Canon EOS Rebel T7i / EOS 800D review

The Canon EOS 800D / EOS Rebel T7i is a good camera for advanced beginners, but only if the price is right

Canon EOS Rebel T7i / EOS 800D review
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Digital Camera World Verdict

The features of the Canon EOS 800D (Rebel T7i in the US) offer little to complain about. It’s responsive and versatile, and the image quality is good. Physically, it’s less impressive. It’s small and light, but also feels plasticky. The price puts it in a tricky spot, even at today's levels – if you want a beginner’s camera, you don’t need to pay this much, and if you’ve got this much to spend, there are better cameras around.

Pros

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    Impressive AF performance

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    Touchscreen well implemented

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    Great image quality

Cons

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    Build a little cheap-feeling

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    Only 95% viewfinder coverage

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    No 4K video

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The Canon EOS 800D (also sold as the identical EOS Rebel T7i) is one of a pair of Canon DSLRs launched in early 2017. As well as the Rebel T7i/EOS 800D there’s also the more enthusiast-orientated EOS 77D. Both use Canon’s 24MP APS-C Dual Pixel CMOS AF sensor, and offer the same continuous shooting rate and ISO range. But where the EOS 77D offers more hands-on control for serious enthusiasts, the 800D cuts back on the complication to appeal more to novices.

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Rod Lawton
Contributor

Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com