The Canon Digital Rebel is the benchmark entry-level digital SLR. It is among the cheapest DSLR available, and its even cheaper than many prosumer digital cameras. For a relatively low-price you still obtain the main advantages of DSLRs: low-noise at high-ISO and interchangeable lenses.

The Canon Digital Rebel features every essential manual control except  metering. The main district ion between this camera and higher-end camera is its slow continuous drive. Unless the main target is sports or fashion photography, the Digital Rebel is an excellent choice. Anyone with a set of Canon lenses should seriously consider the Digital Rebel as an option. For sports photography, we recommend the more expensive Canon 20D instead. For low-light photography, we suggest the, also more expensive, Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D instead due to its higher senstitivity, lower noise and built-in Anti-Shake.

Note that this camera was recently demoted from its previous excellent rating. This is still a great camera but numerous newer models have now exceeded the performance and capabilty of the Canon Digital Rebel.