Creative Photography

The Festive Season Camera Grab

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I’m not sure about other parts of the world, but down here in Australia, and also back home in New Zealand, we have an annual event called the “boxing day sales”. I refer to it as an event because it’s the one day of the year that you’re either brave enough to go shopping, or smart enough to stay at home. The fact is, boxing day, the day after Christmas is when all the stores reduce their excess stock down to really cheap prices. There is also always a mad rush, and unless you really like being crowded by people, it’s a day where shopping isn’t always enjoyable. The sales often continue for a week or so following Christmas.

These sales days are historically a very good day for the sale of electronic goods, and always a hot purchase item are cameras and camera equipment. Search engine trends tend to increase this time of year as people do their research as to what camera to buy, and which to avoid.

According to Imaging-Resource, the Canon EOS 400D Rebel XTi is the top selling Digital Camera on the market right now. This 10.1 megapixel camera tops the list and retails between $500 and $700 depending where you shop.

Shawn Barnett or Imagine-Resource reviewed the XTi and in summary, had this to say:

“Ultimately, the Canon Rebel XTi is an improvement of an already superb camera — the Rebel XT — with Canon’s latest and greatest innovations to make digital SLR photography more like you remember from the film days and more versatile to boot. For my money, the greatest improvement to the XTi is the addition of the 30D’s autofocus array. More pixels, a bigger LCD, and dust reduction are welcome, but faster AF is the true benefit to the Rebel XTi, because you can get shots that you couldn’t with the XT. Now I can say that Canon’s flagship consumer camera has it where it counts: fast, accurate autofocus and the best imager you can get for the money. All the rest is gravy.”
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Rounding out the top 10 selling Digital Cameras are:

Canon EOS 400D Rebel XTi
Canon PowerShot A720 IS
Canon PowerShot A570 IS
Canon PowerShot SD1000 Digital ELPH
Nikon D40
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18
Canon PowerShot A560
Nikon D40X
Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Canon EOS 40D

Canon are dominating the market this year. With the Festive Season over, and the Post-Christmas sales in full swing, I imagine there are more than a few of these flying of the shelves.

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