2011 Top 10 Selling Digital DSLR Cameras

Looking at the Top Selling Digital SLR cameras, the Nikon D5100 has been the number one seller for over two months. .You can bet your bottom dollar, These sales probably are not for dyed in the wool DSLR video photographers, but more likely still photographers. Nikon is first-rate when we talk about still image quality. The number 2 spot is owned by the Nikon D3100 and the Nikon D7000 is in charge of the number 3 spot. But don’t cash in your Canon chips just yet. See the rest of the list below.

Updated 6/06/2011

1. Nikon reveals new D5100 6.2-mp DSLR with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR Nikkor Zoom Lens
 The Nikon D5100 DSLR sports a slew of new and ground-breaking features targeted to give photographers more tools to help eliminate constraints on creativity and to capture astonishing HD movies and spectacular image quality. The camera includes a new super sharp 3-inch, 921,000-dot variable-angle LCD monitor which can rotate 180 degrees both horizontally and vertically, plus there's full HD (1080p) image recording that includes full-time autofocus.
Nikon D3100 DX DSLR2. Nikon D3100 - 14.2MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR Nikkor Zoom Lens - offering and its first DSLR that can record full 1080p HD videos. Successor to the popular D3000, it is built around a 14.2 CMOS sensor and a 3 inch LCD. As well as movies it gains Live View shooting, a wider ISO range ( 100-3200 expandable to 12800) and a host of small revisions. Updated Review 12/22/2010

3. Nikon D7000 - Body Only
Nikon D7000 DSLRThe Nikon D7000 is all about image quality before all else, This gives the DSLR photographer and filmmaker what Nikon calls a new class of Nikon camera.  This time Nikon didn't hold back on video recording features like they did on the D90. Plus nearly all Nikon lenses ecer made for Nikon cameras will work with the D7000, even the old non-CPU and AIS lenses. Updated Review Apr 30, 2011
4. Canon Rebel T3i / EOS 600DCanon Rebel T3i 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera and DIGIC 4 Imaging with EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens Point-and-Shoot photographers desiring to move-up to a Digital SLR camera will have fun with the T3i’s Intelligent Scene Automatic mode, the most perceptive auto mode offered in a Canon EOS Rebel camera, that provides inclusive subject analysis and optimizes settings. Canon's Vari-Angle three-inch LCD Clear View screen, which is high on the list of the most requested and sought after features for a Digital SLR camera is now an integral element of the new Canon EOS Rebel T3
5. Nikon D3000 DX 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera.

Jordi Brinkman, Product Manager for Nikon Europe says: “The D3000 dispels the view that DSLR cameras are complicated and makes taking great pictures simpler than ever before. You can really concentrate on having fun with photography and the Guide mode helps you to Best Prices for the best results with the minimum of fuss.”

Canon XS - MSRP - 10.5 megapixel Camera6. Canon XS - MSRP - 10.5 megapixel APS-C size CMOS sensor employs large microlenses over each pixel to reduce noise and enhance sensitivity up to ISO 1600. The camera also incorporates the Highlight Tone Priority and High-ISO Noise Reduction functions (previously found only on Canon's Professional Digital SLRs) and the camera is equipped with Canon's Auto Lighting Optimizer technology, which corrects image brightness and contrast automatically to prevent underexposure with backlit scenes.
7. Nikon D700016.2MP DX-Format CMOS Digital SLR with 3.0-Inch LCD and 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR ED Nikkor Lens
Canon EOS Rebel T1i first sub-$1,000 DSLR8. Canon EOS Rebel T1i Digital SLR Camera first sub-$1,000 DSLR with HD Video Canon has just announced its response to the Nikon D90, the EOS Rebel T1i. Like the D90, it offers video and costs under $1,000. Unlike the D90, the T1i produces HD video. Other features include a 15MP CMOS sensor, and several features that Canon has brought in from its big brothers, the EOS 5D Mark II and 50D. Creative Auto, 9-point autofocus, 35-zone TTL metering, evaluative metering linkable to any AF point, ISO range of 100-3200, 3.4 fps burst rate, Live View, and a 3-inch LCD monitor with pro-level 920,000 dpi resolution.
Canon Rebel T3 9. Canon Rebel T3 12.2 MP CMOS Digital SLR with 18-55mm IS II Lens and EOS HD Movie Mode (Black)  Providing photographers a lightweight, small, exchangeable lens DSLR camera featuring fun choices. The Canon T3 provides HD video capability, 12-mp resolution plus Canon’s new instructive Feature Guide, to lend a hand in educating and instructing budding photographers as they go about capturing great photos, using with the intrinsic speed and poor light image abilities of a Canon Digital SLR camera
Canon Rebel T3i / EOS 600D10. Canon Rebel T3i18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera and DIGIC 4 Imaging with EF-S 18-135mm IS f/3.5-5.6 Standard Zoom Lens
11. Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 3-inch LCD (Body Only)
12. Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR Camera.  With a host of brand new features designed to enhance eery facet of the photographic process, from still images to video, represents a whole new class of camera. Made to be the tool of choice for serious photographers and semi-professionals, the EOS 7D features an all-new 18.0-megapixel APS-C size CMOS sensor and Dual DIGIC 4 image processors, capturing tremendous images at up to ISO 12800 and speeds of up to 8 fps. The EOS 7D has a new all cross-type 19-point AF system with improved AI Servo AF subject tracking and user-selectable AF area selection modes for sharp focus no matter the situation.  

 

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