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David Estes
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p.3 #1 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

5D may be thethe one for serious hobbyists. It's take three years for the other prosumer cameras to get close to the quality of a 5D.

Edited on Jan 13, 2008 at 05:44 AM

Jan 13, 2008 at 05:42 AM

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p.3 #2 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

I think the D-Rebel is certainly the most popular Canon dslr and the best selling, but I agree that the D30 is the most influential. It did make the world of the dslr attainable, or at least more attainable for a lot of people (way too expensive for me at the time it came out), and the design and layout is still present in the latest xxD bodies. Steady Hand's story above says it all.

Andy

Jan 13, 2008 at 05:53 AM

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p.3 #3 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

I voted for EOS 1D !

Long life winner, thanks my 1D

Edited on Jan 13, 2008 at 08:43 AM

Jan 13, 2008 at 08:42 AM

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p.3 #4 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

5D. cogitech's comments on the first page of this thread are right to the point.

Jan 13, 2008 at 09:07 AM

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p.3 #5 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

The 1Ds signaled the end of film after a century of domination. Runner-up is the D30 for busting open the consumer market for DSLR.

Jan 13, 2008 at 09:47 AM

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p.3 #6 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

Another vote for the 1D. This is a classical.

And despite all the talk about D30/300D/..., it silenty holds a firm 3rd place in the poll at this moment

Jan 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM

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p.3 #7 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

Even looking at the poll results, I would think that Canon should bring FF in Digital Rebel body for $1400

Edited by mfurman on Jan 13, 2008 at 08:54 AM GMT

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Jan 13, 2008 at 12:19 PM

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p.3 #8 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

cogitech wrote:
5D. The first "mainstream" FF dSLR. Still the only one, but now far more affordable. To this day, the IQ of every new camera is compared to the that of the 5D and often the 5D is still the superior camera in that respect.

First the other manufacturers simply went into denial about FF. Many of them are still in that stage, including their users. Only recently has Nikon made an attempt to compete, but still there is no direct competition. So even now it is a game of "catch up" in this market segment, with the "5D MkII" being the only thing in sight that might compete with the 5D directly.

Yup, way ahead of it's time.

The 5D was what convinced me to sell all my MF & LF gear and go digital. It will go down as a real classic.

The other leader, the 300D deserves it's place for converting millions to dslr's too.

David

Jan 13, 2008 at 12:21 PM

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p.3 #9 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

Kyle Yates wrote:
EB-1 wrote:
Flickr sounds like a typo.

Jan 13, 2008 at 02:26 PM

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p.3 #10 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

It's either the D60 or the 5D.
D60 was actually the first camera to give results that many photographers felt was equal or better than 35mm film. I know locally that is when so many of my peers changed over.
The 5D delivering better quality than the original out of reach (for many) 1D's at a fraction of the price with full frame. This was the wet dream of digital photographers everywhere.

Jan 13, 2008 at 03:03 PM

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p.3 #11 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

nathanlake wrote:
Kyle Yates wrote:
EB-1 wrote:
Flickr sounds like a typo.

Do they have actual sales data or just a plpularity contest?

EB

These sort of statistics are relatively meaningless since the site you mention wasn't even in existence when some of these cameras appeared - even if one wanted to post to the site. -- Incidentally most pros wouldn't use that type of site anyway.

cheers

-k

Please don't mis-interpret the post -- I'm certainly not having a go at "Amateiurs" Vs "Pros".

But you can't always base these sort of results on "purely nr of units sold".

For starters when new technology arrives there might only be a few units sold until manufacturing and research engineering come out with cheaper and better production costs.

Newer users can buy into "New Technology" whereas the original adopters ususally have to pay a premium and have only a limited number of options.

For example the guys reply that the D60 wasb etter --of course true --and I actually still have one = but without the D30 there wouldn't have been a D60.

I still stand by my original prognosis that "the tipping point" for Digital photography was the introduction of the D30.

All the other improvements have come from that.

Without the original D30 we wouldn't even have 5d, 1DMK 3 etc etc.
(or at least not until much later in the development cycle).

Cheers

-K

Jan 13, 2008 at 04:07 PM

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p.3 #12 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

300D for sure, made DSLRs affordable.

Jan 13, 2008 at 04:09 PM

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p.3 #13 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

If you read Luminous Landscapes review of the 10D you might change your mind. 10D was the camera that came right after the D60 and D30. It had many of the same features of its bigger Pro siblings. It was magnesium instead of polycarbonate and the price of $1499.00 was a steal. My vote goes to the 10D

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/10d.shtml

Here is the review of the 10D

Jan 13, 2008 at 06:07 PM

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Emile Gregoire wrote:
300D, first sub $1000 dSLR to hit the streets.

