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They sucked me in as a 12-year-old with an EOS 1000 kit ( body, two low-tier zoom lenses, flash & voucher for free tripod ) which came in at the same price as a second-hand camera ( possibly Olympus, can't recall now ) and 50mm lens that the other camera shop was offering!
I hammered that camera for well over a decade and when, after a lapse from photography, it came time to upgrade to digital I didn't honestly understand Nikon's range. So Canon it was.
Nearly three decades after picking-up that EOS 1000 I finally made it to the 1-series, albeit a second-hand 1D3. Three decades of lusting for the smallest number... man, they had me hooked and reeled.
So I'd say
1. Durability, even that lowest-of-the-low EOS 1000 just kept clicking. And I had a 5D that survived many cold nights left alone doing astrophotographs even though it wasn't rated for that.
2. Reasonable cost-to-benefit ratio. Though I think this is perhaps a thing of the past, given the prices they now want for non-L primes. $600 for a 35mm f/2? How would a new photographer afford that?
3. Cross-compatibility throughout the range, though I think they screwed this with EF-S.
Edited on Apr 17, 2015 at 02:15 PM · View previous versions
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