Key Features

  • 18MP APS-C CMOS sensor
  • 9-point autofocus organization
  • 1080/30p video capture
  • Fixed 3" 920k-dot LCD
  • ISO 100-6400, expandable to 12800
  • 3 fps burst shooting
  • Wi-Fi with NFC

The Canon EOS Insubordinate T6 / 1300D is an entry-level DSLR targeted toward get-go-time ILC users and smartphone upgraders. Congenital around an 18MP APS-C sensor, the T6 offers Wi-Fi with NFC for easy photo sharing when you're out-and-about, and adds a faster processor compared to its predecessor, the Rebel T5.

Its closest competitor in the category is the Nikon D3300, which was announced in January 2014 and is getting a niggling long in the molar at this signal.

Equally per Insubordinate tradition, the T6 packages up some tech borrowed from previous-generation higher end models, and that's no bad affair. It offers a 9-point AF module, 1080/30p video and built-in Wi-Fi with NFC. Bombardment life is a very respectable 500 shots per accuse, putting information technology almost the elevation of its grade in that respect. But one of the T6's headline features isn't on the inside of the camera at all, it's written on the outside of the box: that sweet $500 toll tag with lens.

The T6 is better tuned to a beginner's needs and hits an aggressively low price point

Offering tech handed downwardly from previous generations at a very reasonable price is what the Rebel line has traditionally done best. The original Digital Rebel is but about 13 years old, and was substantially a single-dial 10D in a plastic body, priced at $1000 with kit lens - a quantum price-betoken for DSLRs at the fourth dimension. Likewise as being cheaper still, the T6 is a vastly more capable photographic camera than that pioneering Insubordinate, and better tuned to a beginner's needs.

In brusque, with the T6, Canon has gathered upward various components it had lying around on the shelf from Rebels past and put them together in an aggressively priced bundle. Smart concern move for Canon, but is it the best fashion to spend your $500? Read on.