Agree 100%. I thought about the 1Ds as one of the first "good" FF cameras (let's not forget Kodak got there first), but the 300d broke digital SLR's open for the masses (We still have one in our home and it still gets used).

I disagree with the 5d as the primary choice; while it was an "affordable" FF step, it never did, and never will, sell in the way the 300d did.

Jan 13, 2008 at 06:20 PM

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p.3 #15 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

This poll shows that I was right in the Digital entry
Owned a 300D and now THE 5D

Ylbmessa

Jan 13, 2008 at 07:07 PM

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Agree 100%. I thought about the 1Ds as one of the first "good" FF cameras (let's not forget Kodak got there first), but the 300d broke digital SLR's open for the masses (We still have one in our home and it still gets used).

I disagree with the 5d as the primary choice; while it was an "affordable" FF step, it never did, and never will, sell in the way the 300d did.

Moreover, neither the 1Ds nor the 5D are milestones that every other manufacturer must pass. Pentax and Sony, for instance, may never create 24x36mm cameras and they may yet continue to do very well. Nikon would have done well even without a 24x36mm camera.

But they all had to respond in kind to the 300D, or they would have been forced out of the game entirely. They had no choice--the 300D influenced both the market and the manufacturers in a way that was absolutely unignorable.

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Jan 13, 2008 at 07:52 PM

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p.3 #17 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

Why are most people selecting cameras that the majority of the world has never heard of? The 1D-series means absolutely nothing to most people. They will never own one, never understand what it is capable of, and probably will die of old age never having heard of it.

The Rebel XT has done more to promote the Canon DSLR line than all other DSLRs combined.

The 1D is a pro camera that is important to professional shooters. It is like saying the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 is the most influencial automobile.

Jan 13, 2008 at 08:51 PM

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p.3 #18 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

I run a car forum that has a few

A quxick poll of users shows about 5x350D's, and 6x400D's
1 1DMk11 used by an ex photography student, and my 30D and 5D
there are also 2/3 Nikons on there including a full time newspaper pro

The majority of amateur photographer users on our forum were therefore swayed to Canon by the entry level DSLR'S 350D and 400D

Mark

Jan 14, 2008 at 12:11 AM

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p.3 #19 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

nathanlake wrote:
The 1D is a pro camera that is important to professional shooters. It is like saying the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 is the most influencial automobile.

Maybe we should make a new pole for cars. I'd have to go with the Ford Taurus or Model T.

Jan 14, 2008 at 12:16 AM

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p.3 #20 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

I can't believe the 5D is getting so many votes and yes I do own one.

Jan 14, 2008 at 12:37 AM

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p.3 #21 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

Pixel Perfect wrote:
I can't believe the 5D is getting so many votes and yes I do own one.

I guess many people go ga-ga over FF.
Although a very nice camera, to me 5D has always been a 20D hopped up with a larger imaging sensor, only recently coming finally down in price where I think it should have been to start with.....<$2k.

Jan 14, 2008 at 12:53 AM

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p.3 #22 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

Maybe we need t further define "influencial". What is being influenced? Canon's bottom line?

It would be interesting to know what the biggest contributors are to online photo sites.

Jan 14, 2008 at 01:36 AM

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Jammy Straub wrote:
Maybe we should make a new pole for cars.

It could be titled "pole position".

Jan 14, 2008 at 04:30 AM

Jim Burk
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p.3 #24 · The most influential Canon d/SLR

I was a solid film shooter, but decided to try the new "Digital Rebel", the 300D.

This was my conversion to the digital world. I progressed through a number of cameras, but the 5D was an opening into a new world. It might have been caused by switching to L series about the same time.

I was hard pressed to vote 300D or 5D, but it turned out that it hardly mattered. These were the two that redefined photography up to the present for the vast majority of serious "pro-sumers".

Edited on Jan 14, 2008 at 06:43 AM

Jan 14, 2008 at 06:41 AM

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PetKal wrote:
Pixel Perfect wrote:
I can't believe the 5D is getting so many votes and yes I do own one.

I guess many people go ga-ga over FF.
Although a very nice camera, to me 5D has always been a 20D hopped up with a larger imaging sensor, only recently coming finally down in price where I think it should have been to start with.....<$2k.

That would not have been real smart from a business perspective given that there were so many people out there willing to pay the price that they did put on it.

5D and D60 in terms of influencing the pro market.
300D for influencing the consumer market.

Jan 14, 2008 at 06:59 AM


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