CANON EOS 250D/ REBEL SL3
£479/$549
Reflex cameras don’t have to be big. Canon’s latest DSLR is especially compact and lightweight
Weighing only 60g more than the mirrorless M50 and barely any heavier than the M5, the 250D is lightweight for a DSLR. It’s only about half the weight of the 5D Mk IV, and is impressively compact.
The outright newest camera in the group, it’s only been on sale a few months and shares the same core specs as the M50, which was launched last year. These include a 24.1Mp Dual Pixel CMOS image sensor and DIGIC 8 processor, and the same shutter speed and sensitivity ranges. Both competing cameras have the same high-res, vari-angle touchscreen and both enable 4K movie capture.
A difference between the 250D and M50 is that the DSLR has an optical rather than electronic viewfinder, of course. It gives a clear and bright view, despite only being a pentamirror rather than pentaprism unit. Unlike in the M50, the viewfinder only shows 95 per cent of the image frame.
Performance
The phase-detection AF system for viewfinder-based shooting is adequate, having only nine AF points of which just the central point is cross-type. In Live View mode, however, image sensorbased autofocus matches that of the M50, with up to 143 phasedetection points available via auto selection (3975 points manually), and without the aperture width of the lens being limited to f/5.6. The 250D’s maximum burst rate of 5fps is respectable, but only half that of the M50. When it comes to image quality, however, there’s minimal difference between the EOS 250D and M50 cameras.