Realistically, the Canon 400D was designed to sit in between the 350D and 30D, which is Canon's way of stretching its product range to cater to an increasingly diverse consumer group. We were told that the 350D will continue to coexist with 400D in the entry-level DSLR space (with a price drop for the 350D of course).

Well, you'd be right in most cases of modeling based on ascending numbers but in the case of the 400D, it is quite the contrary. Also, Canon is the only manufacturer mentioned here that produces and designs camera components in-house, from lenses and image sensors right down to image processors.Ĭonventional wisdom will tell you that the 400D is the successor to the 350D. Hence, it's quite a different ball game of imaging performance and value comparison altogether.

The Canon 400D sits comfortably on the other side of the fence because it uses a more advanced CMOS image sensor as opposed to the CCD variants installed in the D80 and Alpha A100. The 400D may have the same pixel count and imaging flexibility as the D80 and Alpha A100 but that's really where the similarities end. While many might say that the 400D is a response to Nikon and Sony, the fact that it outguns the mid-range 30D (8.0-megapixel) with a revolutionary 10-megapixel image sensor just drives home the point that the 400D is more a natural progression than a knee-jerk reaction.

Our focus today is the new entry-level 400D DSLR from Canon. Here over at we have already featured several 10-megapixel cameras with the most recent ones being the D80 and Alpha A100 from Nikon and Sony respectively. Be it in the realm of digital SLRs or compacts, there are enough signs to tell you that the 10-megapixel camera race is on. Canon's New EOS Canon's New 'Mid-range' DSLRġ0-megapixel cameras seem to be the rage these days and we are not just strictly referring to the professional range.

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