What is meant by a consumer camera versus an advanced amateur or professional camera?
Canon design their cameras very carefully. Each model is aimed at a specific segment of the camera-buying market, and each model s feature list is tailored to fit that market. Naturally, Canon don t put too many advanced features into low-end cameras, because doing so would affect sales of their more profitable and expensive high-end cameras. The categories break down like this, from inexpensive (big EOS numbers) to expensive (small EOS numbers). Consumer (low-end) cameras. These are affordable cameras meant to be sold to novice (snapshot) and casual photographers, usually from shopping mall/high street camera shops, discount warehouses, etc. They are lightweight cameras with a basic feature set that have been designed to be as inexpensive as possible. This doesn t mean they re total junk – Canon design fairly decent products, on the whole – but they aren t meant to be durable enough for anything much more than casual use. To keep things simple they are also highly automated and tend t
