What does everyone think of white Canon cameras?

[thisiswater]

I'm a new owner of a red T5 and my daughter bought a white SL1. Features aside for a moment, what do you think of colored cameras?

[RobertTheFat]

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@thisiswater wrote:

I'm a new owner of a red T5 and my daughter bought a white SL1. Features aside for a moment, what do you think of colored cameras?

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Street photographers don't like colored cameras, because they make the photographer more conspicuous. I suspect that most other serious photographers think that colored cameras look silly. But under hot conditions in bright sunlight a white camera will heat up more slowly and probably reach a lower steady-state temperature. That's also an argument for large lenses being white or gray, a convention that Canon tends to follow.

And it can be a way of identifying otherwise identical cameras. A few years ago my wife and I each had an XTi, a model that happened to come in both black and gray. So we bought one of each so that we could tell them apart.

[ebiggs1]

Personally, cameras are black.  They always have been black. They will always be black.  Just my 2 cents because you asked and worth every penny. 

[RobertTheFat]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

Personally, cameras are black.  They always have been black. They will always be black.  Just my 2 cents because you asked and worth every penny. 

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Actually, Ernie, I believe you're old enough to remember when 35mm cameras were mostly bare metal. I remember when Nikon started offering a black version (probably of the S-3 or SP) to make it less conspicuous for street photography. They charged a bit extra for it, to cover the cost of the paint job.

I think most 35mm lenses were bare metal too. I distinctly recall that my first 135mm Nikkor telephoto was.

[ebiggs1]

Bob from Boston

"Actually, Ernie, I believe you're old enough to remember when 35mm cameras were mostly bare metal."

Yes, sir, I am and do remember.  I did pay something extra to get a Ricoh Pentax mount in black (as it should be )

All my many Canons have been black (as it should be )

IMHO, of course!  

[ScottyP]

I think a lot more of the white lenses. 😉

[TCampbell]

Technically, there is no difference between a "black" SL1 body and a "white" SL1 body -- apart from color.  The SL1 is an upgrade over a T5 in terms of features (it's positioned above the T5 in the product line-up.)

You are effectively asking a fashion question since it's really not a technical issue.  Most cameras are, of course, black.  But just about everyone has come out with colored editions for some models of their cameras.