In case I haven’t told you yet, I am now the owner of a new digital camera. I bought a digital SLR, the Canon EOS 300D.

EOS 300D is the camera that revolutionized the digital SLR market last year when Canon launched it with a sub £1000 price-tag, the first digital SLR to do so! And if the reviews are to be believed, then its performance isn’t too different from the excellent Canon EOS 10D and the only thing that seems to hold the EOS 300D back is its reduced feature set. But come to think of it, this drawback is only a result of firmware crippling and with some tinkering around (only if you know what you’re doing) you can get the EOS 300D purring along like the EOS 10D. In any case, EOS 300D is a sort of a bridge for amateur photography enthusiasts like me to make the leap from the general purpose consumer/prosumer cameras to the big league of SLR cameras!

Of course, Nikon D70 ever-so-slightly edges out EOS300D in terms of performance and features. But with a price thats over 30% lower than the D70, Canon EOS 300D emerges the winner, as far as I’m concerned! So much that I bought the EOS 300D lens kit (the body with EF-S 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 lens), an extra battery (Canon BP-511) and a CF card (Lexar 512 MB). And it cost me much… much less than just the Nikon D70 lens kit!! (And I’m going to buy a Lowepro case for the camera and even then the cost will be over £100 lesser than the D70 lens kit)

I shall, of course, be putting up photos that I click with the EOS 300D, in my photo gallery soon.