should get at least one STM lens for this body. The kit lens is probably good, I didn't get it, the 40mm STM is a beautiful lens, perfect wide open, so at least get one STM lens, so you can appreciate the very fast focus speed and better autofocus during video shooting. An STM on this body makes autofocus during video actually possible and useable! a feat Canon had not accomplished until now.

The camera came on sale almost $100 below the usual price. For the money I could not resist and the camera moved to the top of the list of my other choices normally cheaper than the SL1. This is my very first DSLR (or SLR for that matter) so like the proverbial old dog I have to learn new tricks. I reached the point where I got the most out of my old Canon A720IS and I have to say that the SL1 machine outperforms it in every aspect except possibly convenience. Also, I now tend to protect the SL1 and use the A720 for "dirty" jobs in the workshop or dusty environment. I use the SL1 mainly in conjunction with my light box to photograph products (mainly jewellery). Contrary to the prevailing opinion the kit lens does more than adequate job and at this stage I find no need to upgrade to macro. The ability to close the aperture well beyond what was possible before makes it much easier to get a decent depth of focus. The battery life is less than other DSLRs in its class especially using the live view but it still lasts comfortably through a shooting session unlike the A720 which was fed on AAs. Because there are so many more options available with this camera I will not pretend that I am getting the most out of it. However, each day I discover a new hack and my photos are improving (or so I would like to think!). The only issues I would like to pick at: 1) Getting the lens cap on is a bit of a kefaffle, and 2) Surely Canon could have afforded to throw in a couple of bucks' worth of a lens hood?

i used to have point and shoot, switched to dslr, This camera fits nicely in hand with nice grip. great pictures. live feed on touch screen. Auto focus is very very useful. i also bought 40mm pancake lens, and i use it 90% of time. Slow to focus, no wifi, This is cheap, small and great camera, but its still heavy and cant be put even in a big pocket. Size is only drag. I knew its big when i bought it, but cant get over the fact that its big.

Extremely good for beginners! I used it many years as a non professional camera and I even took it with me as a third camera for some contracts. It delivers just as you would expect from an entry level Rebel. At the end, very surprising for a 300$ camera. If you’re looking for your first digital cam, it’s a fair choice. The kind of camera I didn’t feel bad reselling to a friend.

Super excited to receive the camera on time! Although I was upset to have Canada post just leave it on my doorstep! There are tons of settings that I don't know how to use yet but I'm sure over time I'll learn how to use it. The TOUCH SCREEN monitor is really nice for navigating through settings. For now I'm just using auto focus/settings until I learn more

I bought it brand new without a memory card. Few months laters, I bought a memory card and I keep having this error "card cannot be accessed canon". It's sad for a new camera to start with a msg like that.I tried with many memory cards, same result. I cannot take any picture for now. Looking for a solution. Update 1: After googling, I notice that there is a common issue with canon camera with the memory card slot. I took a look at mine and there were broken pins. Unbelievable for a brand new product. Update 2: contacted canon and they reparaired it free of charge. Everything is working since then