I have very fond memories of the Canon EOS 750D, known in the US as the Canon Rebel EOS T6i and in Japan as the Canon EOS Kiss X8i.
You'd be forgiven for not instantly recognizing the Canon EOS 750D (or its namesakes) among the company's long and increasingly convoluted alphabet soup of model names, but trust me – this stood out as one of the best beginner cameras on the market for a number of reasons, many of which still make it worth picking up today.
For starters, with its 24.2MP APS-C sensor, the Canon EOS 750D boasted the highest resolution of any entry-level model in the company's lineup. While 24MP might be the baseline for APS-C resolution today, back when this camera launched in 2015, 18MP was the norm for a starter system.
At that time I was still doing a lot of workshops and photographic education, and one of the most common questions I'd get would be, "What camera should I start with?"
Obviously pixels aren't everything – and indeed, the Canon EOS 750D offers more than just pixels. But given the choice between a starter camera with 18MP and another with 24MP, it was pretty easy to recommend the 750D as the place to begin a photographic journey.
Resolution aside, the camera also boasted plenty of features that made it even more appealing. Canon's Hybrid CMOS AF III imbued it with phase detect autofocus, something that even some expensive cameras at the time were shy to offer. It may be hard to remember in 2026, but back in the day the leap in reliability from contrast-detect AF was a pretty big deal.
A key one for me was that the Canon EOS 750D offered WiFi connectivity, enabling it to work with Canon Camera Connect. People are quick to dump on camera company's smartphone apps, and indeed some of them are pretty dire, but I've always found Canon's to be one of the best (behind Olympus / OM System's app).
But perhaps the biggest deal with the 750D was the fact that it boasted a fully articulating rear screen, with touch controls. There's a misnomer that these kinds of "flippy screens" are only good for video, but I use them just as much for photography.
I'm certainly not shy of going prone to get a shot, but trust me – it's way easier to get a low-angle (or even a high-angle) portrait-orientation shot using an articulating screen rather than going belly-down on the ground and getting mucky!
But the Canon EOS 750D certainly catered to video as well, offering FullHD 25p capture, and it even had a microphone jack. Again, there are plenty of expensive midrange and high-end cameras that don't give you a mic jack even today – so the fact that you had all this tech on a beginner camera in 2025 really was quite special.
Today, the landscape is very different. But for an entry-level Canon camera with a flippy screen, you're looking at the Canon EOS R50 – which will cost you around $629 / £729. While it's an objectively better camera in every respect, compare that to the cost of a Canon EOS 750D / Rebel T6i – which is available from $341 at KEH or £239 at MPB.
The Canon EOS 750D was ahead of its time – so much so that, even a decade later, it's still a very respectable place to start your journey.
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