Digital Camera Fiend - A Camera Review

Canon unveiled this successor to its popular 300D Digital in February 2005 just in time for the year’s large photography trade show PMA.

The 8 megapixel EOS 350D has a smaller body, refined design, DIGIC II image processor, and a new CMOS sensor. Its functions and features put it in direct competition with the Olympus E-300 and the Nikon D70.

Reviewers say the EOS 350D has excellent resolution, good color, low noise levels, excellent autofocus system, fast start-up and good continuous shooting speed.

Criticisms include a dim LCD monitor, disappointing kit lens (get the body only and buy a lens you like), and merely an average automatic white balance.

The 350D is priced at $569 for the body only.